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Here is a long detailed link on Ruby. It indicates contacts with Traficanti in Cuba before Castro took over. Ruby had most of his family in Chicago, big mob town. Apparently Oswald was favoring Castro who was throwing out the mob gambling interests. Probably Russia was supportive of Castro’s efforts (my thought) and Oswald came back from Russia. My sense of the whole mess is that Oswald and Ruby may both have been manipulated, unknowingly, by forces much more powerful than themselves, to do what they wanted to do anyway. I think there was more than one shooter. The book repository which Oswald shot from was owned by Brown and Root, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby

I believe there was a confluence of several major actors/groups to do what happened to JFK. There has been a lot of talk about FBI, Russia, Maffia, unions, etc. What has not been talked about much is the business powers who were behind Johnson. While JFK had increased US participation in Vietnam, he did not seem too eager to mushroom those efforts, and at the time I seem to recall hearing he wanted us to withdraw. See quotes from the site below:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/12/11/war-profiteering-from-vietnam-to-iraq/

“From 1964 into 1965, the experiment was vastly militarized. Around 23,000 troops in Vietnam by the end of 1964, by 1965 was 185,000, and then over 385,000. American force levels peaked at around 542,000. By all accounts a traditional society, southern Vietnam needed an infrastructure to receive this influx of military aid. Responsibility for building that necessary infrastructure was given over to the largest construction entity ever, the RMK-BRJ (Raymond International, Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root, and J.A. Jones Construction). Calling itself “The Vietnam Builders” and receiving highly lucrative “no bid” contracts, this consortium of private corporations was to turn southern Vietnam into a modern, integrated military installation that would enable the United States to properly defend its client. The Vietnam Builders entered into a contract with the federal government, via the U.S. Navy, as the exclusive contractor for the huge military buildup that was to come; there would be no open bidding or otherwise competitive process.”

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1569483 This link details some history of Brown and Root which morphed into Halliburton.

This article deals with Iraq but says, “Nearly 40 years ago, Halliburton faced almost identical charges over its work for the U.S. government in Vietnam — allegations of overcharging, sweetheart contracts from the White House and war profiteering. Back then, the company’s close ties to President Johnson became a liability. Today — as NPR’s John Burnett reports in the last of a three-part series — Halliburton seems to be distancing itself from its former chief executive officer, Vice President Dick Cheney.
The story of Halliburton’s ties to the White House dates back to the 1940s, when a Texas firm called Brown & Root constructed a massive dam project near Austin. The company’s founders, Herman and George Brown, won the contract to build Mansfield Dam thanks to the efforts of Johnson, who was then a Texas congressman.
After Johnson took over the Oval Office, Brown & Root won contracts for huge construction projects for the federal government. By the mid-1960s, newspaper columnists and the Republican minority in Congress began to suggest that the company’s good luck was tied to its sizable contributions to Johnson’s political campaign.
More questions were raised when a consortium of which Brown & Root was a part won a $380 million contract to build airports, bases, hospitals and other facilities for the U.S. Navy in South Vietnam. By 1967, the General Accounting Office had faulted the “Vietnam builders” — as they were known — for massive accounting lapses and allowing thefts of materials.
Brown & Root also became a target for anti-war protesters: they called the firm the embodiment of the “military-industrial complex” and denounced it for building detention cells to hold Viet Cong prisoners in South Vietnam.
Today, Brown & Root is called Kellogg, Brown & Root — a Halliburton subsidiary better known as KBR.”

Lots of corporate names here for further research and connections to this historic conspiracy story.