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‘Kennedy’s Avenger’ Review: The Assassin’s Assassin
WSJ ^ | 30 July 2021 | Edward Kosner

Posted on 08/01/2021 3:17:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

There’s a shot! Oswald has been shot! Oswald has been shot! A shot rang out . . . mass confusion here. . . . The dark stocky man with the hat on . . . put the gun right in his belly. One of the wildest scenes I have ever seen. . . . The man rushed up and jammed the gun right into Oswald’s stomach and fired one shot. Oswald was carried back in the hallway . . . The man in the fedora was Jack Ruby, the febrile strip-club owner and cop buff

On the morning of Nov. 24, 1963, Ruby, who adulated the young president and his family, had gone to a nearby Western Union office to wire $25 to one of his strippers for her rent. Afterward he noticed a crowd gathering at the ramp leading to the basement of the police building. He wandered down the ramp and into the jammed area where the cops were supposedly maintaining tight security for Oswald’s transfer to the county jail. No one stopped Ruby.

Suddenly Ruby leapt from the pack, clutching the snub-nosed .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver he always carried, and fired a single, fatal shot into Oswald’s guts. He killed Oswald, he said, to spare Jacqueline Kennedy the ordeal of having to testify at the trial of the man who’d murdered her husband. He hadn’t planned it but couldn’t control himself when he saw Oswald’s smirking face that morning. “You killed my president, you rat,” he’d screamed as he shot Oswald. “I realize it is a terrible thing I have done, and it was a stupid thing, but I was just carried away emotionally.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: jfk; oswald; ruby
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I saw this live with millions of others that morning.
1 posted on 08/01/2021 3:17:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

A shooting that would generate perhaps the most famous internet meme in history.


2 posted on 08/01/2021 3:19:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Full TXT:
https://archive.vn/NdzZV


3 posted on 08/01/2021 3:21:38 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My mom claimed that there was a film clip at first that you could see on Oswald’s face that he knew what Jack Ruby was there for. She said they only showed it once.


4 posted on 08/01/2021 3:27:35 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Me too. Decades later I am still amazed that a person could walk into that police garage, unchecked, when a high value prisoner is being transferred.


5 posted on 08/01/2021 3:27:44 PM PDT by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember metal toys in Cracker-Jacks.)
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To: SamAdams76
A shooting that would generate perhaps the most famous internet meme in history.


6 posted on 08/01/2021 3:28:14 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Beat me to it. It was a band practice gone wrong...


7 posted on 08/01/2021 3:28:51 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The only thing that is missing is Yoko Ono singing.


8 posted on 08/01/2021 3:30:34 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Got home it was on all three TV channels.


9 posted on 08/01/2021 3:30:53 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

And just like that, the story about JFK’s affair with a communist spy came to an end.


10 posted on 08/01/2021 3:30:55 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Oswald didn’t kill himself (and neither did Epstein).


12 posted on 08/01/2021 3:33:43 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Now that’s a very small stage.


13 posted on 08/01/2021 3:34:51 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: llevrok

Its a bit easier to gain such access when like Ruby, you worked for the Mob including running one of their joints in Havana, owned a strip joint in Dallas frequented by the police, could beat the girls that worked for you and never be charged for it, and bleat some nonsensical excuse for shooting Oswald that “he wanted to spare Jackie the trauma of a trial”. The excuse was accepted at face value by the media and the Warren Commission.


14 posted on 08/01/2021 3:37:00 PM PDT by laconic
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To: DUMBGRUNT

No mention of Ruby being a lifetime member of the mob?

Another tired attempt to give the stamp of approval to the deep state version fed to the deep state’s sheep.


15 posted on 08/01/2021 3:38:19 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: frogjerk

The graffiti painted on the wall next to Lee Harvey Oswald’s head is the logo for the Punk Rock band the Dead Kennedys


16 posted on 08/01/2021 3:39:01 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Levy78

There was a problem...Oswald captured alive. Ruby was well known to the cops thru corruption. He could get in to that basement. So the mob sent him in..he did his job. Oswald won’t talk and the secret is safe. There’s more, but not here. Oh and then they whacked Ruby in jail. All done nicely.


17 posted on 08/01/2021 3:44:50 PM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: llevrok

—”amazed that a person could walk into that police garage, unchecked”

Ruby took good care of his copper friends and was well known in the area.

My guess is, they just thought he wanted al look at Oswald?


18 posted on 08/01/2021 3:46:16 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: MarvinStinson

—”No mention of ...”

Pls note:
This is a short review of a book.

Pls read the book and let us know if that is so?


19 posted on 08/01/2021 3:51:00 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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