JFK visited Nashville where I saw him at Vanderbilt stadium. There are photos showing his motorcade on Nashville’s narrow Church Street in an open car and looking very exposed and vulnerable. President Jack was no coward but he was also reckless in his affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Mary Meyer, et al and his love for appearing reachable while campaigning. He admired Ian Fleming’s James Bond character and read Fleming’s books as they were published. He liked brushes with such danger. In Dallas he forbade agents from riding on the exterior steps of his Lincoln.
It appeared that the shady character of Jack Ruby gave credence to some conspiracy and an organized effort to silence Oswald. But when one looks at the details of Ruby’s life, character, his lifelong friendship with champion boxer and war hero Barney Ross, then Ruby appears less of a likely paid hit man.
By all accounts, Jack Ruby was a real nutcase, and usually go on to say absolutely the last guy in the world to be trusted for something really critically important.
Jack Ruby
Here’s an odd factoid mentioned in TC’s monologue: While in jail, Rub was visited by a psychiatrist, who on leaving the jail declared Ruby insane.
Back in those days psychiatrists were something of a rare bird, not a dime a dozen like today. Previously, Ruby had appeared normal and sane to all other interviewers. So what changed or did it.
It turned out that the psychiatrist was no ordinary psychiatrist as revealed in an NYT obit. He specialized in ‘mind’ control, drugs, hypnosis and other methods of altering a personality. Why him? What interest would such a specialist have in Ruby? How would he even get permission to interviews him?
Answer: he worked for the CIA.
More questions. Than answers.