I think we all know that there is far more to the JFK assassination than most people will ever know, although the event never really seems to die, does it? It seems like we find out more and more about it every year. Of course, those behind the assassination continued to fight to hide the truth until the day they themselves died…and it didn’t matter anymore…at least not to them. Nevertheless, there are people, historians and those who are just curious enough to wonder, who simply don’t buy the crazy story that was presented to the world. I’m not sure many people remember or know about the JFK assassination these days. The older crowd does, of course, but how many bought the lie we were told, and how many believe differently, whether we can ever prove it or not.

On November 22, 1963, John F Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. As the story goes, one man, Lee Harvey Oswald manage to do the impossible. Per the Warren Commission’s single-bullet theory, one bullet caused Kennedy’s nonfatal wound and Connally’s wounds. Conspiracy theorists, neglecting that Kennedy was not directly behind Connally, claim that the trajectory required a “magic bullet.” Secret Service agent Clint Hill was on the running board of the car right behind Kennedy’s limousine. He told the Warren Commission he heard a shot, jumped into the street, and ran to reach the limousine to protect Kennedy. As he got to the Lincoln, he said that he heard the fatal headshot which incredibly came about five seconds after the first shot. Right after that, Mrs Kennedy started climbing onto the trunk, but later she didn’t remember doing it. Hill thought she might have been trying to retrieve a piece of Kennedy’s skull. It’s hard to say. He leapt onto the limousine’s bumper and held on as it sped out of Dealey Plaza toward Parkland Memorial Hospital. Once Mrs Kennedy returned to her seat, Governor and Mrs Connally heard her repeating: “They have killed my husband. I have his brains in my hand.” It was said that Oswald fired three shots and the third shot was the fatal one. meaning that he fired a rifle three times in five second. I just don’t buy that story.

I never could figure out why Jack Ruby decided to kill Oswald. I’ve not found any information that indicated that he was a particularly huge fan of JFK, but maybe he was. Still, even given his volatile temper, killing Oswald wasn’t really in his character. Many people thought he knew that he had Cancer, and the killing was a job to leave something for his family. It’s hard to say. Ruby was convicted for the murder and sentenced to death. Due to some “technicalities” the case was appealed, and then, while waiting for a new trial which was set for February 1967 in Wichita Falls, Texas, Ruby was hospitalized at Parkland on December 9, 1966, with pneumonia and was soon diagnosed with cancer in his liver, lungs, and brain. His health quickly worsened. An armed guard stood outside his room, though family and friends could visit. On December 16, Earl Ruby, with one of his brother’s lawyers, smuggled a tape recorder in a briefcase into Jack’s room to capture an interview about Oswald’s murder. Ruby insisted he entered the basement via the ramp, killed Oswald out of grief over the assassination, and had never met him before. According to an Associated Press source, Ruby made a final statement from his hospital bed on December 19, 1967, claiming he acted alone: “There is nothing to hide; there was no one else.” Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967, at Parkland Hospital. He was buried beside his parents in the Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois. I could be wrong, but given so much conspiracy, I think it Ruby could have been poisoned, because of the speed with which everything happened. It reminds me of the person who commits suicide by shooting himself in the head…twice. A little far-fetched. You, of course, are welcome to believe what you like. This is my opinion.