Well done JACK - Ruby praised for killing Oswald

[Ross Lidell]

Within four hours of Ruby's arrest on November 24, 1963, a telegram sent from La Jolla, CA, was received at the Dallas city jail in support of Jack Ruby, under the names of Hal and Pauline Collins.


That telegram supports the Warren Commission exhibit FBI 302, which names Hal Collins, Jr. as a character reference listed by Jack Ruby on a Texas liquor license application. In 1957, Hal Collin's sister, Mary Ann Collins, had married Robert L. Clark, the brother of former U.S. Attorney General and the then sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Tom C. Clark.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101122034207/http://earljones.net/pafg3510.htm#99939

Robert L. Clark was the former Dallas law partner of Maury Hughes. Tom C. Clark advised newspaper columnist Drew Pearson in 1946 that the FBI had verified the claims of James M. Ragen that Henry Crown and the Hilton Hotel chain had financial interests in syndicated racketeering activities in Chicago. Tom C. Clark also recommended that the Warren Commission appoint Henry Crown's attorney, Albert E. Jenner, Jr., to serve as assistant counsel to the commission.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1325&relPageId=28&search=clark_and%20jenner


My goodness! It is a good thing there was no collusion! The WC might have rnded up with astained reputation, if there had been some.

Good find Tom.

It demonstrates that many Americans intuitively thought that Jack Ruby killed Lee Oswald in a sense of outrage. They shared that outrage and such was their anger: They applauded him for doing what they thought of but did not have the means, opportunity or courage to do themselves.

Telegrams were great things: Cost per word so people were forced to be concise with brevity.