Why Was Oswald Killed?

[Walt Cakebread]

#1 tip-top arrangement for covering up an assassination---kill the accused assassin. There will be no trial to worry about.

A strategy as old as the coup d e'tat.....

[Michael Carney]

 Jerry, you are right. I read somewhere that it was an old Sicilian mafia technique; set up a patsy, kill the patsy with someone unacknowledged about the plot and eventually kill him. There is a very interesting book about Dorothy Killgallen called "Dorothy Killgallen - The reporter that knew too much" about her interviewing Jack Ruby during his trial and her going down to New Orleans digging up information. She was going to go down a second time but she was murdered before she could. The night she was murdered all of her notes about Jack Ruby went missing.

[Joffrey van de Wiel]

Jerry, you are right. I read somewhere that it was an old Sicilian mafia technique; set up a patsy, kill the patsy with someone unacknowledged about the plot and eventually kill him. There is a very interesting book about Dorothy Killgallen called "Dorothy Killgallen - The reporter that knew too much" about her interviewing Jack Ruby during his trial and her going down to New Orleans digging up information. She was going to go down a second time but she was murdered before she could. The night she was murdered all of her notes about Jack Ruby went missing.

I always was told that Ms. Kilgallen had accidentally overdosed on booze & pills, so her being murdered struck me as a weird conspiracy theory, but apparently her death is mysterious and indeed her JFK assassination files vanished. I don't know what a 'podcast' is as I was born in the Stone Age, but this one is interesting, but long:

[Joffrey van de Wiel]

Part 2 of the podcast with possible explanations for her unexpected death:

[Mike Orr]

Ruby hung out with a notorious crowd and for the lack of a better situation he was told to take out LHO before LHO had a chance to talk ! Who knows , maybe Ruby was a ' Manchurian Candidate ' ! This was not the first time for a person to be duped into being the Patsy ! It seems that Ruby was put in a no win situation for himself to be able to shoot LHO . The Warren Commission would not take Ruby back to Washington so Ruby could talk ! Ruby might have spilled the beans on what actually happened . Who knows and why was JFK buried so quick . Killed on Friday and buried on Monday . Sounds like JFK was put in the ground awfully quick .

[Michael Carney]

 I did some checking because I thought it was kind of quick after you mentioned it but found it’s not unusual to be buried within 3 days after dying. Ike, LBJ, and JFK, 3 days. McArthur, 4 days. Regan 6 days. All of them lied in state for 2 days.

[Paul May]

I believe Oswald was supposed to be murdered by his co-conspirators prior to his run-in with Tippit.

Oswald’s arrest wasn’t part of the original plan. Once he was in police custody, Jack Ruby was one of the few underworld-connected people who were able to get close enough to take him out.

Ruby wasn’t an ideal assassin but he was in debt and had Cancer...

Belief is something one has in the absence of evidence.