Why did they let a Patsy have a Press Conference?

[John Mytton]

.it was a parade [just for show]....

It wasn't "just for show".... It was to allow Jack Ruby the opportunity to silence Lee Oswald, but Ruby couldn't fight his way to the front of the mob of reporters to a place where he could be sure of a lethal shot.

Mr. HERNDON. "Did you have a gun with you when you went to the Friday midnight press conference at the jail?"
Mr. RUBY. "No".
Mr. HERNDON. "Is everything you told the Warren Commission the entire truth?"
Mr. RUBY. "Yes".

Shortly before Jack Ruby's death, he made the following interview.

JohnM

[Richard Smith]

The Press Conference gave Ruby his first chance to silence Oswald and the only thing Ruby could muster up was his correction about it being " The Fair Play for Cuba ". How did Ruby know that ?

So the plan was to allow Oswald to speak freely to the world press in order to silence him!  HA HA HA.  Ridiculous.  And then the kicker is that Ruby, the guy they want to silence Oswald stands toward the very back of the room and makes no apparent effort to complete this task for some inexplicable reason.  Imagine the post press conference "hotwash" of how that worked for the conspirators.  Comedy gold.  If the plan was to silence Oswald, there were golden opportunities for the DPD to do so in the TSBD and Texas Theatre.  Prisoners also die or commit suicide in custody.  No need to recruit someone to kill Oswald, spend the rest of their life in jail, and hope that person never talked.  The irony is that by being as transparent as possible in the treatment of Oswald, the DPD inadvertently created a security risk by letting the situation get out of control with the press.

[Mike Orr]

Could Ruby have been a "  Manchurian Candidate " ? He said in an interview that he could not remember  anything that happened from the time he was at the bottom of the ramp until he was wrestled down on the floor after the shooting of Oswald . What did Oswald want to tell the Warren Commission in DC if taken back to the capital that he could not tell them in Dallas ?