Elmer Gertz on Jack Ruby

[Fred Litwin]

Elmer Gertz on Jack Ruby 

Elmer Gertz was Ruby's lawyer.

"All of this tragedy might have been averted had Ruby yielded to his impulse to leave Dallas immediately after the death of Kennedy. He was persuaded by the family that he ought to remain in Dallas to take care of his sister Eva Grant, still recovering from surgery. This, incidentally, disposes of the theory that he was selected to be the silencer of Oswald. If he had gotten to his sister Eileen's home in Chicago, he could not have done in Oswald. Those who connect Ruby with a conspiracy do not explain this, or do they explain much else. Such if the nature of conspiracy nuts, demolished in this book and, I hope, in mine."

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/elmer-gertz-on-jack-ruby

[Steve M. Galbraith]

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/elmer-gertz-on-jack-ruby

Elmer Gertz on Jack Ruby 

Elmer Gertz was Ruby's lawyer.

It's "cargo cult conspiracism" where they believe, with a kind of religious fervor that can't be reasoned away (since reason didn't lead to it), that if they build a conspiracy, e.g, the CIA, the Mob, anti-Castro Cubans, the MIC, the Birchers, the Mossad, then the conspirators will show up.

[Jarrett Smith]

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/elmer-gertz-on-jack-ruby

Elmer Gertz on Jack Ruby 

Elmer Gertz was Ruby's lawyer.

The "Family" needed him in Dallas is 100% correct.

The HSCA reviewed Ruby’s phone records more closely and investigators noticed a pronounced spike in the increase in Ruby’s calls in the days and weeks leading up to the assassination. “A chronological consolidation of the telephone calls made by Ruby from the five separate business and home telephones he used uncovered a significant increase in the number of calls made in October and November 1963. The average number lept from around 25 to 35 in the months of May through September to approximately 75 in October and approximately 96 during the first 3 1/2 weeks of November.”

Many of these calls were to or received from known mobsters and union racketeers, some of whom were being investigated by RFK’s Justice Department, including Barney Barker, Dusty Miller, Lenny Patrick, Dave Yaras, Lewis McWillie, Irwin S. Weiner and Nofio Pecora.

Barney Barker was a boxer, ex-convict and “one of Hoffa’s best known associates during the McClellan Committee investigation,” when RFK was the chief counsel to that committee which “detailed Baker’s role as Hoffa’s personal liaison to various Mafia figures, as well as to a number of well-known syndicate executioners.” As counsel to the committee RFK noted that, “sometimes the mere threat of [Baker’s] presence in a room was enough to silence the men who would otherwise have opposed Hoffa’s reign.”

Dusty Miller was another Hoffa assistant and head of the Teamster’s southern conference, while Lenny Patrick was “one of the Chicago Mafia’s leading assassins and was responsible, according to Federal and State law enforcement files, for the murders of over a dozen victims of the mob.” Patrick was a capo under Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana.

Dave Yaras, like Patrick, was a childhood friend of Ruby from his old Chicago neighborhood, and “was overheard in a 1962 electronic surveillance discussing various underworld murder contracts he had carried out and one he had only recently been assigned.”

Lewis McWillie moved from Dallas to Cuba in 1958 to work in the Havana gambling casinos owned by Meyer Lansky and Santos Trafficante. Ruby visited him in Cuba on a number of occasions and returned with cash that he deposited in a Miami bank for McWillie’s boss.

Irwin Weiner was a Chicago bail bondsman and close associate of Hoffa and Giancana and was described by Jack Anderson as “the underworld’s major financial figure in the Midwest.”

Pecora was a Carlos Marcello associate whose friend Emile Bruneau bailed Oswald out of jail when he was arrested with the Cubans.

https://archive.politicalassassinations.net/2013/01/oswald-and-ruby-phone-records-rfk-jr-got-it-right/

[Fred Litwin]

when were those calls made?