The Castro Diamonds, part 7

(...continued from The Castro Diamonds, part 6)

"Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald, that much is certain," began the fourth newspaper article found in the little brown box. It was the first line after the signature greeting "My Dear Reader" which began all of famed crime reporter Doris Killian's articles. This one was dated November 5th, 1964.

Why was Ruby allowed to freely wander in to the loading area of the Dallas Police Station when Oswald was being transferred? The most strict security precautions had already been announced to the public. The Dallas authorities will have you believe it is because Jack Ruby was so well known in the community and that every cop on the force knew the strip-club owner and alleged mobster. I'm not sure I appreciate what that infers about the Dallas Police, but nevertheless, it is the excuse that the officials gave for their egregious lack of security protocols on that Sunday morning. While many patriots will cheer the death of the assassin, it must be remembered that ours is a nation of due-process, and that every criminal gets his day in court. This same principle reserves the same right for the innocent. But more importantly, facts that Oswald now carries to the grave will likely never come to light, namely, facts that might point to a conspiracy funded by the Cuban Government to assassinate John F. Kennedy.

And what of Ruby? If every police officer on the Dallas force knew him, did he and Officer J.D. Tippett, the officer allegedly killed by Oswald during his escape attempt, know each other? Did Ruby know Oswald before killing him? Did Tippett and Oswald know each other? Are the reports true that Ruby, Tippett and a third man, Bernard Weisman, met together at Ruby's Carousel Strip Club three weeks before the assassination? Weisman is the fellow who placed that vicious full page anti-Kennedy advertisement in the Dallas Times Herald on the morning of the President's visit and assassination. These are big questions in the investigation my friends. Questions that were mostly unasked, definitely un-pursued, therefore unanswered, during over the three hours of tedious and sometimes incoherent testimony presented by Ruby to the Warren Commission during their proceedings. Yet Justice Warren allowed Ruby to weave and ramble around the questions asked, but never answering directly.

Yet the word-for-word transcripts of Ruby's testimony, provided to me by a trusted source close to the Warren Commission, much to their "expressed distress over premature publication," show a significant portion where he insisted that the assassination of President Kennedy had been a right-wing plot to topple the administration. Also that he (Ruby) and Justice Warren himself were targets of the plotters as well. Ruby was visibly agitated and begging Warren to remove him from Dallas, to take him to Washington where he could tell the truth in private and take him out of the reach of those locally involved. By the transcripts, it appears Justice Warren was more enthralled by the approaching lunch time than he was with Ruby's plea.

Ruby was reportedly almost frantic. It seems he was more terrified of the alleged plotters than with the prospect of capital punishment or life in federal prison. As he was being removed, Ruby shouted his final statement to the commission: "You have a lost cause, Earl Warren! You don't stand a chance. They feel about you just like they do about me, Chief Justice Warren! ... I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening ... When you leave here, I am finished, my family is finished. You won't ever see me again. I tell you that!"

As we approach November the 22nd, a one year memorial for our beloved President Kennedy, there are more questions than answers remaining. I promise, Dear Reader, to vigilantly continue my investigation. For, as most competent and unprejudiced journalists and investigators seem to believe, and President Kennedy's killers still walk among us, then the United States of America is in more serious jeopardy than any of us can express.

Always to the truth! Onward!

DK

The fifth and final newspaper article from the box was an obituary.

Dated November 10th, 1964, it read:

Famed crime reporter and television panelist Doris Margaret Killian perished two days ago when the car she was driving veered off of a local highway and into the frozen Berman Pond near her home in upstate New York. She was alone and driving the curvy road on the night of the 8th when the accident occurred.

The Berman Pond is a locally famous site for ice skating and hockey matches because of the solid ice sheet that forms in November and usually lasts the winter. Ms. Killian's vehicle crashed through the ice and came to rest on the bottom of the pond. The disturbed site was found the next morning, partially refrozen by a group of teens heading to the pond for recreation. They immediately called authorities, who began efforts to recover the car. Ms. Killian was pronounced dead at the scene. She was 52 years of age.

Funeral arrangements are still being made.

To Be Continued...