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Interesting. I've been reading The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, about Dorothy Kilgallen. For those who don't know (I didn't until recently), Dorothy was an investigative reporter and friend of JFK. She died under suspicious circumstances a couple of years after the JFK assassination. Just before her death, Dorothy told a friend that she was about to publish a manuscript that would blow the lid off the JFK investigation. After Dorothy's death, the manuscript disappeared.Norman Mailer, in his 1995 book, "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery", comes to some interesting conclusions, or alternate possibilities.
He does an in depth study of Oswald, his personality, background, etc. and tends to think that it is most likely that Oswald committed the assassination on his own, although he does not totally discount the possibility of other shooters ALSO being present and firing.
Mailer does not buy the Ruby story about being personally distraught, and killing Oswald on impulse.
Mailer suggests that high-ups in the Mob may have actually put out a contract on JFK, and in such a way that there were various "layers" or "levels" of persons in between themselves and whoever would actually do the hit. They would have left all the planning up to professional operatives who would pick the time and place on their own.
On 22 November 1963, upon hearing that JFK had, in fact, been killed and that Oswald had been captured alive and was claiming to be a "Patsy", the Mob bosses, could have concluded that it WAS their hit and that Oswald needed to be silenced.
Who better to be able to get into the Dallas Police station and silence him than one of their own, Jack Ruby? Although he was not a professional hit man, he did have a lot of connections in Dallas and knew many of the cops and other officials.
It is a well written and very interesting book.
Interesting. I've been reading The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, about Dorothy Kilgallen. ...
... I became interested in Dorothy and her connection with JFK after watching some YouTube videos. I don't know that we'll ever find out the whole truth behind the JFK assassination because so much evidence has been lost and so many people close to the investigation died soon afterwards.
I am from Dallas. I was in college when this happened. Many of my friends and classmates were there to see the President of the United States. For me, I consider it a life time memory. One thing that amazed me and I thought suspicious was how quickly they found Oswald. It was as if they knew who they were looking for and where he was going. Dallas is a big city and there were thousands of people there for the parade. How did they identify him so quickly and know he took a bus to Oak Cliff when he could of gone anywhere??
I'm not saying I don't believe Oswald took a shot at JFK, but I'm not convinced he wasn't just a distraction in the assassination plan. I can say from personal knowledge, 3 hours after the event, Dallas streets were wide open and there were no road blocks, no yellow tape at the school book depository, and not an abundance of police presence. ...