Jack Ruby on LBJ and the Kennedy murder

Jack Ruby (Oswald’s assassin) makes a statement to reporters after he has been permitted a new trial. He says :
Everything pertaining to what’s happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts, of what occurred, my motives. The people had , that had so much to gain and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I’m in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

Reporter : Are these people in very high positions Jack ??

Jack : Yes.

Why has nobody seen this footage at the time it was shot? Because certain people with enough power didn’t want you to see it. Just like they didn’t want you to see the Zapruder film. Imagine what would have happened if the american public was shown just both of these films.

Other quotes of Jack Ruby that are on film:
“Gentlemen, I want to tell the truth, but I cannot tell it here. If you want a fair shake out of me, you have to take me to Washington”

“When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy ” Asked if he would explain it again Ruby continued “Well the answer is the man in office now” – that man was Lyndon Johnson.

 Ruby fearing for his life, and the life of his family told the Warren commission….”Well, you won’t see me again. I tell you that a whole new form of government is going to take over the country, and I know I won’t live to see you another time”

It reads: “you must believe me that I know what is taking place, so please with all my heart, you must believe me, because I am counting on you to save this country a lot of blood-shed. As soon as you get out you must read Texan looks at Lyndon (A Texan Looks at Lyndon by J. Evetts Haley) , and it may open your eyes to a lot of things. This man is a Nazi in the worst order.”

Further on in this letter Ruby writes: … isn’t it strange that Oswald who hasn’t worked a lick most of his life, should be fortunate enough to get a job at the Book Building two weeks before the president himself didn’t know as to when he was to visit Dallas, now where would a jerk like Oswald get the information that the president was coming to Dallas? Only one person could have had that information, and that man was Johnson who knew weeks in advance as to what was going to happen, because he is the one who was going to arrange the trip for the president, this had been planned long before the president himself knew about, so you can figure that one out. The only one who gained by the shooting of the president was Johnson, and he was in a car in the rear and safe when the shooting took place. What would the Russians, Castro or anyone else have to gain by eliminating the president? If Johnson was so heartbroken over Kennedy, why didn’t he do something for Robert Kennedy? All he did was snub him.

This letter and Ruby’s remarks to the press, suggest that Ruby became only later convinced that Johnson was a power behind the scenes. During his Warren testimony he shows no inkling of this conviction.

Jack Ruby letter, circa 1965, smuggled from jail and indicting Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination

Oh the way I fucked up this world who would ever dream that the mother fucker was a Nazi, and found me as the perfect setup for a frame. It was perfect for them. Remember they had the president killed, and now with me in the picture, they’ll make it look as though Castro or the Russians had it done. Anyone in their right mind would know that the Russians or Castro would never do something like that…it would only create worse hostilities. After it was done they would only put another man in office to take Kennedy’s place. Remember the only one who had all to gain was Johnson himself. Figure that out. Remember all points. Also about Oswald who has been a drifter all of his life, suddenly decided to go to work in the book-binding building weeks before Kennedy himself knew he was coming to Dallas…where did Oswald get the information that far in advance…It had to be someone pretty high in Washington who had made up Kennedy’s mind about the trip. All that was planned by Johnson, no one would question the president about a conspiracy…Johnson could commit any crime he cared to because he knew he was going to be the president and have all the power he needed.

The shooting at the ex-general’s [Edwin Walker] home was to make believe…what a crackpot he [Oswald] is. That to fool the people into thinking that there wasn’t any motive in killing the president, and it was done by a crazy person…I still don’t believe that a man would deliberately go out and kill the president, it doesn’t sound right to me. Some one had put him [Oswald] up to it, and they no doubt promised him some pretty prize, that is why he made such a desperate effort to get away, to go so far as killing the policeman [J .D. Tippett]. I have [at] the most one or two days left to live…If you hear a lot of horn-blowing it will be for me, they will want my blood!…take my advice and leave the US.” In fine condition, with a central vertical fold to each page and a couple tiny stains to one page. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original recipient, as well as two letters related to the piece from Charles Hamilton, who initially sold it in 1966.

Sincerely,