Quote:<a class="bbc_url" href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby</a>


I've read up on jack ruby.


The purported reason he killed Oswald was to spare the fragile Jackie Kennedy, who sat next to her husband whilst he was shot and killed through the head, who wore her blood-stained coat the rest of that day to "show them what they did to my Jack, " from a trial.


Like, really? And then he's dead before his trial? Are you kidding?


Edit: lbj is the only prez I've heard of who had a penchant for swinging his 'Johnson' around and asking woman if they had ever seen sonething so big. Or peeling on a secret serviceman's leg and saying it's "his prerogative." Or outdoing JFK on the "private secretary" thing.


The obvious motive is becoming the most powerful man in the world and ramping up nam for his military industrial complex buddies.

 

Let me debunk another myth here.  Ruby was actually convicted and sentenced to death.  He filed for a re-trial and it was granted but he died from an embolism due to lung cancer before it could take place.  I guess you could make the argument that the CIA or [insert your favorite Illuminati here] gave him cancer but on balance that's very unlikely.  Most conspiracy theories are rooted in the circumstances that seem difficult to explain on the surface but once understood (i.e. "magic bullet", "Oswald's rifle inaccuracy", "Oswald spying for the CIA") like the magician's trick, they evaporate.

 

Because there are odd things that we may never have a rational explanation for, human nature latches on to the idea of the grand conspiracy.  It's a fairly well understood psychological phenomena.  Same thing with alien abduction scenarios, the existence of Atlantis, et al.  The idea that the president of the US could have been taken down by a single nut, acting alone is too difficult emotionally for many people to accept and so the search for "secret shadow groups" and "conspiracies within the military industrial complex" continues unabated.

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