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crime contained in the Oswald as Mob Patsy works, but emphasized the importance of
Ruby in the Dallas crime hierarchy and his connections to the city’s elite, including
oilman Clint Murchison.
Scott often employed a tactic of connecting a series of names to each other before
winding up with someone or something tied to the assassination. The connections seem
tenuous in many cases. For example, “We learn however from Lieutenant George
Butler’s note of the 1947 Paul Jones attempt to bribe Sheriff Guthrie that the top oilmen-
gamblers who (it was hoped) would bring big money to the gambling tables were Clint
Murchison, his friend Toddie Lee Wynne, and Ray Ryan. These are presumably Clint
Murchison, Sr., who was Hoover’s host at the Del Charro, and Toddie Lee Wynne, Sr.,
father of Toddie Lee Wynne, Jr., chairman of the board of the Great Southwest
Corporation, which…supplied a manager to handle the affairs and testimony of Marina
Oswald.” 644
Oswald, for Scott, was a less interesting figure than Ruby. He described his
connections to the organized crime and political structure of New Orleans, where he was
born. Scott outlined many of the connections the House Assassinations Committee found
between Oswald and his family and organized crime in New Orleans, but accused the
congressmen of overlooking the ties between the Democratic Party establishment there
and the mob. According to Scott, “in New Orleans, as in Chicago, criminal power and
local politics had been deeply intertwined for decades.” 645 As a Marine, Oswald became
644 Scott, 206.
645 Scott, 77.
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