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"Ruby also described 'the Fox brothers' as 'the greatest that have been
expelled from Cuba,' and said they were then living in Miami. Meyer and
Jake Lansky were known as the most prominent Syndicate men expelled by
the Castro government and were in fact then living in Miami. Ruby said he
thought one of the 'Fox brothers' first names may have been Martin.
"Ruby further testified that one of the 'Fox brothers' had later visited
him in Dallas, accompanied by Lewis McWillie. Ruby claimed that they
had dined at the Dallas airport together. Ruby further testified that Fox and
McWillie had also subsequently dropped by his nightclub, where they posed
for photographs with him. Ruby later took the photos with him when he
visited McWillie in Cuba:
"'Evidently the Foxes were in exile at that time, because when I went
to visit McWillie . . . [Cuban officials] looked through my luggage and
they saw a photograph of Mr. Fox and his wife.
"'They didn't interrogate but they went through everything and held me
up for hours . . . Evidently in my ignorance I didn't realize I was bringing a
picture [of someone] they knew was a bitter enemy." 443
There is some question, however, as to whether or not the "Fox
brothers" were, in fact, the Lansky brothers. Ruby biographer Seth Kantor
notes that there were brothers named Martin and Pedro Fox who were Cuban
nationals and involved in the Tropicana. (Nonetheless, the Tropicana was
owned by the Lansky brothers.)
Kantor writes: "The significance of all this marching up and down the
hill about the Fox brothers is that Ruby was a rational man at the time of
the Warren Commission's June 7, 1964 interview with him. He was telling
them the truth, and begged to be taken out of Texas so he could tell them
more. But no one listened, on one of the sorriest days in the Warren
Commission's history.” 444
It is interesting to note that at the time of the JFK assassination
Ruby's good friend McWillie was working at the Thunderbird Hotel in Las
Vegas, owned in part by Meyer Lansky and his brother Jake. As Peter Dale
Scott succinctly summarizes it: "In other words, McWillie was working for
the Lanskys when Ruby made seven phone calls to him in 1963.” 445 These
were among the phone calls made to organized crime-related figures that
authors David Scheim and John W. Davis and G. Robert Blakey have used
to promote the theory that "The Mafia Killed JFK."
Ruby did indeed call some seven or eight mob-linked individuals in the
period just before the JFK assassination, but, according to Peter Dale Scott,
"only one of these was Italian." 446 Yet, as Scott points out, Blakey's House
Assassinations Committee preferred to cast Ruby as a "Mafia" figure and to
ignore his positioning in the Lansky sphere. "Only from officials," Scott
notes wryly, "can logic like this be encountered." 447 In general Scott
describes this as a form of "conscious bias, or what might be called
contrived bias, the purpose of which is to deceive others. " 448
Whatever the direct link between Lansky and Ruby in this regard,
however, JFK assassination researcher Jim Marrs states flatly that Ruby had