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explained it didn't want Oswald and Ruby arrested because of "reasons of
state" and that the department was making the request on the CIA's
behalf. 473 Henshaw's account is yet another of the significant reports which
point in the direction of undisclosed covert activities by both Ruby and
Oswald together, being carried out under the direction of the CIA.
Henshaw also wrote that Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr was
being kept under surveillance by the FBI because he had undisclosed
evidence: "The evidence includes a copy of the missing film taken moments
before Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. The film covers
Ruby's progress through the FBI and police screens guarding the entrance of
the Dallas Police headquarters. Two cameramen had been assigned by a
Dallas TV station to cover the entrance, but were ordered by federal agents to
knock off film footage which showed a high official of the Justice
Department escorting [Ruby] through the two security screens." 474
According to Henshaw, high-level federal pressure stopped Carr's
investigation after it was learned that he had an uncut copy of the entire
film. He allegedly kept a copy for himself.
There is evidence of other possible contact between Ruby and Oswald—
even in New Orleans. This evidence has never been published to this author's
knowledge.
This author received access to a private letter written on February 20,
1967 during the controversy over New Orleans District Attorney Jim
Garrison's inquiry into the assassination. The author of the letter described
the fears of his aunt, a New Orleans woman, who was a neighbor of Lee
Harvey Oswald's during his sojourn in the Crescent City. "She is terrified to
the point that she will not cooperate," he said. "She stated that her fear was
based upon the possibility that 'Garrison would get me for withholding
evidence' and the possibility that 'someone will put a bullet in my back.'
"She made the following points to me: (1) She observed Oswald having
visitors three times (a) two "Cuban looking" men visited him twice and (b) a
man and woman came and picked up Oswald one weekend. 'This man had the
same profile as pictures of Ruby,' she said. 'Every time I see a picture of
Ruby, this visitor of Oswald pops into my mind, but I am afraid to say
anything about it. I could not swear that it was Ruby, but I couldn't swear
that it wasn't.'" 475 Ruby apparently did visit New Orleans during the time
Oswald was there, ostensibly trying to find a stripper for his club. Could it
be the woman seen with the Ruby-look-alike was one of these strippers?
That Jack Ruby did indeed have ties to both the Lansky Syndicate and
to the CIA involving Cuba is, today, not in doubt. However, during the
period of the Warren Commission investigation, the official government
"investigation" preferred to look the other way. According to Ruby
biographer, Seth Kantor:
"After the Ruby trial ended, Leon Hubert and Burt Griffin, the Warren
Commission's two Ruby experts, tried to convince Commission members
in memorandums on March 19 and April 1, 1964, that there was
"substantial evidence" showing Jack Ruby had maintained unexplained