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called "reporters" from Israeli newspapers in Dallas. The Israeli connections
are there for those who wish to find them—and for those who don't.
As far as Ruby's killing of Oswald, it appears to me that it was
something that Ruby "had" to do—something he was ordered to do. He no
doubt thought that he would eventually walk away a free man.
In Final Judgment you actually suggest that Jack Ruby did not
actually die when he is reported to have died and that he actually later
went to Israel. This story seems outlandish and puts the overall
credibility of the book in doubt.
I do not say that this is true. I simply cite a source who told that story.
The story was told by a woman who knew Jack Ruby and worked with him
many years ago in San Francisco. The woman who told the story, Grace
Pratt, by all accounts was a reliable woman not known to making up such
stories and she was so afraid of what she thought she knew—that Ruby was
still alive—that she asked that the story never be repeated while she was
alive. I was frankly hesitant to publish this story, recognizing how
sensational the story is, and I went back and forth before biting the bullet
and deciding to put the story in the book. I felt that, for the record, Mrs.
Pratt's story should be told since it definitely brought in yet another
possible Israeli connection that brought the thesis of Final Judgment full
circle.
The very fact that the story has never been reported anywhere else—
despite many other bizarre JFK assassination legends that have been given
widespread circulation—actually gives Mrs. Pratt's story a certain credence.
Bear in mind that if Ruby did not die when he purportedly died—and if I
am entirely wrong and Israel had nothing to do with the JFK
assassination—it is entirely possible that Jack Ruby was secreted out of the
United States if only for humanitarian reasons. There may have been Jews
in the United States and Israel who were sympathetic to Ruby and said that
he had committed a "patriotic" act—killing the president's assassin—and
that he should be given the opportunity to start a new life. This is
completely logical. There have been many who have asked that convicted
American Jewish traitor Jonathan Pollard, who spied for Israel, be released
from prison and allowed to take up life in Israel. Why shouldn't the same
have been possible for Ruby? The idea is not that sensational.
What's more, the argument could be made that announcing Ruby's
death and allowing him to leave the country would have been justified on
the basis that it would "spare the country of the turmoil of another trial."
And Ruby was indeed scheduled to go on trial once again. I do know that
Grace Pratt did believe that she saw Jack Ruby photographed boarding a
plane for Israel and I do know that she never told the story publicly or
sought recognition. No, she was scared. So I don't discount the story.
Now it's very interesting, by the way, that after Final Judgment was
published, Beverly Oliver published a book, Nightmare in Dallas, in which