Final_Judgment

755 Odds & Ends [657]
"Just Another Coincidence" Involving Israel?
Jack Ruby's Rabbi and the Warren Commission.
It turns out Jack Ruby's rabbi, Hillel Silverman, was the key "source"
for the Warren Commission's final judgment that Jack Ruby was a simple
nightclub keeper—just a bit crazy—who killed Lee Oswald out of
sympathy for JFK's family. And we now know why the Warren
Commission took Silverman's assurances to heart.
The story of the Silverman-Warren Commission connection is told by
Dave Reitzes who was hailed by the prestigious Jewish Forward, on Nov.
28, 2003, for helping put down what Forward called "zany" theories on the
JFK assassination, describing Final Judgment's theory—although not
mentioning this book by name—as being "more sinister" than any other.
On his website at jfk-online.com, Reitzes cites pages 35-37 of Final
Disclosure, the memoirs of top Warren Commission attorney David Belin,
the leading commission advocate of the theory that Oswald was a "lone
nut" and that Ruby was not part of a conspiracy. According to Reitzes:
Rabbi Silverman was one of Ruby's closet confidantes
following his arrest, first meeting with him on November
25, then roughly once or twice a week thereafter until
Silverman moved to Los Angeles in July 1964.
Silverman happened also to be friendly with Warren
Commission junior counsel David W. Belin. The two had
met during the summer of 1963, during a study mission to
Israel.
On one of Belin's first trips to Dallas on behalf of the
commission, he asked Silverman his opinion as to whether
Ruby was part of a conspiracy. 'Jack Ruby is absolutely
innocent of any conspiracy,' Silverman unhesitatingly
replied. [Emphasis added by Michael Collins Piper.]
This "oddity" does not "prove" anything. HOWEVER: what are the
odds that during a period when few Americans were traveling to Israel that a
rabbi from Dallas and a Jewish lawyer from Des Moines should end up
together in Israel on a "study mission" and that within six months one of the
rabbi's congregants would murder the alleged assassin of a U.S. president
and that one of the lawyers investigating that crime—out of all the lawyers,
not to mention all the Jewish lawyers, in the country—would be that Des
Moines lawyer?
Critics will say that raising this question is "anti-Semitic," but the fact
is that nobody has ever even dared (because of the fear of being called
"anti-Semitic") to point out the obvious conflict of interest for David Belin
due to his pre-assassination religious relationship with the personal
religious counselor of one of the key figures in the JFK controversy.