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Before relating the story itself, a few words should be mentioned about
the credibility of the source.
The original source was a now deceased Idaho woman named Grace Pratt
who related the story to a friend (now living in Oregon) whose name must
remain anonymous. This author has spoken with the Oregon man, an
elderly retiree, and has concluded that he believes very strongly in the
reliability of Mrs. Pratt. He has provided this author with a written
summary of what Mrs. Pratt told him about her connection with Jack
Ruby. The memorandum reads—in pertinent part—as follows:
"In Idaho in the 1960's I met George and Grace Pratt, who had moved to
Nampa from California upon retirement. The Pratts became very good friends
of mine. George had worked in the Navy yard and Grace had cooked for many
years in many of the big restaurants in San Francisco.
"For a longtime she had worked for 'Tiny's.' Tiny's had a side-by-side
restaurant and bar with a door between, opening into the anteroom between
the dining room and the kitchen. The bar was run by Jack Ruby. He also
had charge of the ladies in the basement. The bar was a place for the
`underworld' to meet. After the dinner rush was over, Grace would fix her
plate and one for Jack Ruby, and they would eat in the anteroom.
"One day she heard a shuffle and looked up just in time to hear the zip
of a gun with a silencer. A man had rushed through the door and fallen dead
on the floor. A big husky man came back, gripped her by the arm until she
thought he would crush it and said, 'You didn't see anything, did you. You
didn't hear anything, did you?' She answered, 'No, I was in the back of the
kitchen. I did not see anything. I did not hear anything.' From then on she
had their confidence. Jack shared a lot of the things that went on in the bar
with her. Anyone who knew Jack Ruby that well would always be able to
recognize him going or coming.
BOUND FOR ISRAEL?
"Six days after Jack Ruby's funeral was publicized in the press, Grace
called me very excited and said, "I was just now watching the news. They
turned the TV camera on a ramp up to a plane loading for Israel from New
York, and who do you think went up the ramp? I screamed to George in the
other room, calling him and saying, 'Come quickly! Jack Ruby is boarding
that plane!'
"At the top of the ramp he stopped, turned around, and looking straight
into the camera he tipped his hat and entered the plane. She said she thought
he was giving the message to someone that he had made it and was on his
way. The Pratts were shocked. She said there had already been a number of
JFK assassination witnesses who had mysteriously died. Two years after
seeing him board for Israel, she heard through the underground that Ruby
had gone to Brazil.
"She made me promise not to tell anyone what she told me until after
her death. Grace has been gone about ten years now. Knowing Grace and her