Final_Judgment

244 The Errand Boy [183]
credibility, I believe every word. If someone had the clout to check the grave
to have the 'body' exhumed, this might be very revealing." 500
So ends the strange memorandum received by this author. The words
speak for themselves.
The source who provided the author with this unusual memorandum
firmly believes that Mrs. Pratt did indeed know Jack Ruby well and that
Mrs. Pratt herself was convinced that she had seen Ruby boarding the plane
for Israel.
Another individual who knew Mrs. Pratt told this author that she was a
highly credible individual not given to tale-spinning and that she had indeed
mentioned her acquaintance with Ruby (although she had not told him the
story about having seen Ruby departing for Israel).
Is this story the product of one woman's imagination? Or did Mrs.
Pratt indeed see just what she believed she saw? Is possible that Mrs.
Pratt has provided us yet another key tying Israel to the most intimate levels of
the JFK assassination conspiracy?
It is worth remembering that even as these words are written, many
leaders in Israel and leaders of the Israeli lobby in the United States are
working tirelessly for the pardon of American-born Israeli spy, Jonathan Jay
Pollard, sentenced to life in prison for passing U.S. defense secrets to Israel.
Is it possible, perhaps, that a similar, secret arrangement was made on Jack
Ruby's behalf? Is it possible that, on "humanitarian" grounds, Ruby was
quietly released from prison and permitted to go to Israel? (After all, it
could be argued, it was Ruby who had become a hero by killing "the man
who killed President Kennedy.") Is it possible that the decision was made to
usher Ruby quietly out of the country so that there would be no widely
publicized trial in which Ruby's connections—would be bared?
SOMEBODY WAS HELPING RUBY
It is interesting to note that on October 6, 1966, at the time Ruby was
granted a new trial, the Washington Daily News carried a story proclaiming
that "It's Possible for Ruby to Go Free," as a result of a second trial. The
story quoted his lawyer as saying the case was so simple that "Somebody
just out of law school can handle it." 501 What's more, it's interesting to
note a little-noticed column by veteran crime reporter Dorothy Kilgallen
who had an abiding (and perhaps fatal) interest in the JFK case.
In her column datelined DALLAS, February 21, reporting on the Ruby
trial, Miss Kilgallen reported that "one of the best kept secrets of the Jack
Ruby trial is the extent to which the federal government is cooperating with
the defense. The unprecedented alliance between Ruby's lawyers and the
Department of Justice in Washington may provide the case with the one
dramatic element it has lacked: MYSTERY." 502
Miss Kilgallen revealed that a deal between Ruby's lawyers and the
FBI, "provides Ruby's side with reams of helpful information that they
would never have been able to get without the G-Men—on the condition
they do not ask for anything at all about Ruby's alleged victim, Lee Harvey