White Suit Conspiracy

OK, I was slumming for a few days. I read a Jesse Ventura book on the JFK assassination. For those in the know, it was slightly closer to reality than the Jim Marrs book Oliver Stone used as background for JFK. But only slightly. Ventura’s book details 63 reasons to believe the assassination was the result of a conspiracy. Much was interesting, much was a rehash of the stuff I read during my JFK heyday a decade ago, and a lot was straight out of left field. It was a quick read, finished in about three hours.

It did mention a new take on small part of the assassination, one thing I had never read or heard before. I don’t believe it for a moment, but it struck me as intriguing.

Remember the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Department? He’s escorted out, handcuffed to a detective, into the midst of what seems to be a mob of a hundred men. One lurches forward, a nightclub owner name of Jack Ruby, a man who has absolutely no business in the basement of the Dallas Police Department, and fires a bullet at close range right into Oswald’s abdomen. The alleged presidential assassin dies an hour and 45 minutes later at Parkland Hospital, the same hospital that attempted to save Kennedy.

According to Ventura (or a source in his book, can’t remember which), all the men are wearing dark suits and hats except for one. One man is in a white suit and hat, and he’s the man cuffed to Oswald. The theory states that Ruby was sent in to kill Oswald and would recognize his victim because he would be to the right of the man in the white suit and hat.

Creepy. But I don’t think it’s true.

Take a look at this photo taken the instant Ruby fires at Oswald:

Yes, the detective next to Oswald wears what appears to be a white suit and hat (some describe it as “tan”). But in this picture I can see two guys with white/tan hats, one next to Oswald and the other immediately behind him, and at the right-side edge maybe another man with a white/tan suit. So perhaps this micro-conspiracy is a little half-baked.

But boy does that detective in the white suit and hat stand out.