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3.0 out of 5 stars
just does not delve deep enough into Ruby's mind, February 26, 2000
I have to say that I almost knew what to expect when I ordered this book.Kantor can always hold to his credit the fact that he knew Ruby before 1963 being a Dallas-ite himself. But, I feel that he scratches the surface of what could have been a really credible and cohesive piece of work, and goes no further than pointing out the failings of a handful of Dallas Police Officers. It should be called the Dallas PD's Misfeasance not the Ruby Coverup, because he just does not show any real evidence of a coverup other than as I said previously the failings or complacency of a few officers. I'd still buy the book because it is reasonably priced and Kantor does give a some thought to Ruby's movements into that Dallas PD basement which he sets out very well in the book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Re-living That Second Murder of Defenseless Men, 1962, November 24, 2006
Today is the 44th anniversay since that fateful day when former nightclub owner and Mobster shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in cold blood as the nation watched on television. I saw it, and it was unbelievable that the Dallas police would let him get that close. Oswald was shackled with his hands behind him and had no way to know that something like this could happen. Only in Texas, where they killed President John F. Kennedy two days earlier! In this country, a person is innocent until proven guilty, or supposedly that is the law of the land. In Dallas, it seems that Oswald had been set up to die to shut him and keep him from talking about his co-conspirators in the assassination on November 22, 1962.
He was a dead duck and a sacrifice. Ruby did not kill him because he was insane or "loved" the president. He killed him so that we would never know the truth. They had chosen him to be appointed the trigger man, although the person in the grassy mall was the real assassin. He had libed in Russia and married a Russian girl, so he was expendable and his past would make it appear as if he was the actual trigger man. I have never believed that he was, and an innocent man was shot down in the presence of the police and media with no defense. He was the person less worthy of living, according to the Mob and Ruby's bosses in the sleazy, sordid underworld in which he was a minor player. He, too, was expendable and the cancer of his prostate came in handy to set him free to die in peace and from natural causes, not gunned down as he did Oswald. The world will never forget that American justice allowed this to happen and treated it as a happenstance.
This author is giving us a first-person account of those days in Dallas from the historic and on-the-scene perspective. He knew Ruby from the days he had been a reporter on a Dallas newspaper. He saw Ruby in Parkland Hospital an hour after Kennedy was shot. That is not a happenstance. He was in on the conspiracy to kill the president and to get rid of the person who had been chosen to take the blame. Just as the person who was judged guilty of the Martin Luther King murder, James Earl Ray, who spent the rest of his life and died in prison for something he did not do. He was paid and sent off to England. How was he caught there? Some snitched on him, and he was the fall guy, the one to take the blame for something another conspiracy which succeeded.
Seth Kantor was a member of the White House correspondents whose article, HOUSTON, Nov. 21 -- "The story of President and Mrs. Kennedy's 'non-political' trip to Texas is chock full of bad timing and highly political backfires." This ran on the front pages of 'The New Yokr World-Telegram & Sun,'The Denver Rocky Mountain News,' and other Scripps-Howard newspapaer all across the country. Our local daily paper is owned by Scripps. He exposes the sinister world of Jack Ruby and his conspirators, was not believed at first, but when he made an automobile trip to locate witnesses, one was too afraid to testify because he had received three phone calls threatening him "if he came forward to tertify against Ruby." Jack Ruby got away with murder because he was dying from the cancer. His surgeons in Dallas had framed pictures on the wall of Ruby, one of his cancerous prostrate gland (how gross) and the other "a massive photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald."
That imprint will always be in my sub-conscious as I was so appalled as I watched it happen on television. How on earth was that possible in the free land of which we live where we have a justice system. Texas is and has always had their own justice system, shoot first (like in the cowboy days) and ask questions later. They don't hang murderers any more with a lynch mob, but that was the practice in Texas back then to keep that victim's mouth shut as well. A chief-of-police in a small town in Tennessee once told me, "Don't you know there is no justice?" He was right; there wasn't then (1962) and there still isn't in today's society.
This book is thoroughly researched and all of the facts substantiated. The only thing lacking were more complete photo section to remind us just how horrid the happenings in November in Dallas, Texas, were and that there indeed was a conspiracy not only to kill Oswald but to kill Kennedy as well in the state of Texas. His successor was from that state, and that tells a whole lot about the coverup all these years.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
The Man with the golden gun, April 30, 2004
Very informative, but this title is a reprint under another name of Seth Kantor's earlier version, "Who was Jack Ruby?", published in 1978. One vital piece of information missing from both editions is Nixon's associations with Ruby, Organized Crime, Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters. In 1947, for example, Jack Rubenstein (aka Jack Ruby) was called to appear before the House Unamerican Activities Committee. A letter from Congressman Richard Nixon's office was sent to the HUAC asking that he be excused from testifying because he was working for his office on "gevernment business". This information was found in the FBI files after Nixon was dead and buried, I believe. There's so much more we know about Tricky Dick that was not available to author Seth Kantor at the time of his original publication. It's a disappointment that he did not seem to update this 1992 edition, but rather repackaged it under a new name. It's still a very powerful book, however.
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by Seth Kantor
by Mary LA Fontaine
by Jim Marrs
