That's a promise. The "military industrial complex" did it. Nope, that doesn't wash either, said Perry. That's technically not correct. He talked about trying to resolve the situation, but he never made a claim that he was going to pull out of there. Sorry, said Perry, no veracity to that. But it's all hearsay.
It's possible there were individuals who helped Oswald, but who weren't part of any larger group or perhaps unaware of what he was planning. This is the conspiracy theory that interests Perry the most. So the argument is that the CIA felt that Kennedy was going to disband them. And as a result of that, they were the ones that ordered the killing of Kennedy. Perry points out that a former head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, was a member of the Warren Commission, the special Johnson-appointed panel tasked with the official investigation of the assassination.
The commission determined that Oswald acted alone. Oswald was a supporter of Soviet-backed Cuba. But we don't know what was said. Then a few weeks later, he shoots Kennedy. Or, maybe the CIA had Oswald on the payroll. He might have been a double agent. Is it possible that Russians ordered Oswald to do it? Not likely, said Perry.
The Russians would never have ordered Oswald to kill Kennedy because of his well-known links to Russia and his pro-Cuban sympathies. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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But this sort of conspiracy rabbit hole is familiar terrain for many Kennedy assassination buffs. Even those with mundane intentions can get caught up in the desire to find that tantalizing Ruby connection that could break open the case. There would be no more certain way to do so than by offering proof of a connection between Oswald and Ruby who according to every official account did not know one another.
Texas Judge Brandon Birmingham, an expert on the Ruby trial, had access to many of the original documents and pieces of evidence in that trial, which were stored at the Dallas courthouse. He described digging through the files as part of an effort to find and preserve evidence for a local museum.
I nearly had a heart attack. If this transcript was authenticated, it would have proved that these two critical figures who supposedly had each acted alone and did not know one another, were actually part of a larger conspiracy to kill the president. It certainly would have done just that.
Alas, it was not meant to be. In my defense, it did look like an official transcript, numbered margins and all. In retrospect, it is fair to say that the official and often under-appreciated page Warren Commission report, which ruled out any possible conspiracies, missed some details and got certain facts wrong.
The FBI and CIA were partially responsible since both had Oswald on their radar—even though not as a threat to the president—and sought to minimize that fact. But did the report whiff on the ultimate question of whether Oswald and then Ruby acted alone? That question certainly was in our minds when we decided to further examine one of the most interesting and often over-looked trials of modern American history.
A forgotten trial somehow few have focused on despite the fact that it served as the genesis or launching pad for many of the conspiracy theories. Sometimes in the form of testimony, and many other times with questions left unanswered. Neither David Fisher nor I take that seriously, but we did differ on the strategy employed by the defense. This was not an easy case, but I believe Belli did Ruby a disservice with the defense he chose and yet David felt Belli generally made a compelling case.
So keep an eye out for the subtleties in our agreed upon characterizations of the defense and decide for yourself. This is our fourth book together, where we have tried to tell the story of an overlooked trial while tracking the evolution of the American legal system, from the Boston Massacre trial, to defense attorney Abraham Lincoln and defendant Theodore Roosevel t, to The State of Texas v.
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