Let's have a poll on JFK

[JackRiddler]

54. Funny that Oswald's "Fair Play" address...

was in the same building as the right-wing "Free Cuba" committee. Or that Oswald the committed Marxist, after renouncing his citizenship and yet miraculously being allowed back in to the U.S. after a couple of hours of processing, without an interrogation, then got a high-security job doing aerial spy photo analysis for Honeywell and hung out with Russian right-wing emigres. You just keep believing all that is irrelevant.

Whereas you really think Ruby on his way to his own possible death on live TV was worried about his dog, and that this is relevant? The dog would be found after the deed was done, no doubt--where else should he leave it? More distraction through faux-psychological details. The mafia club-owner kills the patsy, nothing to see here. Oh, but wait, he had a Western Union slip in his pocket: that's totally relevant. Any chewing gum wrappers?

The House Select Committee on Assassinations in its 1979 Final Report opined:

…Ruby's shooting of Oswald was not a spontaneous act, in that it involved at least some premeditation. Similarly, the committee believed it was less likely that Ruby entered the police basement without assistance, even though the assistance may have been provided with no knowledge of Ruby's intentions… The committee was troubled by the apparently unlocked doors along the stairway route and the removal of security guards from the area of the garage nearest the stairway shortly before the shooting… There is also evidence that the Dallas Police Department withheld relevant information from the Warren Commission concerning Ruby's entry to the scene of the Oswald transfer.
—[52]

When Ruby was arrested immediately after the shooting, he told several witnesses that he helped the city of Dallas "redeem" itself in the eyes of the public, and that Oswald's death would spare "…Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial."[53] At the time of the shooting Ruby said he was taking phenmetrazine, a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.[51]

Ruby's explanation for killing Oswald would be "exposed … as a fabricated legal ploy", according to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. In a private note to one of his attorneys, Joseph Tonahill, Ruby wrote: "Joe, you should know this. [My first lawyer] Tom Howard told me to say that I shot Oswald so that Caroline and Mrs. Kennedy wouldn't have to come to Dallas to testify. OK?"[42][54]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby#Timeline