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/ Alternative Modern History “I thought I was in love with Jack,” she said, “He trusted me and cause” and inexplicably released without fingerprinting or follow-up I was doing something important for him. I was 26 years old and didn't investigation. It wasn’t until 1969, after he wasalso questioned by Los have any great purpose in life. That's probably why I became so Angeles police after the Bobby Kennedy assassination that it was involved in this and did it with such gusto. I guess I felt I was doing learned Brading was a Mob associate with a record of 35 arrests. something important.” Two acoustics experts (and many witnesses) have testified that a Throughout 1961, and especially after the Bay of Pigs, she claims third shot originated on the grassy knoll bordering Elm St with “95% she was an unwitting participant in the failed assassination plans or better” probability. An enhanced photograph shows a gunman against Castro. Then she realised she was being followed by the FBI. poised in bushes there with a rifle. Dallas policeman Joe Smith later “They hounded me about Sam and I was terrified,” she said. “I testified that he spoke with a man standing behind a picket fence near called Jack immediately to tell him the FBI had been to see me, asking the knoll, who produced a secret service badge. Records show that no all sorts of questions about Sam. I told him I had said I knew nothing secret service agent was stationed there. about Sam’s business. Jack reassured me. “He said, ‘Don’t worry, they won't do anything to you. And don’t > 7 worry about Sam. You know he works for us.’ He told me thatover R uby S True Colours and over.” Parts of Exner’s story were questioned by Giancana’s daughter, Jack Ruby, Oswald’s killer, had been a Mafia soldier in Dallas for Antoinette, ina TV interview on CBS This Morning mlateFebmary. | 4095 vesrs: the investigating Warren Commission deleted this fact Ms Giancana said she had never met Exner but admitted she was her from its official verdict. They never revealed that Ruby’s telephone father’s girlfriend and that her father had wanted to help in an : "i 5 ais soles ‘ . 4 ; records immediately prior to the assassination showed many calls to SSSA oe le Se MaTIRU ES ria) OBR OL LER es Osea en Mob officials and go-betweens, but suggested he killed Oswald be- Bane ‘gee ag ie rosa = be _ — * 1 cause of shocked patriotism - and an infatuation with Jackie Kennedy. a Bier OP Ral pte mot new er pat anything in writing,” she said. On the morning of November 22nd, Mary Lawrence, a bar waitress, oe ae eens Kemieaye eed Hexic ae saw Ruby talking to a younger man who looked like Oswald. “If you ee = eee) eats Neer ee ratte egies don’t want to die, you better get out of town,” a phone call informed. Has Se en MIMD SE)» ee es CORE nL her two days before an FBI interview after the assassination. PIERO Ce Ruby was at the Dallas police station every day after the Kennedy ' assassination, handing out cards to his Carousel Club to reporters. He Contract O n America was the Mafia pay-off man to Dallas police and had hundreds of con- nections within the force. Government wiretaps show that one of these, Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker, was on the take and knew A newly released book draws the connections between Kennedy and Ruby well. Decker rode in the “rolling command car” as part of the the Mob still tighter. Contract On America, the culmination of a 10 presidential motorcade and was involved in the ‘unsuccessful trans- year investigation by David Scheim, is a detailed account of the events fer’ of Oswald from the Dallas police jail where Ruby shot Oswald. leading up to and immediately following the JFK assassination. According to Sheim, Ruby owed the Mob a favour and believed “Gracing the tableau are neither crackpots nor clowns, freak he'd getoff lightly for murdering Oswald. Four weeks after being sen- colncidences nor senseless crimes,” writes Scheim. “Rather, tenced to death on March 14th, 1964, Ruby asked to see the Warren coming sharply into focus is the vicious combine of killers... a Commission. Inexplicably, they declined at first - but during his sub- group with the motive and capability to perform the assassina- sequent testimonies (reported in NEXUS No 3) to commission tion. Indeed, the conclusion Is clear. The Mafia killed President members he said there was a conspiracy behind the killings. Kennedy.” “I want to tell the truth and I can’t tell it here,” he said, “Does that Scheim says Kennedy angered organised crime when he stopped make sense to you? My life is in danger here.” Sheriff Bill Decker official attempts to overthrow Castro and recover millions in Mob supervised Ruby’s incarceration. gambling money lost in the Cuban revolution. Bobby Kennedy also According to Scheim, J. Edgar Hoover (head of the FBI and, some declared a ‘war on crime’ as Attomey-General. Official files detailed say, most powerful man in North America) had known ties to New by Scheim show that Teamster Union president Jimmy Hoffa, Florida York mobster Frank Costello and “an atrocious record” on organised crime boss Sam Trafficante and head of America’s oldest Mafia crime. He ensured that Oswald was labeled a “lone killer’. Scheim says family, Carlos Marcello - who controlled an empire stretching from that Vice-President Johnson also had strong mob connections and New Orleans to Texas - made direct statements that “their problems accepted pay-offs for curbing investigations into organised crime. with the Kennedy Administration would be solved by an assassina- “In conclusion, the Kennedy assassination cover-up fits the pat- tion.” tern that Roman historian Tacitus had characterised 19 centuries ago Lee Harvey Oswald's family had mob connections and he was on the murder of Emperor Galba: ‘a shocking crime’ committed ‘on ” bailed out of jail in New Orleans by Marcello’s top aide three months the unscrupulous initiative of a few individuals, amid the passive ac- before the November 22nd assassination, Scheim states that Oswald quiescence of all’,” writes Scheim. took part in the conspiracy, but that two other men - David Ferrie and As aresult, Kennedy's ‘war on crime’ - and proposed withdrawal Eugene Hale Brading - also took part (see Gemstone File). from Viemam and defence cuts - were stopped. Ferrie knew Oswald since the 1950s and also had Mafia ties; he “Perhaps the most disturbing benefit the Mob derived has been was seen with Oswald in New Orleans a month after his release from unprecedented (and continuing) influence at the highest levels of jail. He also gave a dubious alibi for the time of the JFK murder. Government,” Scheim concludes. Brading was found in the nearby Dal-Tex building (from which ia -RA. one bullet originated according to witnesses and ballistics evidence) The Gemstone File will continue next issue. - for more after the shooting. He was arrested for being present “without good information see issues 1-5. & Facts from ‘Contract On America’ & AP 25-288 & 5-3-8 NEXUS New Times Six - Spring 1988 “I thought I was in love with Jack,” she said, “He trusted me and cause” and inexplicably released without fingerprinting or follow-up I was doing something important for him. I was 26 years old and didn't investigation. It wasn't until 1969, after he wasalso questionedby Los have any great purpose in life. That's probably why I became so Angeles police after the Bobby Kennedy assassination that it was involved in this and did it with such gusto. I guess I felt I was doing learned Bracing was a Mob associate with a record of 35 arrests. something important.” Two acoustics experts (and many witnesses) have testified that a Throughout 1961, and especially after the Bay of Pigs, she claims third shot originated on the grassy knoll bordering Elm St with “95% she was an unwitting participant in the failed assassination plans or better” probability. An enhanced photograph shows a gunman against Castro. Then she realised she was being followed by the FBI. poised in bushes there with a rifle. Dallas policeman Joe Smith later “They hounded me about Sam and I was terrified,” she said. “I testified that he spoke with a man standing behind a picket fence near called Jack immediately to tell him the FBI had been to see me, asking the knoll, who produced a secret service badge. Records show that no all sorts of questions about Sam. I told him I had said I knew nothing secret service agent was stationed there. about Sam’s business. Jack reassured me. “He said, ‘Don’t worry, they won't do anything to you. And don’t > 7 worry about Sam. You know he works for us.’ He told me thatover R uby S True Colours and over.” Parts of Exner’s story were questioned by Giancana’s daughter, k id’s kill — aietealdierd 1 Antoinette, in a TV interview on CBS This Moming in late February. 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He used very . ¢ PY 7 ad i a saw Ruby talking to a younger man who looked like Oswald. “If you choice words for the Kennedy family when their name came up. . : ” . 5 “apa y) don’t want to die, you better get out of town,” a phone call informed. Exner remains adamant, and says she was the conduit which 2! aad ale WHEN tleels her two days before an FBI interview after the assassination. ia a oe ee Ruby was at the Dallas police station every day after the Kennedy ' assassination, handing out cards to his Carousel Club to reporters. He Contract On America was the Mafia pay-off man to Dallas police and had hundreds of con- nections within the force. Government wiretaps show that one of these, Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker, was on the take and knew A newly released book draws the connections between Kennedy and Ruby well. Decker rode in the “rolling command car” as part of the the Mob still tighter. Contract On America, the culmination of a 10 presidential motorcade and was involved in the ‘unsuccessful trans- year investigation by David Scheim, is a detailed account of the events fer’ of Oswald from the Dallas police jail where Ruby shot Oswald. leading up to and immediately following the JFK assassination. According to Sheim, Ruby owed the Mob a favour and believed “Gracing the tableau are neither crackpots nor clowns, freak he'd getoff lightly for murdering Oswald. Four weeks after being sen- colncidences nor senseless crimes,” writes Scheim. “Rather, tenced to death on March 14th, 1964, Ruby asked to see the Warren coming sharply into focus is the vicious combine of killers... a Commission. Inexplicably, they declined at first - but during his sub- group with the motive and capability to perform the assassina- sequent testimonies (reported in NEXUS No 3) to commission tion. Indeed, the conclusion Is clear. The Mafia killed President members he said there was a conspiracy behind the killings. Kennedy.” “I want to tell the truth and I can’t tell it here,” he said, “Does that Scheim says Kennedy angered organised crime when he stopped make sense to you? My life is in danger here.” Sheriff Bill Decker official attempts to overthrow Castro and recover millions in Mob supervised Ruby’s incarceration. gambling money lost in the Cuban revolution. Bobby Kennedy also According to Scheim, J. Edgar Hoover (head of the FBI and, some declared a ‘war on crime’ as Attomey-General. Official files detailed say, most powerful man in North America) had known ties to New by Scheim show that Teamster Union president Jimmy Hoffa, Florida York mobster Frank Costello and “an atrocious record” on organised crime boss Sam Trafficante and head of America’s oldest Mafia crime. He ensured that Oswald was labeled a ‘lone killer’. Scheim says family, Carlos Marcello - who controlled an empire stretching from that Vice-President Johnson also had strong mob connections and New Orleans to Texas - made direct statements that “their problems accepted pay-offs for curbing investigations into organised crime. with the Kennedy Administration would be solved by an assassina- “In conclusion, the Kennedy assassination cover-up fits the pat- tion.” tern that Roman historian Tacitus had characterised 19 centuries ago Lee Harvey Oswald's family had mob connections and he was on the murder of Emperor Galba: ‘a shocking crime’ committed ‘on ” bailed out of jail in New Orleans by Marcello’s top aide three months the unscrupulous initiative of a few individuals, amid the passive ac- before the November 22nd assassination. Scheim states that Oswald quiescence of all’,” writes Scheim. took part in the conspiracy, but that two other men - David Ferrie and As aresult, Kennedy’s ‘war on crime’ - and proposed withdrawal Eugene Hale Brading - also took part (see Gemstone File). from Viemam and defence cuts - were stopped. Ferrie knew Oswald since the 1950s and also had Mafia ties; he “Perhaps the most disturbing benefit the Mob derived has been was seen with Oswald in New Orleans a month after his release from unprecedented (and continuing) influence at the highest levels of jail. He also gave a dubious alibi for the time of the JFK murder. Government,” Scheim concludes. Brading was found in the nearby Dal-Tex building (from which ; -RA. one bullet originated according to witnesses and ballistics evidence) The Gemstone File will continue next issue. - for more after the shooting. He was arrested for being present “without good information see issues 1-5. & Facts from ‘Contract On America’ & AP 25-288 & 5-3-8 NEXUS New Times Six - Spring 1988 Ruby’s True Colours Contract On America -RA.