"MURDERERS I HAVE KNOWN--JACK
RUBY"
. . This is a photograph taken in
the Dallas County Jail of Jack Ruby, the
man who shot and killed Presidential
assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. My Uncle
was an FBI agent in Dallas working on the
case and he gave me this snapshot of
Jack Ruby.
(c) 2006 Elton Houck...
For some
unfathomable reason, I was personally
involved, or rather my path crossed many
of the particulars in this story.
I
had been to Jack Ruby's club with my
wife. I saw the swarthy /stocky man
there.
The police officer that
Oswald killed on Tenth Street (after he
shot the president) was Office J.D Tippet.
I knew him well, for he moonlighted at
Austin's Barbecue where I spent a great
deal of time. In fact he arrested a friend
of mine one night that I was drinking
coffee with at the time (officer Tippit told
me that my friend was "a wise ass and a
sass talker," and then Officer Tippet
advised me not to drink coffee with him
again...)
And another officer that
I knew was Pat Ganaway. He arrested
Oswald at the Texas Theater after
scuffling with Oswald and wrestling him
to the ground. This incident was not
without some amazing occurences. Lee
Harvey Oswald was subdued and
handcuffed and led away, but not before
Sergeant Ganaway was probably thanking
God that he was still alive.. While being
thrown to the floor during his arrest,
Oswald placed his gun's barrel to Officer
Ganaway's head and clicked off a round.
The gun misfired...Other wise Officer
Ganaway's brains would have been
splattered all over the Texas Theater
floor. Later, the police test fired Oswald's
pistol a hundred times and it fired
perfectly every time...
It was on
Tenth Street where Oswald was stopped
by Office Tippit and Oswald shot the man
to death one block down for where my
children's Pediatrician's office was
located.
Officer Tippet's son
went to school with me.
I often
went to the Texas Theater too, Before
this all took place
I bought a
piano from Lee Harvey Oswald's land lady
before Lee fired off those fatal shots from
a window at the School Book Depository.
And then later Marina Oswald
Porter (Oswald's widow) became a
customer of mine...
I guess this is
all part of that theory that everyone is
only separated by 6 degrees from Kevin
Bacon or anyone on the planet ( Kevin
Bacon..oh him, Kevin Bacon has tried to
get my niece to go out with him)
.. Instead of the theoretical 6
degrees of separation --it seems I was
somehow about 3 degrees away from this
scene...Don't ask me why..only God
knows what cosmic significance it has or
has not...