Newly Discovered JFK Transcript Will Fuel Conspiracy Buzz
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Newly Discovered JFK Transcript Will Fuel Conspiracy Buzz
A newly discovered transcript in discussing a plot to kill the president should fuel the JFK conspiracy debate.
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(February 18, 2008)--Conspiracy theorists will love the latest find related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

A highly suspect transcript discussing a plot to kill the president is part of some JFK-related memorabilia discovered by the Dallas County District Attorney's Office.

The Dallas Morning News reported exclusively Sunday that the items were found in an old safe on the 10th floor of the county courthouse.

Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said the discovery includes letters to and from former DA Henry Wade, the prosecutor in the Jack Ruby trial.

Ruby shot and killed Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald two days after the president's death.

There are also letters to Ruby, records from his trial, a gun holster and clothing that probably belonged to Ruby and Oswald, said Watkins, who planned to discuss the find at a news conference Monday.

But the transcript figures to get most of the attention.

The conversation is between Ruby and Oswald.

They supposedly met at Ruby's nightclub on Oct. 4, 1963, less than two months before the assassination.

In it, they talked of killing the president because the mafia wanted to get rid of his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

Gary Mack is the curator of the Sixth Floor Museum near where the president was shot.

He hasn't seen the transcript but doubts it's real.

So does Terri Moore, the top assistant to Watkins.

The transcript, which refers to Oswald by his first name, reads, in part:

Lee: You said the boys in Chicago want to get rid of the Attorney General.

Ruby: Yes, but it can't be done ... it would get the Feds into everything.

Lee: There is a way to get rid of him without killing him.

Ruby: How's that?

Lee: I can shoot his brother.

Ruby: But that wouldn't be patriotic.

Lee: What's the difference between shooting the Governor and in shooting the President?

Ruby: It would get the FBI into it.

Lee: I can still do it, all I need is my rifle and a tall building; but it will take time, maybe six months to find the right place; but I'll have to have some money to live on while I do the planning."



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Posted by: pat hudson Location: culver city on Feb 18, 2008 at 01:13 PM

this would certainly be proof of a conspiracy. get someone who was a good shot at anything, anywhere, surly ruby had to be envolved. and then who knows. tragedy...
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