You are absolutely right and I am admitting my sloppy mistake, when writing from memory without checking the details. My bad.
Congratulations. Now address the supposed fraudulent paperwork for the rifle.
1. There is witness testimony (FBI informant) saying that Ruby was talking of the president upcoming motorcade as ”fireworks”.
FALSE. FALSE. FALSE.
There is nothing like you describe. Instead, there is actually a hearsay account (not sworn testimony) by a IRS person who said an IRS (
not FBI) informant (and low-level criminal) told him - 14 years after the fact - a story the IRS person did not find credible -- that this criminal and Ruby purportedly watched the assassination from the corner of Houston & Commerce after Ruby purportedly invited him to 'watch the fireworks'. It's a hearsay second-hand account, never verified by the person who supposedly claimed it.
It's pertinent to note the person who purported told this story to the IRS person never showed when asked to repeat the story to investigators.
It's also pertinent to note that you continue to butcher the story you brought up - originally claiming Ruby said this to presumably more credible NEWSMEN (plural) instead of being traceable to one low-level burglar (singular). And even after informed of the true facts, you still butcher it, mutating an IRS informant into an FBI one. And ignoring that at best, this story was first told 14 years after the event, and that the person who heard it found it not credible.
Moreover, even granting for the sake of argument that Ruby actually said it (which is stretching it), 'fireworks' is just an American idiom for any exciting event. So Ruby could have been inviting the man to just watch the motorcade. So you need to not only establish the story told by this low-level criminal is not only true, but that Ruby meant it in a literal sense. And that Ruby meant one firecracker (singular) when he said fireworks (plural). And no one watches a firecracker, for the most part. You watch fireworks, which are different. You hear a firecracker.
Good luck with establishing any of that - let alone all of that.
2. There is witness testimony of seeing Ruby on and around the Houston/Elm in the relevant time frame.
Is there? Sworn testimony or a claim first introduced into the record decades later? Who is this unnamed witness and what did they actually say (quote them). Moreover, bear in mind Ruby was seen at the Dallas Morning News at 12:40 (and he was already there sitting at a desk) when the witness got back from watching the motorcade, and the witness in your claim (1) above puts Ruby at the southwest corner of the Elm / Commmerce intersection, not near the Elm / Houston intersection. There's a long two-block walk Ruby would have to accomplish in there, and then the trip to the Dallas Morning News Ruby has to make to get there by BEFORE 12:40pm. Awaiting your evidence Ruby had time to accomplish all the actions you claim he made in (1) and (2). Go ahead, provide the evidence. Show us your proof.
3. There are multiple witnesses reporting what they at the time thought were fireworks just before they heard what the thought was the first rifle shot.
There are witnesses who claimed they thought the first shot was a firecracker (not fireworks). This doesn't help you any. You're alleging six sounds (one firecracker and five shots). But you're alleging the witnesses heard one firecracker and only two shots. There are only two witnesses - to my recollection - that said there were more than four shots - and that's being generous, as Jean Hill said she heard "from four to six shots" - but wasn't certain of the number.
The witnesses who said the first sound was a firecracker described, for the most part, three loud sounds, one of which they initially mistook for a firecracker, but later realized was a shot. Many of the witnesses belabored under no such misapprehension. For example, law enforcement officer Marrion Baker said he realized immediately the first sound was a rifle shot.
== QUOTE ==
Mr. BELIN - In any event you heard the first shot, or when you heard this noise did you believe it was a shot or did you believe it was something else?
Mr. BAKER - It hit me all at once that
it was a rifle shot because I had just got back from deer hunting and I had heard them pop over there for about a week.
Mr. BELIN - What kind of a weapon did it sound like it was coming from?
Mr. BAKER - It sounded to me like it was
a high-powered rifle.
Mr. BELIN - All right. When you heard the first shot or the first noise, what did you do and what did you see?
Mr. BAKER - Well, to me,
it sounded high and I immediately kind of looked up, and I had a feeling that it came from the building, either right in front of me or of the one across to the right of it.
Mr. BELIN - What would the building right in front of you be?
Mr. BAKER - It would be this
Book Depository Building.
== QUOTE ==
4. I’m not claiming that it actually was fireworks, I’m claiming it could be a reasonable probability.
Another far more reasonable probability is that it was a shot, exactly as Marrion Baker described. At that there was a total of three of them, exactly as about 90% of the witnesses who gave a number described.
5. I’m claiming it is a possibility that the conspirators used fireworks in order to confuse and divert the public and that Jack Ruby, in case this happened , would be a prime suspect.
Numerous people here have already pointed out that using a firecracker to signal the start of an assassination attempt makes no sense on a number of levels. There is no evidence of a firecracker, other than that some people described the first sound that way, but again, this is belied by others who suffered from no such confusion.
Hank
