Death to Justice: The Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald

Send a text We're getting close to consolidating all that we've covered regarding Lee Oswald's shooting. But it's important to reconcile Jack Ruby's life after the Oswald shooting until his own, sudden, death in early 1967. Ruby's conduct and state of mind through the Texas legal system was chaotic and difficult to make sense of. It didn't help that the lie detector test that he was granted was poorly administered either. Speaking of lie detector tests, Jack Ruby's most ardent accuser w...

Send a text Jack Ruby's immediate handling by the DPD was also controversial as it would turn out to be pivotal for his eventual sentencing for premeditated murder the following March of '64. When or if he admitted how he entered the basement to be in position to shoot Oswald has been heavily contested by researchers ever since but I'm pretty sure I have a good idea how it played out ... and to whom. At least Jack Ruby's own transfer to the Dallas County Jail ran like clockwork, t...

Send a text What took place inside and just outside the Dallas City Hall basement in the minutes prior to Lee Oswald's emergence there, and subsequent shooting, is incredibly interesting. Police personnel were transferred away from key posts within the basement, unidentified police personnel were witnessed in the same location and up on Main Street, nobody saw Jack Ruby up there. Join me as we set the scene for how Lee Oswald's shooting took place. About my book, appearances...

Send a text The plans for Lee Oswald's transfer to the County Jail finally started to come together on the morning of Sunday November 24. But just what were they exactly and what was done to ensure that the City Hall Basement was prepared for the transfer's start. In this episode, we'll start to focus on the broader movements of both regular and reserve DPD personnel across that morning. In doing so, we'll start to uncover some suspicious and never properly explained actions of so...

Send a text Reporters Jerry O'Leary, Maurice Carroll and Ike Pappas alleged that they were present on the Third Floor of Dallas City Hall to witness Lee Oswald be led into the elevator that took him down to the basement at the start of his transfer on November 24. Each of them would come to tell how they then raced Oswald in the elevator down to the basement by, miraculously, running down stairs, before Oswald and the elevator was. It's an implausible story that history overlooked...

Send a text Alfreadia Riggs... Harold Fuqua... they are just some of the witnesses to the lead up to Lee Oswald's shooting who were completely overlooked by the Dallas Police investigation but had some interesting accounts to share. And while they were interviewed by the FBI and, later, the Warren Commission, their movements on that morning demonstrated how poorly sealed the Dallas City Hall basement was ahead of Oswald's transfer. Also, did you know that Tom Howard, Jack Ruby's f...

Send a text In this episode, we'll take a look at how Lee Oswald's shooting was experienced at the time and how the reporting on it and the initial investigations shaped the widely accepted narrative that has largely stuck ever since. About my book, appearances on podcasts and general updates, check out my website. For continued articles on the Lee Oswald shooting, check out my free Substack. For accompanying visual resources, and other content on the Oswald shooting, check out my Yo...

Send a text Scott Reid is a lifelong resident of Glasgow, Scotland and has had a keen interest in the JFK assassination since the mid-1980s. He made his first trip to Dealey Plaza in 1996 and returned in 2013 for the 50th anniversary of the assassination. In recent years, he began developing his own research and presented at the JFK Lancer Virtual Conference in 2020 and 2021. Scott has also contributed articles for the Kennedys and King website, Garrison magazine and the DPUK Echo. Scot...

Send a text I'm joined by researcher, Johnny Cairns, from Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Robert Cairns, got him interested in the life and death of JFK. With respect to the JFK assassination, Johnny has focused on the flawed and circumstantial evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald. Johnny's presented at JFK assassination conferences and Dealey Plaza UK events, written articles and book reviews that have been published online and co- authored “JFK Case Not Closed” with Dave O'Brien which was pu...