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...turned out that Luongo is an associate of Anthony Pugliese, the previously unidentified collector who bought the gun at auction last December for $220,000. Luongo had taken the pistol to Washington to display it on a cable-TV show about Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...Conspiracy of Silence (Signet; 205 pages; $4.99 paper) by Charles A. Crenshaw. It is the first account written by a doctor who was part of the Parkland Memorial Hospital trauma team that tried to save Kennedy and, two days later, his assassin (sorry, alleged assassin), Lee Harvey Oswald...
Crenshaw says that until now, he and his colleagues refused to "rock the boat" by publicly disputing the Warren Commission's finding that Oswald was the lone assassin. But he is adamant that the head wound suffered by the President came from the front of the motorcade, thus making it impossible for Oswald to have murdered Kennedy from a sixth-floor rear perch. The physician says it is clear that "someone had tampered with the body" during its extralegal transfer from Texas to the autopsy room at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, presumably to support a single-gunman scenario...
That theory isn't new, but Crenshaw's account contains a vivid anecdote that will no doubt be seized upon by those who argue that there was a government conspiracy. When Oswald, shot by Jack Ruby, wound up at Parkland, Crenshaw noted the presence of a heavyset armed man in the operating room. Moments later came a telephone call from Washington. On the other end of the line, according to Crenshaw, was Lyndon Johnson, who demanded that the medical team obtain "a deathbed confession from the accused assassin," to be recorded by the mysterious agent. When Oswald died minutes later...
Guess again. This movie doesn't star Kevin Costner and Jack Lemmon, and it wasn't directed by Oliver Stone. Ruby is the newest effort from director John MacKenzie. And although it shares a great deal with its blockbuster predecessor--a reenactment of Oswald's murder two days, later, a resounding nostalgia for the 1960s'--it's also distinctly different. Mackenzie's thoughtful film focuses on the experiences of Jack Ruby, delving into the small-town gangster's mob and government connections as the key to the solution for the Kennedy mystery...