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...facts are fairly indisputable, although someone, somewhere will provide arguments to the contrary. On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and fatally wounded while riding in a motorcade around Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Almost exactly 48 hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, was gunned down in front of live television cameras while being transferred from one jail to another. He died shortly thereafter...
...President was shot on a Friday and Lee Harvey Oswald on that Sunday. Two days later, Dukakis turned in his monthly column to the Brookline Citizen. There was nothing heightened about this particular column, no private memory of the man or personal emotion expressed. Dukakis deals in consequences, and he did not want emotions let loose by the assassination to be spent unproductively...
...Scheim asserts, was Lee Harvey Oswald, whose uncle was a member of La Cosa Nostra. Oswald, shooting from a book depository building, would take the fall for Kennedy's death. But, following an old theory, Scheim writes that the angle at which the bullet hit Kennedy indicates that it came from behind a stockade fence on Kennedy's right slightly ahead of his limousine--meaning that Oswald was not responsible for the deadly shot...
...Oswald's death, at the hands of Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, Scheim sees an attempt by the Mafia to cover its tracks by preventing Oswald from divulging what he knew. Much of the argument here stems from Scheim's documentation of Ruby's underworld activity, including illegal gambling schemes, narcotics trafficking and prostitution...
Scheim's critical examination of Ruby's testimony before the Warren Commission accounts for some of his book's most remarkable passages. Ruby hinted broadly that he was part of the Mob, that members of the Dallas Police Department co-operated in his murder of Oswald, and that as he was testifying, his life was in grave danger. It is a hair-raising experience to read through Ruby's continued pleading that the hearings be moved to Washington, where he might speak with somewhat less fear of being murdered on the spot...