| Show r y r rrw y IGA rrvrrwYw "rvrrynr m W’VW'W'Vir V"fpWT"W V V nnnr rr-- w The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday December 8 1863 deny he had killed the Presi- dent or anybody else “He was so smlrky’ Ruby said of Oswald ‘Somehow Their Paths Led to Dallas’ Timetable of the Incredible Collision By Jules Loh Associated Press Writer Dec 7 -DALLAS TEX What incredible irony of fate brought these three together for their rendezvous with history three lives so totally alien one to the other in character and mien and purpose? John Fitzgerald Kennedy! President world leader scion of Eastern wealth and culture talented witty and vibrant handsome champion of peace and justice whose ideals beckoned nobly to an uneasy world Lee narvey Oswald: fitful frustrated whose demoniac of Marxism led him every- Sullen where and nowhere Jack Leon Ruby: Gregarious parasite with a quick temper and a silk necktie whose lust for what he considered “class” was satisfied in the haze and din of a two-bstrip joint SOMEHOW TIIE three disparate paths led inexorably to Dallas collided violently and in the span of 48 hours of wicked pointlessness became irretrievably joined in the crime of the century This is the conclusion pi investigators whose thick dossier of evidence proves to their satisfaction that Lee Harvey Oswald and no one else slew John F it Kennedy What follows here of course is based on that conclusion V As for Ruby thousands watched his deed enacted a Jury will decide his guilt 11:3 7 am Central Standard Time Friday Nov 22 “He was so smart acted proud of what he had done” mitted” OSWALD out of work for three months and piqued over fruitless efforts to get quick visas in Mexico to return to the you com- - 95 for At 238 Glencairn St in Dak Cliff Patrolman J D Tippet wolfed his lunch His wife protested when he got up to leave early He explained that so many of the force were on special duty downtown he’d better get back to his patrol car The motorcade moved down Main Street Houston When it reached Street it turned right a block It would turn left again on Elm and swoop beneath the triple underpass then turn right onto Stemmons Freeway The big clock on the Mercantile Bank moved determinedly toward 12:30 pm The assassin rested his 65mm rifle on a stack of boxes sixth-floo- r at the window in the southeast corner of the book building half-opene- d four-pow- Con-nall- ‘ ON THE STREET below the window H L Brennan a steam-fitte- r shot The gun was sticking out the window I saw him fire a second time “I saw him “ne didn’t seem hurry” to 3 pm LEONARD BERNSTEIN KSl-A- and KSL-F- ed and at the intersection of Houston and Elm an with a line tracing the path of the fatal bullets Oswald stripped off his dark d jacket and donned a one He left the house to be in no The assassin dashed to the opposite comer of the building and tossed the rifle behind a stack of boxed basic readers Then he ran down the rear staircase stopping at the second floor A POLICEMAN a pistol In hand rushed Into the building and with the firm’s manager R S Truly began a search The policeman noticed “Does this man belong here?” a el (Holds 10 PLUS-Bigg- 14-L- B full-siz- e est CAPACITY bedsheets at once) FAN DRUM-Bigg- est light-colore- Biggest LINT a word without Built! SCREEN coincidentally he was about half the distance in a straight line between his home and the apartment of Ruby at 223 South Ewing Ruby was still downtown Perhaps Jack AT PARKLAND Hospital Jacqueline Kennedy sat alone in a small room with her husband's body A Secret Service man entered quietly with a cup of coffee left Mrs Kennedy rested her head gently against the hard bronze coffin then CRUISING a 1 o n a in Patrol Car 10 Officer Tipplt spotted the man he had heard described as Oswald and ordered to stop As the officer stepped from the car Oswald pulled out a pistol and pulled the Tippit trigger three times fell dead next to the left front him wheel ' Brand new By 1:45 pm Oswald had covered eight blocks — to the Texas Theater at 231 West Jefferson where he was captured five minutes later on a tip from box office cashier Julie Postal “This is it” Oswald cried when Officer N M McDonald closed in But of course it was only part of it At Love Field aboard the presidential jet Lyndon B Johnson his face placed his hand on a Bible and took the oath of office of President of the United States “Yes” said works here” Truly in “He Oswald slipped out of the building and into the fright—Associated Press Wirephoto ened crowd He worked his way A Leon the mob went Jack through milling Ruby: gregarious parasite with a quick temper a block north turned right on and silk necktie saw the prisoner— and next day came back Exclusive Eaty-V- control panel with larger aasier to read easier to use controls ' venting cuts installation More capacity and more features than any other dryer and at a terrific LOW PRICE ONLY COMPARE Wk FEATURES! COMPARE PRICES! drawn It was 2:39 Oswald Suite No 3 in D Major (Bach) Violin Concerto in E Minor (Mendelssohn)— Erica Morini soloist Symphony No 2 In C Major (Robert Schumann) WITH BIG six-sh- glanced up at the first under the direction of as Dryer SOMEWHERE WITHIN the room was also an oil company map of Dallas with the presidential motorcade route chart- tween Denver and HE LOOPED the leather sling around his wrist to steady the weapon in his palm and squintteled through the escopic sight the rifle stock pressed fltmly against his cheek With such a scope you can count the buttons on Jack Ruby walked into the man’s coat at 75 yards 'jiiiiii'iii ti m— wf —Associated Press Wirephoto display ad department of the Dallas News and asked for The rifle barked once Then Lee Harvey Oswald: The motorcade wan nearing—and he told a John Newnam who handled his twice more “You go on down-e- nd send the elevator back up” The President’s hands jerked instinctively toward his throat but he never really knew what y hit him Texas Gov John B pitched forward in his seat The blue convertible paused momentarily then bolted forward at top speed beneath the underpass and on to Parkland Hospital invites you to enjoy the weekly radio broadcasts of didn’t answer Oswald He crossed the parlor to his tiny room with the bare wails and ancient dresser He walked south and east and at 1:30 pm was on E 10th Street be- National Prudential Federal Savings I kids” NEXT MORNING Ruby took Sheba one of his three dachshunds put her in his car and drove to the intersection of Houston and Elm Already the greenswards on either side were sprinkled with floral' sprays the tributes of saddened townspeople Ruby remEiined a while then drove straight to the Municipal Building $125-an-ho- y 1 poor stalled in the traffic It wasn’t At the Dallas News someone a regular stop but the driver C into the display ad derushed J McWatters opened the door Oswald took the third chair from partment with the news Jack the front on the right Ruby scurried into a nearby office where a television set was He would get a good view of on He heard the bulletin: the scene of the crime as the “President Kennedy is dead" bus passed Honston and Elm HE PARKED his car and AFTER A FEW m o m e njt s There were only about five again joined the reporters who to returned Newnam’s Ruby other passengers were waiting for Oswald to apdesk and phoned his sister Eva pear for hid transfer to the THE BUS inched ahead a Grant He was plainly upset county jaiL block and at 12:44 pm the “Don’t worry” she told him driver of a traffic-blocke- d car Ruby told Newnam to cancel The nation was a witout toward ran and the his ad jumped ness to the sickening bus He wanted to tell someHE GOT IN his car and drove scene that followed at body so he told McWatters to Field and Commerce streets 11:21 am “The President’s been shot!” and scrawled “Closed” across —associated Press Wirephoto the door of the Carousel Club At 1:07 pm Lee Harvey OsOswald said nothing Baines Aboard Johnson: the Presidential Jet his face wald was dead of the gunshot At Oneal’s Funeral Home a Lyndon In a moment he stood up mile from Parkland Hospital drawn he placed his hand on a Bible and took simple oath wound inflicted by Jack Leon asked the driver for a transfer And half a continent the phone rang and a voice Ruby and got off the muffled drums were identified himself as a Secret away He Was in the crowd of newsventory of his employes Severtheir melancholy tattoo Service agent al were missing — outside men when Oswald was brought beating It was 12:46 pm for John Fitzgerald Kennedy's “This is' a legitimate call” among the crowd he Supposed out for a quick interview and last mournful trip from the the agent said Vernon B heard the arrogant introvert White House to the Capitol Still he went to a policeHe crossed the street and Oneal didn’t doubt it for a him told Lee man and hurried two blocks south to Com Oswald wasn’t there merce Street and jumped into “Load a coffin into your He described the Celebrating our 50th year cab parked at the Grey—Associated Presg Wirephoto in business with the bighound Bus Depot “Takeme to hearse get a police escort and stock clerk John Fitzgerald Kennedy: He beckoned to an uneasy world— 500 North Beckley” he ordered get over to Parkland as fast as gest bargains in our his“Frankly I don’t know why I Now is your chance and captivated Dallas— until the assassin’s rifle barked possible” humanly tory William startCabbie Whaley singled him out” Truly said to make big savings on faed on a zigzag course trying “What type casket?” asked “Perhaps because I had seen mous brand furniture car- to escape the traffic him shortly before” Oneal Soviet Union had come to Dal- account Newnam wasn’t in lets and appliances! Como las merely to take a think Ruby sat down at his desk to “What the hell yon “The best you have” n today wait The police bulletin to job happened out there?” he said The undertaker selected a solFREE DELIVERY-EA-SY TERMS id bronze double wall pick up Oswald went out Ruby had lived in Dallas 14 LEE OSWALD was still hang Whaley hadn’t heard Oswald amber-colore1:15 at d years coffin with pm SHOE MONDAYS FRIDAYS TILL 9 PJVI end ing around on an upper floor didn’t tell him Neither spoke a beige velvet interior HE CAME from Chicago to of the Texas School Book Depos the rest of the trip At that time Oswald was HIS STAFF was out so he help his sister run a dingy nighteven though his through the living room dashing club the Carousel and later took itory lunch period was already 10 - It was 1 pm got bookkeeper Roy Gleason of a mottled brown brick boardover its management He liked minutes old and porter K J Brown to help ing house at 1026 N Beckley to wear fancy Western duds At Parkland Hospital the Rt him load it in the white hearse 2 miles down and see the Imagine! Only “Let’s qualify go away The housekeepand call people “podnah” they Rev Msgr Oscar Huber dipped in turn used to refer to him President” a coworker said Back at the book depository er Earlene Roberts was in the room wryly as the “Chicago cowboy” “No You go on down — his right thumb into a vial of manager Truly began taking in-and send the elevator back “You sure are in a hurry” 11:52 am — she said up” The black wheels of the Presidential jet touched the runway at Dallas’ Love Field with simultaneous puffs of blue smoke Then the plane whined its way The Presidential entourage to gate 28 at the eastern edge out of the airport’s main pulled of the airport entrance and headed south toAT THAT moment Lee Harvey ward downtown Dallas Oswald was shuffling quietly The day was gorgeous Rain almost unnoticed among stacks had been forecast but about seven-storrust 11 of books in a am a brisk breeze blew in brick building at 411 Elm St from the north and brushed filling orders for school texts away the dark couids And at the same moment four blocks away Jack Ruby D a 1 1 a s i t es congratulated was dabbing at his pudgy face themselves on their luck: The with a paper napkin as he lin- President wouldn’t have to ride gered over his morning coffee beneath the bubbletop after all at a table in the cafeteria on When the motorcade reached the second floor of the Dallas Lemon Avenue and Lomo Alto Street at noon a group of school Morning News Building waved a sign frantically The lives of none of these girls three men had begun in “Mr President” it said Texas “please stop and shake But at this moment all three— our hands" Kennedy Oswald Ruby— were The President grinned the by the machinations of fate to- convertible halted the girls giggether in Dallas for the first gled rushed forward and time The President had come clutched at his outstretched on a political visit and it had hand been a triumphant one As the triumphal procession rolled — Ansteadily along gently at San The crowds tonio Houston Fort Worth winding Turtle Creek Bouleand now at Love Field — were vard and swung onto Cedar Springs Road the crowds along never more enthusiastic the curbs began to thicken The President had never seemed in brighter spirits his It was 12:10 pm wife never more radiant SUNDAYS— His roommate George Senator said he was distraught ' kept repeating “poor Jackie those those poor kids unc-tione- m ing may God forgive whatever sins you have went home The next day he moped around his apartment Pacific Street and walked brisk- holy oils and marked cross ly for six blocks to Griffin on the forehead of John F KenStreet nedy “Per istam sanctam ” he murmured It was 12:40 pm “Through this holy anointHe tapped on the door of a Marsalis Street bus which was Jack Ruby Then so Several NEW 1964 NORGE WASHERS NOW FROM ONLY pm hours $18995 later Jack Ruby got a look at Lee Oswald He said it was his first ALWAYS liked to with newsmen and pomingle lice and at the Municipal BuildRUBY ing Friday night plenty of both were qn hand Ruby brought them coffee hung around K6 55 South State EM4-650- - -- ii 1 |
