Shifty-Eyed Fritz and the Murder of Oswald

[Barry Pollard]

Interesting Michael ty.
98% clearance rate? I'm no expert but I can think of only one way to do that and that's rail-roading people.
Also I'm wondering whether Hoover getting mad had any effect on him? I mean he barely talked in the first place, that "this case is synched" line though, slightly premature, perhaps.

"Hey Captain, it's the big fruit on line 1, he's pissed again".

Seriously though, I'll go read something.

[Jerry Freeman]

'By Gosh...Don't get any blood on my car'



The car had honked twice...first honk - get ready and then the next - GO!

[Matt Grantham]

 The car pulling in is to pick up Oswald?  Hard to understand why a car would be pulling in at this moment

[Steve Howsley]

'By Gosh...Don't get any blood on my car'



The car had honked twice...first honk - get ready and then the next - GO!

So the driver of the car is the one who gave the Go! signal? It's a wonder that he wasn't so preoccupied that he failed to run over Fritz.

[Howard Gee]

So the driver of the car is the one who gave the Go! signal? It's a wonder that he wasn't so preoccupied that he failed to run over Fritz.

Even more amazing is how close he came to running over Ruby.

It almost looks like Jack's left leg is hit by the car driven by the 'signal man'.

Ready...Set....You better go, or I'll run your a$$ over.

[Jerry Freeman]

Starting at 1:24 ...... this reporter guy looks right at -  Jack Ruby   ..and then shakes his head at him like 'Gotta love it'.

[Matt Grantham]

 What would history have looked like if this guy ran over Ruby right as he was trying to shoot Oswald?

[Steve Howsley]

What would history have looked like if this guy ran over Ruby right as he was trying to shoot Oswald?

Very different. It didn't even require a car hitting Ruby to have given us a new present day. Simply preventing reporters into the building spilling into corridors etc would result in an excellent chance of Oswald standing trial. If Ruby wasn't asked by Carlin to wire her some money he probably wouldn't have been in the vicinity to have gunned him down. It's often little things that glue historical facts together and without them, events take a different course.