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    "ocrText": "withs, and 10 days Jack Ruby, slayer of\nlyndon B. Johnson set up the assossination.\nJohn F. Kennedy's assossin Lee Horvey\nThe ENQUIRER prints this letter, neyer printed be\nin a Dallas joll and then a hos-\nfore, with all its spolling and punctuation crrors\nhe died of concer on Jonuory\n3.\ncorrected, as on interesting historicol document.\ntly asked, \"Why did you shool Oswald?\"\nThought many of the statements are demonshrably\nsi have wondered why no one ever sought\nfolse, it neveriheless provides a keen insight inio\non on why Oswald gunned down Kennedy.\nJack Ruby's mind.\ne fali of 1965, nighiclub operator Ruby\nThe letter is owned by Bill Diehl, enterfoinment\nextreme pains to record his version of the\neditor of the SA. Paul Disparch, who obtained it of\nation,\non auration staged by Charles Homilton of New\nsigned letter, scribbled on five finy sheets\nYork. Hamilion, America's leading authority on\nto former prison trushy Thomas E. Miller,\nthe leffers of notable personalities, assured The\nggled out of jail, Ruby claims President\nENQUIRER that Ruby's letter. was genuine.\nemember these names you have\nhorrible death imaginable. Tell him he\nperson you must warn, because\nbetter find a way out of the country on the pre-\nis guts, they had a run in a few\ntense of some business deals or a vacation.\nhey have done away with him\nI'm sure you can tell him everything. be-\nte is Bruce Alger, (and) he was\ncause he and Johnson are bitter enemies. He has\nessman and no knows how he\nan ex-wife bv name of Lynn Alger, and I'm sure\nthe last election, but I'm sure\nthey are on friendly terms, she may got him to\nmething to do with his losing\nfly in secretly for some made up reason, that\nNean. I believe he is presently\nshe is in trouble and must have his help, that\nColorado Springs, managing\nshe don't want to discuss it on the phone You\nproject for H.L. Hunt\nmay find her around the Pago Club on McKin-\nfind out from my ex girl-friend\nney Ave. Ask Bob Norton the owner he may help\n: boss as to were he might\nyou. Remember you cant be seen with Alger, he\now and what you stay on the\nis too well known. If you cant locate her, maybe\nayone, because they may have\nyou can through Lamar Hunt and tell him you\nrapped.\nare a friend visiting from out of town. You can\nhis life is in danger, and the\nlocate Lamar Hunt through the 7th fl. Mercan-\ntile Bank Bldg.\nOh the way I f----- up this world who would\never dream that the mother-f----- was a Nazi and\nfound me as the perfect setup for a frame. It\nwas perfect for them. Remember they had the\nthe president killed, and now with me in the\npicture, they'll make it look as though Castro\nor the Russians had it done, anyone in their\nright mind would know that the Russians or Cas-\ntro would never do something like that, what\nwould they gain by doing something like that, it\nwould only create worse hostilities. After it was\nLETTER WRITER: Jack Ruby's scribbled n\ndone they would only put another man in of-\nwas smuggled out of the Dallas jail.\nfice to take Kennedy's place. Remember the only\none who had all to gain was Johnson himself.\nAL\nFigure that out. Remember all points. Also.\njoas\nabout Oswald who had been a drifter all of his\nthem\nthe\nis\nthe\nlife suddenly decides to go to work in the book-\nthat\nonl:\nbinding blag weeks before Kennedy himself\nknew he was coming to Dallas. In other words\nwhere did Oswald get this information that far\nin advance about the future trip that Kennedy\nhimself didn't know he was going to make. It\nhad to be someone pretty high in Washington\nwho had made up Kennedy's mind about the\ntrip. All that was planned by Johnson. No one\nwould question the president about a conspiracy.\nIn other words Johnson could commit any\nFOR AUCTION: Description of\ncrime he cared to because he knew he was go-\nwhen it was put up for sole in\ning to be the president and have all the power\nhe needed.\nwould let it 20 at that. I\nThe shooting at the ex-general's home was man would deliberately\nto make beliève what a creckpot he is. That to president, it doesn't\nfool the people into thinking that there wasn't one had put him up to DEC\nany-any mative killing the president. and it promised him some\nwas 0. a eraty be made si 3"
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