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Lee Harvey Oswald’s Assassin Knew JFK Would Be Murdered

Hidden files expose ‘wide-ranging conspiracy!’

By National ENQUIRER Staff

Dec 12, 2017 @ 11:51AM

Lee Harvey Oswald’s Assassin Knew JFK Would Be Murdered

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Jack Ruby knew President John F. Kennedy was going to be murdered hours before the assassination — and a forensics expert told The National ENQUIRER that evidence supports a “wide-ranging conspiracy” to kill Kennedy!

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The revelation about the role of Ruby (shown here in front of the Dallas Book Depository) was buried in never-before-seen FBI records from April 1977 that detail information provided by Dallas-based confidential informant Bob Vanderslice.

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The Vanderslice papers are “the first evidence released directly from the government that expose the existence of a wide-ranging conspiracy” to assassinate Kennedy, forensics expert Stephen Jaffe told The ENQUIRER.

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“Alone and on its merits, it speaks directly to the existence of a plot to kill the president!” added Jaffe, the last surviving member of the investigative team formed by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (left) to probe JFK’s killing.

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According to the FBI docs, Vanderslice told agents that Ruby contacted him on the morning of the assassination to ask if he'd "‘like to watch the fireworks,’" and he joined Ruby at the scene of the shooting.

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Two days later, Ruby (lower right) shot and killed JFK’s alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby, a nightclub owner with Mafia ties, later claimed he killed Oswald to save First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy “the discomfiture of coming back” to Dallas for the accused assassin’s trial.

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In its probe of JFK’s killing, the Warren Commission ruled Ruby (shown in front of his club, Carousel) acted alone, although experts have long suspected he was carrying out the orders of organized crime figures who wanted Oswald silenced.

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What’s more, the previously accepted timeline of Ruby’s whereabouts on the day Kennedy was killed — Nov. 22, 1963 — put him in the Dallas Morning News building, where he was buying ads for his nightclubs. That building is located five blocks from Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy was shot.

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Vanderslice’s information was just released as part of an FBI document dump containing some 13,200 never-before-seen Warren Commission reports. Besides exposing a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, Vanderslice’s account “is consistent” with Ruby’s phone records, according to Jaffe.

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“[Ruby] had been on the phone nonstop for hours on end with his mob connections in Chicago in the days leading up to Kennedy’s assassination,” Jaffe told The ENQUIRER. “I presume in those hours that Ruby got the instruction that he had to eliminate the patsy, or Oswald.”

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According to the Vanderslice documents, the Dallas IRS office in March 1977 reached out to the FBI's Dallas office with “information from a confidential informant that might be helpful in the investigation of the Kennedy assassination.”

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That informant was Vanderslice, who’d met with Arlen Fuhlendorf, a manager in the Dallas IRS office, weeks earlier. Vanderslice told him about Ruby's invitation “to watch the fireworks,” according to the documents.

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