http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/report/html/HSCA_Report_0089a.htm

[accessed May 26, 2011].

48. Posner, Case Closed, 46162.

49. "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy: Appendix 16: A Biography of Jack Ruby," National Archives and Records Administration website, page 781,

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appen dix-16.html#family

[accessed June 6, 2011].

50. Marrs, Crossfire, 38384. Dorfman would later develop a close working relationship with Jimmy Hoffa, the corrupt Teamsters Union president who despised RFK.

51. Ibid.; "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy: Appendix 16: A Biography of Jack Ruby," National Archives and Records Administration website, p. 801,

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-16.html#family

[accessed June 6, 2011]; Posner, Case Closed, 395.

52. Moldea, Hoffa Wars, 155.

53. Ibid., 16566; Marrs, Crossfire, 387; Davis, Mafia Kingfish, 18084.

54. "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy: Appendix 16: A Biography of Jack Ruby," National Archives and Records Administration website, p. 801,

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-16.html#family

[accessed June 6, 2011]. The HSCA's Robert Blakey says that the Warren Commission relied on Lenny Patrick-a Chicago hitman who grew up with Ruby-to prove that Ruby had no connection to organized crime. "Give me a break," Blakey said. "[Ruby's] operation was prostitution, a strip joint. And the women are on a circle that go to these clubs. People don't want to watch the same woman every week. And the union that runs this is mobdominated. And the place where he got them from, in New Orleans over to Dallas, was run by Carlos Marcello's brother." Telephone interview with Robert Blakey, July 8, 2011.

55. Moldea, Hoffa Wars, 152.

56. Kurtz, JFK Assassination Debates, 19899.

57. Giancana, Double Cross, 193.

58. Summers, Kennedy Conspiracy, 33540.

59. "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy: Appendix 16: A Biography of Jack Ruby," National Archives and Records Administration website, p. 802,

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-16.html#family

[accessed June 6, 2011]; Kurtz, JFK Assassination Debates, 196.

60. Marrs, Crossfire, 37.

61. Posner, Case Closed, 259. Oliver said she used a camera on 11/22 that did not exist in 1963.

62. Posner, Case Closed, 368.

63. Personal interview with Jim Leavelle, April 8, 2011, Dallas.

64. Telephone interview with Nancy Pelosi, May 26, 2011.

65. Posner, Case Closed, 396; "Testimony of Barnard S. Clardy," Warren Commission Hearings, vol. XII, p. 412, The John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage,

http://www.jfk-assassination.de/warren/wch/vol12/page412.php

[accessed June 8, 2011]; personal interview with Bill Alexander, Dallas, January 14, 2011.

66. Mel Ayton, "Why Jack Ruby Killed Lee Harvey Oswald," Crime, November 25, 2005,

http://www.crimemagazine.com/why-jack-ruby-killed-lee-harvey-oswald?page=57

[accessed August 2, 2011].

67. Telephone interview with Jim Cunningham, December 17, 2012. Cunningham, now an Episcopal Church deacon in his eighties, was working in his office near Love Field when the presidential motorcade went by on November 22.

68. "The Assassination: A Nonentity for History," Time, January 13, 1967,

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843229,00.html

[accessed June 8, 2011]; "Sequels: A Last Wish," Time, December 30, 1966,

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901898.00.html

[accessed June 8, 2011].

69. It is important to note that Oswald's transfer schedule was not the equivalent of a space launch; many realized it might not be precisely adhered to. The ten A.M. transfer time was tentative, and established to give the news media plenty of time to arrive and set up. Oswald's interrogating officers were not hurried to finish by anyone inside or outside the police department. See "Shooting of Oswald,"

http://www.jfk.org/go/exhibits/dallas/oswald-shooting

[accessed December 5, 2012], and "Testimony of Harry D. Holmes," Warren Commission Hearings, vol. VII,

http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh7/html/WC_Vol7_0153a.htm