(1)
Joachim
Joesten, How Kennedy was Killed: The Full Appalling Story
(1968)
What are
my reasons for believing that Larry Crafard is the person
who deliberately impersonated Oswald over a period of
several weeks, manifestly for the purpose of planting false clues
that would incriminate Oswald after the assassination and
thus divert attention from the real murderers of the President?
While
I cannot go into the matter at any length here I shall briefly
outline some of the points of evidence which I have developed
in Oswald: The Truth. In the first place, the Warren Report
itself notes that 'Ruth Paine testified that Crafard's photograph
bears a strong resemblance
to Oswald.'
Secondly,
the Report recounts an episode in which a Dallas electronics
salesman, Robert K. Patterson, and two of his associates
expressed the belief that they had seen Ruby in the company
of Oswald, enter their store. The Commission however,
established that Ruby's companion on this occasion was Larry
Crafard.
Thirdly,
about half a dozen people testified, or told the police
or the FBI, that they had seen a person resembling Oswald
at the Carousel Club, while the real Lee Harvey Oswald,
according to the Commission, never set foot there
In the
fourth place, Larry Crafard, again according to the Commission,
lived at the Carousel Club while working for Ruby from mid-October
until the day after the assassination when he hurriedly left.
It is particularly worthy of note that the time when Crafard took
up his job with Ruby closely coincides with the time Oswald was
planted at the Texas School Book Depository by solicitous but
false friends who procured the job for him.
The clincher,
however, is the testimony of a waitress at the B & B Cafe
in Dallas, next door to the Carousel Club who
stated, in a Dallas police affidavit, that she had served Ruby
and Oswald together at 3 a.m. on the morning of November
22th, Assassination Day.
Now,
it is established beyond a shadow of doubt that Oswald at that
time was asleep with his family at the Paine place
in Irvmg. And, what's much more important, Crafard himself told
the FBI that he had had breakfast with ruby at the B & B Cafe
in the morning of November 22, between 2.30 and 3.30 a.m.
(2)
Seth Kantor, Who Was Jack Ruby? (1978)
The camera
was a gimmick of Ruby's, used for taking good-natured pictures
of volunteer customers dancing the twist with the strippers, as
part of the show. Then the pictures would be made available to
the customers as free souvenirs. When Crafard got in the car with
the camera, about 5 a.m., Ruby didn't bother to tell him where
they were going or
what he was supposed to shoot.
Ruby
drove to the location of the impeachment sign posted on the side
of a building in a prominent location at the edge of downtown
Dallas. Three pictures were taken of it. Ruby was excited because
the sign encouraged people who wanted Earl Warren ousted to write
to post office box no. 1754 - a number vaguely similar to post
office box no. 1792 in the Weissman ad. Ruby thought he was on
to Something Big.
"He
is trying to combine these two together," Senator recalled,
"which I did hear him say, 'This is the work of the John
Birch Society or the Communist Party or maybe a combination of
both.' "
Later
in the day, Saturday, Ruby would telephone his friend Weird Beard,
the disc jockey, and ask who is this Earl Warren.
From
the signboard the three drove to the main post office, where Ruby
tried to get the night clerk to tell him who paid for box 1792.
The clerk said he wasn't permitted to give out such information
and said it would have to come from the postmaster. Ruby looked
through a slot in no. 1792 and grew angry when he saw it was filled
with responses. His
anger seemed to build as the three then went to the coffee shop
in the Southland Hotel. Senator recalled that Ruby's "voice
of speech ... was different and... he had sort of a stare look
in his eye." Ruby was miserable. The killing of President
Kennedy in Dallas... the Weissman ad... the Earl Warren sign...
it was all going to reflect badly on the city.
(3)
Gaeton
Fonzi,
speech on receiving the Mary
Ferrell-JFKLancer Pioneer Award (21st November 21, 1998)
Is there
any doubt that the Warren Commission deliberately set out not
to tell the American people the truth? There is a brief glimpse,
an illustration of the level at which that deceit was carried
out, in an incident that occurred during the Warren Commission's
investigation. Commission chairman Earl Warren himself, with then
Representative Gerald Ford at his side, was interviewing a barman,
Curtis LaVerne Crafard. Crafard had worked at Jack Ruby's Carousel
Club before he was seized by FBI men as he was hightailing it
out of town the day after the assassination, having told someone,
"They are not going to pin this on me!"
In the
interview, Warren asks Craford what he did before he was a bartender.
"I
was a Master sniper in the Marine Corps," Craford answered.*
The next
question that Warren immediately asked was: "What kind of
entertainment did they have at the club?"
