material in here about the cia s role in the jfk story. they re trying to keep that out of public view. tom, let me ask you about another interesting finding that we found in these documents as you were going through. tell us about this apparent death threat called that was called in prior to oswald s murder. this is the first time we ve ever had a record that says there was a direct call to the fbi. this was from j. edgar hoover saying last night we received a call in our dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill oswald. now there were a lot of death threats from a lot of people in a lot of places at that time and jack ruby to be sure said he was not part of a group out there but many people have suspected maybe they were involved. another part in the papers where there s somebody out there opining about the idea that ruby and oswald were in concert and
fbi files we combed through reveal informant jack van hangingham shared a cell with him. he told us about jack ruby. marcello had met him in dallas, texas. marcello was talking about his favorite subject, the kennedys and being deported. he flew into a rage. i had that little son of a pitch killed and i d do it again. he was a thorn in my side. i wish i could have done it myself. the fbi asked marcello if he made the revealing statement a few years later. and marcello of course denied it. that indicates to me there was an informant report to that effect. the fbi had the classified recordings, then laningham says the tapes had marcello naming him as his hired gun. the tapes if released could help answer questions of conspiracy. you got to explain ruby and oswald. both of them have years of associations with mafia figures.
to him. we ll never know what oswald was going to say. was he just a lone nut case? a trial might have answered questions of conspiracy, but with oswald dead, investigators focused on ruby. how was he able to get that close to the most wanted man in the world. because all the cops in dallas liked him because he gave them free stuff including hookers. the actions by ruby in shootishoot ing oswald were not spontaneous in that he probably had assistance. he examined ruby s activities and unusual access to police headquarters. i certainly believe that officer dean who was in charge of security let jack ruby into the basement. pat trick dean s involvement has remained a question. he had failed a polygraph at the time of the investigation. investigation i m not sure was turned over to the fbi. but ruby s time with law enforcement went beyond dallas.
j. edgar hoover said back in 69 that they had had regular contact with jack ruby. david kaiser is a historian and author of the road to dallas. he couldn t make the payoff. he was looking for help wherever he could get it. jack ruby made calls to individuals associated with organized crime. the report about ruby s sister, ruby got a phone call right at this time and went in the other room and threw up. maybe he got a phone call that said, ruby, we need you to do something for us. but mark lane insists the cia had the means and the motive to kill kennedy. the cia decided better him than us and killed him. following the disastrous attempt to topple castro in the bay of pigs invasion, the president was furious with the cia. this was a struggle of cuban patriots. castro s troops outnumbered the cia-backed operation.