The Truth About the CIA and Jack Ruby

The psychiatrist who declared Oswald's killer insane was a contractor for the clandestine service

The story about the CIA doctor and the killer of JFK’s alleged assassin has circulated on the internet but not on major news sites. Is it true?

I asked myself that question after reading JFK researcher Greg Doudna’s revealing interview with John Curington, a lawyer for right-wing billionaire H.L. Hunt in 1963. Curington, who knew Ruby personally, says he believes the nightclub owner was ordered to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin who said he was a patsy. Gail Raven, another friend of Ruby’s, said the same thing to JFK Facts: “He had no choice.”

Curington and Raven’s story conflicts with the official theory that Ruby killed Oswald on the spur of the moment. The official story was buttressed by the expertise of Dr. Louis Jolyon West, chaiR of the department of psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma. In April 1964, West visited Ruby in his jail cell and reported that the nightclub owner had suffered an “acute psychotic break.” None of Ruby’s friends thought he was psychotic but West’s findings dovetailed with the official story that Oswald killed JFK for reasons known only to himself. Ruby, said Dr. West, killed Oswald because he was crazy.