Kantor, Seth. The Ruby Cover-Up. New York: Zebra Books, 1992. 450 pages.
Seth Kantor was a Dallas reporter on November 22, 1963, who knew Jack
Ruby and exchanged small talk with him at Parkland Hospital one hour after
Kennedy was shot. But Ruby denied he was there. The Warren Commission
couldn't afford to question Ruby's credibility -- their whole "lone nut"
theory was at stake -- so they decided Kantor was mistaken. Burt W. Griffin,
the Commission's man on this issue, has reversed himself since reading
this book (which first appeared in 1978), and the House Committee in 1979
backed Kantor's version also. This is the best and most comprehensive
treatment of the life and associations of Jack Ruby that is currently
available. It provides the broad CIA-Mafia background in considerable
detail, as well as treating issues such as how Ruby got into the Dallas
police basement.
One event described by Kantor seems suspicious to many researchers.
In 1963 Harold (Hal) Hendrix was a Scripps-Howard reporter in Miami with
good CIA connections; he wrote about the September 25 coup in the Dominican
Republic the day BEFORE it happened. Hendrix had information about Oswald's
Fair Play for Cuba activities and his defection to the USSR a mere three
hours after Oswald's name was on the wires, and gave this information to
Kantor. Three years later Hendrix went to work for ITT, and his name
became well-known during the CIA-ITT-Chile scandal of the early 1970s.
ISBN 0-8217-3920-4
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