University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, September 27, 1978
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Ruby's act said his own
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earl Ruby testified yesterday that his brother Jake insisted until his death that he had acted on an impulse and without help when he barged through Dallas police lines and broured Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
Ruby told the House Assassinations Committee that he had asked his brother why he had shot Shoalwyn, the accused assassin of Oswald. Ruby said it was "not a question."
Ruby also testified that his brother said he had never known Owald before he shot him.
"When I saw him come through that smirk on his face, as though he were happy he killed the president. I just lost control."
JACK RUBY was convicted by a Texas state court of murdering Oswald. He was sentenced to death. The conviction was overturned by the Texas Supreme Court and Ruby was awaiting a new trial when he died of cancer on Jan. 3, 1967.
Ruby said his brother insisted until his death that he alone was responsible for Oswald's murder—an event witnessed on television by millions of horror-striken Americans two days after Kennedy's assassination.
The testimony came as the committee considered various theories that critics of the Warren Commission have espoused in efforts to discredit the commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy and that Rudolf Acte acted in killing
Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator, was eulogized by Rabbi David Grabert as "a misguided patriot."
"ON THE surface, Ruby was an avenger," Rabbi Graubert said at Ruby's funeral in his native Chicago. "He was an avenger of blood who pursued the manslayer while the blood was hot. He was a misjudged avenger—a misjudged patriot."
On conspiracy buff, however, has contended that the Warren Commission ignored evidence that Rubey agreed in 1890 to be an
informant for the D.B.
Author Mark Lane, an attorney who now represents James Earl
Ray, the confessed killer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has said the commission learned of Rutie's possible conspiracy with the FBI and is considering it a matter of public interest.
Lane said the commission failed to mention the letter in either its report or 28 volumes of evidence.
The letter said, in part, that Ruby was contacted on March 11, 1989, by an FBI agent in Dallas "in view of his position as a nightclub operator who might have knowledge of the criminal element in Dallas . . ."
DURING ITS MONTH-LONG series of hearings on the Kennedy case, the house committee has investigated various questions still hanging over the Warren Commission report about 14 years after it sent to then-President Lyndon B. Johnson and the American people.
Although Earl Ruby testified that his brother insisted he had acted alone in killing Oswald, Jack Ruby seemed to have a penchant for writing notes from his Texas jail cell indicating otherwise.
Less than a month after Ruby died, the Dallas Times-Herald reported Ruby had written a note smuggled out of the Dallas jail, saying that she was planning to run from it.
The contents of the note were made public by a jail repairman who said Ruby had slipped him the message as they shook hands.
THE REPAIRMAN SAID at the time that he did not wish his name to be used because one line of the short note allegedly read: "Your life would be in danger if they knew you knew all of this." He did not identify the "they" mentioned in the note.
A Secret Service agent has said that Ruby, when asked about the Oswald alaying, pinpointed the trigger-pulling urge this way: "I [was] not a terrorist," he said.
That is what agent Forrest V. Sorrens said Ruby told him immediately following Oswald's slaying, when the Secret Service was trying to determine whether there had been a conspiracy to kill the president or whether Oswald had acted alone.
Gas blamed for deaths
ST. LOUIS (AP)—Methyl bromide gas is the most probable cause of a mysterious illness that killed two members of a family and put two others on the criticallist.
The source of the chemical that killed Bonnie Boyer, 36, eight days ago, and her 13-year-old son Barry on Thursday remains a mystery.
Howard Schwartz, director of emergency medicine at St. Louis University Hospital, told a news conference yesterday that elevated levels of methyl bromide were found in all four members of the Pevely, Mo., family.
HE SAID the chemical might have come from a number of pieces of stolen insulation from his father, Robert Boyer, although Schwartz said he had no hard evidence to support his claim.
He said the manufacturer of the insulation
assured him methyl bromide was not used in the material.
Peverly Police Chief Robert P. Perkins said the insulation had the brand name Dow on it. Insulation has been stolen from a Dow on it. Plant near Peverly in the past, Perkins said.
It was also disclosed during the news conference that 12 sheets of insulation placed in the Boyer home on or about Sept. 14 were being tested by a seven-man team from Dow and representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Perkins said any possible arrests would be based on findings of the EPA and other investigators. He said he had a suspect in the theft of the insulation.
TANYA BOYER, 16, had improved sufficiently from the illness affecting her and her father Robert, 36, so that she could be removed from the critical list, authorities said.
Robert Boyer remained in critical condition. He was described as improved, but doctors he remained semicomatose, confused and unable to answer questions.
The tragic mystery began Sept. 19. Barry was found lying on a couch and Tanya on the floor. Both were dressed in night clothes and were convulsing.
Robert Boyer, an Army recruiter, was dressed in his Army uniform, attaching a necklace. His wife happened. His wife was lying on a bedroom floor, dressed in a robe and covered with a
Authors were notified, and families living nearby in the city of about 1,087 were evacuated briefly. Pevely is about 30 miles south of St. Louis.
The family had been living in the basement of a house that Boyer had started to build. He put a roof over the basement after deciding to finish the house later.
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Airport use causes worry
WASHINGTON (AP) -The collision between a commercial airliner and a private plane over San Diego Monday tragically highlights the growing concern over use of major commercial airports by private aircraft.
The problem is not now, but as the number of private planes increases, the skies are more crowded.
“It’s an age-old controversy,” spokesman Ed Slattery of the National Transportation Safety Board said recently. “In the airline business they have 2,400 airplanes, and in general aviation they have 185,000—and they have a right to the skies, you know.”
IN CONTRAST TO the 185,000 private parties today, 10 years ago the number was 127.
"What it boils down to," Slattery said, "is bandline traffic."
The federal Aviation Administration has a policy of trying to get light planes away from major airports, FAA spokesman Fred Farraar said.
"That's been our policy for quite a few years."
Farrar said the FAA had been encouraging construction of so-called relief airports, to take light plane traffic away from the major fields.
But he noted that in Monday's accident
the Cessna light plane was practicing instrument landings.
"TO DO that you have to go where there is an instrument approach system," he said.
The number of airports in metropolitan areas is declining and many privately owned fields are finding it uneconomical to stay in business, she said.
"We would like to have reliever airports for general aviation and have supported this concept since it was introduced in 1960." Pilots, aircraft Owners &飞业 Association said.
In Monday's accident, she said, use of the San Diego field was necessary because of the need for instrument approach equipment. She advised that all airplane airport buildings should be flotuated.
AND OTHER airports carry up to three times the general aviation traffic of San Francisco.
The possibility of collisions between commercial and private aircraft is "an area of increasing concern to the board." Slattery said.
He said the safety board was considering national hearings on the problem, spurred by complaints.
Only two weeks ago, he said, there was a
near collision between a private plane and an airliner at Roanoke, Va.
And in late August the board conducted hearings in New York on a near collision in which North Central Airlines DC-9 with 96 passengers crashed, killing both were both cleared to use the same runway.
The smaller plane aborted takeoff and swerved to avoid the larger one. No one was
OFFICIALS HAD no immediate ex-
ception to their vision. Visibility at the time of the crash was 10 miles.
In Monday's accident, in which at least 150 persons died, "both planes were given air traffic advisories that they were in the same area and both aircraft acknowledged that they had the other plane in sight." FAA spokesman Bruce Chambers said in Los Angeles.
In written testimony for a congressional hearing, O'Donnell said the technology had been tested.
Meanwhile, John O'Donnell, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, criticized the FAA for not pushing development of a design designed to prevent such collisions.
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