No Conspiracy Involving Oswald or Ruby
No Conspiracy Involving Oswald or Ruby The Commission found no evidence that either Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby was part of any domestic or foreign conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, based on extensive investigation: no evidence exists that anyone assisted Oswald in planning or carrying out the assassination, after review of the motorcade route planning, Oswald’s October 1963 hiring by the Texas School Book Depository, how the rifle was brought into the building, carton placement at the firing window, Oswald’s escape from the building, and eyewitness testimony to the shooting; no evidence links Oswald to any person or group in a conspiracy to kill the President, after investigation of his associations, finances, personal habits, and activities after his June 1962 return from the Soviet Union; no evidence shows Oswald was employed, persuaded, or encouraged by any foreign government to carry out the assassination, or that he was a foreign government agent, after review of his 1959-1962 defection to and life in the Soviet Union, his Fair Play for Cuba Committee contacts, his September-October 1963 visits to Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City, and his contacts with the Soviet Embassy in the U.S.; no evidence connects his attempts to affiliate with political groups including the Communist Party USA, Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and Socialist Workers Party to the assassination; no evidence supports speculation that Oswald was an FBI, CIA, or other U.S. government agent, employee, or informant, after thorough investigation of his pre-assassination relationships with all U.S. government agencies, with all contacts found to be part of the agencies’ regular duties; no direct or indirect relationship between Oswald and Ruby has been found, nor credible evidence that either knew the other, after investigation of all rumors and speculation of such a link; no evidence shows Ruby acted with any other person in killing Oswald; and no credible evidence shows Ruby knew Officer Tippit, or that Oswald knew Tippit. The Commission notes that while proving a negative to absolute certainty is difficult, any evidence of others being involved with Oswald or Ruby has not been uncovered by all U.S. investigative agencies and has not come to the Commission’s attention.
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