In his WC testimony, Ruby said that Jews were being tortured and
killed because he, a Jew, had been falsely accused of being part of a plot
to kill JFK..
QUOTE:
RUBY.
Now it is the most fantastic story you have ever heard in a lifetime. I
did something out of the goodness of my heart. Unfortunately, Chief Earl
Warren, had you been around 5 or 6 months ago .... and immediately the
President would have gotten ahold of my true story, or whatever would have
been said about me, a certain organization wouldn't have so completely
formed now, so powerfully, to use me because I am of the Jewish
extraction, Jewish faith, to commit the most dastardly crime that has ever
been committed.
* * * * *
Chief Justice WARREN. Well, I don't quite get the full significance of it,
Mr. Ruby. I know what you feel about the John Birch Society.
Mr. RUBY. Very powerful.
Chief Justice WARREN. I think it is powerful, yes I do. Of course, I don't
have all the information that you feel you have on that subject.
Mr. RUBY. Unfortunately, you don't have, because it is too late. And I
wish that our beloved President, Lyndon Johnson, would have delved deeper
into the situation, hear me, not to accept just circumstantial facts about
my guilt or innocence, and would have questioned to find out the truth
about me before he relinquished certain powers to these certain people.
Chief Justice WARREN. Well, I am afraid I don't know what power you
believe he relinquished to them. I think that it is difficult to
understand what you have to say.
Mr. RUBY. I want to say this to you. The Jewish people are being
exterminated at this moment.
* * * * *
Mr. RUBY. All I know is maybe something can be saved. Because right
now, I want to tell you this, I am used as a scapegoat, and there is no
greater weapon that you can use to create some falsehood about some of the
Jewish faith, especially at the terrible heinous crime such as the killing
of President Kennedy.
Now maybe something can be saved. It may not be too late, whatever
happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me.
[...]
But he has been told, I am certain, that I was part of a plot to
assassinate the President.
* * * * *
Chief Justice WARREN. Mr. Ruby, I think I can say this to you, that if he
has been told any such thing, there is no indication of any kind that he
believes it.
Mr. RUBY. I am sorry, Chief Justice Warren, I thought I would be very
effective in telling you what I have said here. But in all fairness to
everyone, maybe all I want to do is beg that if they found out I was
telling the truth, maybe they can succeed in what their motives are, but
maybe my people won't be tortured and mutilated.
Chief Justice WARREN. Well, you may be sure that the President and his
whole Commission will do anything that is necessary to see that your
people are not tortured.
Mr. RUBY. No.
Chief Justice WARREN. You may be sure of that.
Mr. RUBY. No; the only way you can do it is if he knows the truth, that I
am telling the truth, and why I was down in that basement Sunday morning,
and maybe some sense of decency will come out and they can still fulfill
their plan, as I stated before, without my people going through torture
and mutilation.
UNQUOTE
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/ruby_j1.htm OR
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh5/html/WC_Vol5_0096a.htm
Jean