Assassin
The Assassin Lyrics


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You're walking on some thin ice
Better choose your next step wisely
Not a threat but more a promise
That you shouldn't take too lightly

The straw that broke the camel's back
Instigated this merciless attack
Tempt not the Blade of the Assassin
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Tempt not the Blade of the Assassin
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The blacksmith's masterful creation
Tempered steel, sharpened to sever
Separation of the rotten from the rest
Swift and clean one cut lasts forever

Off with their heads!

Tempt not the Blade of the Assassin
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Tempt not the Blade of the Assassin
Assassin Assassin

Overall Meaning

The song "Assassin" by the band Muse is a warning to anyone who crosses the line and pushes someone over the edge. The opening lines "You're walking on some thin ice, Better choose your next step wisely, Not a threat but more a promise, That you shouldn't take too lightly" suggest that the person addressed in the song should be careful with their actions because there might be consequences they cannot handle. The straw that broke the camel's back instigated this merciless attack, indicating that something small and seemingly insignificant set off the subject to take violent action.


The refrain "Tempt not the Blade of the Assassin" draws a parallel between the subject of the song and an assassin, someone who kills for a living without remorse or hesitation. The blacksmith's masterful creation tempered steel, sharpened to sever, refers to the weapon the subject has chosen to use, which is probably a knife or a sword. The separation of the rotten from the rest, swift and clean one cut lasts forever is an expression of the decisiveness and precision the subject is capable of. In the end, the conclusion is "Off with their heads!" which is an execution method that has been used throughout history.


Line by Line Meaning

You're walking on some thin ice
You're in a precarious situation and need to be cautious.


Better choose your next step wisely
Your actions have consequences, choose them carefully.


Not a threat but more a promise
This is not a warning, it's a guarantee.


That you shouldn't take too lightly
Don't underestimate the seriousness of the situation.


The straw that broke the camel's back
This is the final event that caused a drastic reaction.


Instigated this merciless attack
This caused the assassin to carry out a brutal attack with no mercy.


The blacksmith's masterful creation
The blade forged by the blacksmith was expertly crafted.


Tempered steel, sharpened to sever
The blade was hardened to perfection, sharpened to easily cut through flesh.


Separation of the rotten from the rest
The assassin is only killing those who are causing harm or are corrupt.


Swift and clean one cut lasts forever
The killing is quick and efficient, with the victim never getting up again.


Off with their heads!
The heads of the victims are being cut off in a decisive blow.


Tempt not the Blade of the Assassin
Don't provoke or challenge the assassin, or you will regret it.


Assassin Assassin
The repeated use of 'Assassin' reinforces the deadly nature of the situation.


Tempt not the Blade of the Assassin
The refrain is repeated again to emphasize the danger that comes with provoking the assassin.


Assassin Assassin
This repeating refrain serves as a warning.




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@tomscott3

I have no respect for this museum since it perpetuates a lie. Coincidentally, tomorrow I will be speaking with one of the leading experts in the JFK assassination, Mr. Gary Fannin. I enjoy networking with leading experts in other fields that involve governmental actions because I'm hopeful that it will ultimately lead to eradicating the rampant corruption that permeates our government.

Very Best Regards,
Tom Scott
Author ā— Speaker ā— World's Leading Expert on the Corrupt U.S. Legal System
Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor
Our American Injustice System

ā€œTruth is treason in the empire of lies.ā€ ā€” Ron Paul, The Revolution: A Manifesto (United States: Grand Central Publishing, 2008), preface, p. 5.



@robertromero8692

@david arbuckle No, Jackie wasn't Ruby's motive. He was a very emotional man, prone to acts of violence. He greatly admired Kennedy, and actually thought he'd be hailed as a hero for killing Oswald.

Itā€™s absurd to think that a hit man for the mob would not shoot Oswald in the head, or at least his heart, when he was right next to Oswald and it would have been so easy for him to do so. Because Ruby actually shot Oswald in the stomach, Oswaldā€™s dying wasnā€™t a sure thing. In fact, he survived for almost two hours after the shooting. Indeed, Dr. Malcolm Perry, who worked on Oswald, told the Warren Commission that despite the severity of Oswaldā€™s injuries, he and his assistants ā€œwere very close, I think, to winning the battleā€¦At one point, once we controlled the hemorrhage and once I had control of the aorta and was able to stop the bleeding [in] that area, I actually felt we had a very good chance.ā€

To quote from a book about Ruby, ā€œRuby was, as his mother had been, an incessant talker. He was brash and mercurial and never would have been trusted with knowledge of any plot to silence Oswald that would cause him to wind up in the arms of the police.ā€

It was also known that Ruby loved his dogs (he called one of them his ā€œwifeā€). Yet he left them in the car while he was supposedly carrying out this carefully planned, orchestrated hit on Oswald.
When Ruby went to the Western Union office, there was only one customer ahead of him. If there had been two customers in front of him, or even if the lone customer had had a transaction that took the clerk just a minute or two longer to complete, or if the clerk, for whatever reason, took longer than he should have, or if he was interrupted by a telephone call, Ruby would not have been able to shoot Oswald. We know that the twenty-five-dollar money order Ruby sent that morning, and the receipt for it, were both stamped 11:17 a.m. and that Ruby shot Oswald four minutes later at 11:21 a.m., the Oā€™Neal Funeral Home logging the call it received for an ambulance at 11:21 a.m.

How long was Ruby in the basement before Oswald appeared and Ruby shot him? Although it is not completely in sync with the above times, we know it was less than a minute, probably in the vicinity of thirty seconds. Local television station KRLD was videotaping everything that was taking place in the basement area and furnished its tape to the Dallas Police Department. Dallas investigating officers Lieutenant C. C. Wallace and Lieutenant P. G. McCaghren, in a report to Chief Jesse Curry, said that they ā€œtimed the video tape from the time Lieutenant R. S. Pierceā€™s car left the basement and started out Main Street [the time Ruby entered and started to walk down the Main Street ramp] until the time the shot was fired. The time recorded on the video machine and checked twice was fifty-six (56) seconds.ā€ An NBC newsman testified before the Warren Commission that he saw Ruby coming down the Main Street ramp into the police basement ā€œnot more than fifteen to thirty secondsā€ before he shot Oswald. Ruby himself said he saw Oswald emerge from the jail office ā€œjust as I got to the bottom of the [Main Street] ramp.ā€

If Ruby was a hit man for the mob, how is it, then, that they would cut it that close? If Ruby was a hit man for organized crime, how is it that for at least five minutes or so before he shot Oswald, he wasnā€™t lying in wait for Oswald to appear in the basement garage of City Hall, but instead was approximately one and a half football fields away waiting for the person in front of him to complete his transaction so Ruby could wire his money to Karen Bennett Carlin? No one said it better than author Norman Mailer. If Ruby killed Oswald for the mob, he asks, ā€œWhy was Ruby standing [in] line [at the] Western Union waiting his turn to send $25 to a stripper while time kept floating away and Oswald might be moved at any moment?



@fobrien1

"McClelland "went to his grave" waiting almost 50 years to write a book co-authored with two known conspiracy theorists" terms

accepting for a moment that you are right , that mclellend wanted to write a book do please explain to the readers here why that would in any way discredit this FIRST HAND WITNESS . if he wrote a book explain to the readers here why that makes him un reliable or a liar , im sure they would be very interested , just as I am .

"after he lost his medical license in a real estate fraud case" terms

it appears you want the readers here to take simply take your word for this . im sure you can detail this ? complete with proof ? . I mean there must have been a court case ? , and im sure if he committed fraud and was found guilty that the law punished him ? . all this should be easily provable shouldn't it ? . a doctors licence is removed for medical malpractice , anything contrary to the oath they swore when becoming a doctor . fraud is the domain of the police , fbi etc . I look forward to reading the proof you have of your above claim .

"McClelland had become desperate and "cashed in."" terms

so he "CASHED IN " ? , I take it that that means YOU ARE SAYING that he earned lots of money from jfks death .in which case im sure you can detail via proof all these monies you claim he earned from jfks death .

you mention that mac perry mentions none of the "nonsense" , in fact I will quote you .

"Dr. Malcolm Perry, the senior doctor in the ER at that time, spews none of the nonsense about frontal shots espoused by McClelland" terms

as YOU say mac perry mentions none of the nonsense that mclellend espoused I must take it that you are saying that what mclellend said he saw SINCE DAY ONE , detailed in early 64 in testimony and SAME repeated up to his death 56 years later is a LIE . yet multiple parkland staff corroborated mclellend (including perry) , and as we now know multiple bethesday witnesses also . you mention none of this WHY ? . I think its obvious why .

MALCOLM PERRY, MD: In a note written at Parkland Hospital and dated, 11-22-63 Dr., Perry described the head wound as, "A large wound of the right posterior cranium..." (WC-V17:6--CE#392) Describing Kennedy's appearance to the Warren Commission's Arlen Specter Dr. Perry stated, "Yes, there was a large avulsive wound on the right posterior cranium...." (WC V3:368) Later to Specter: "...I noted a large avulsive wound of the right parietal occipital area, in which both scalp and portions of skull were absent, and there was severe laceration of underlying brain tissue..." (WC-V3:372) In an interview with the HSCA's Andy Purdy in 1-11-78 Mr. Purdy reported that "Dr. Perry... believed the head wound was located on the "occipital parietal" (sic) region of the skull and that the right posterior aspect of the skull was missing..." (HSCA V7:292-293) Perry told Mr. Purdy: "I looked at the head wound briefly by leaning over the table and noticed that the parietal occipital head wound was largely avulsive and there was visible brain tissue in the macard and some cerebellum seen..." (HSCA-V7:302-interview with Purdy 1-11-78.

these are original statements and testimony not later changed stories .

let me help you with the above . RIGHT POSTERIOR CRANIUM , PARIETEL / OCCIPITAL , OCCIPITAL , CEREBELLEUM. the occipital bone is at the REAR of the human head , between the ears . the bone covers an area as above at the REAR of the head between the ears , it goes down to the upper most of the neck and up to about the level of the top of the ears .

the cerebellum is located LOW on the REAR of the head , that is the under side of the REAR OF THE BRAIN in the low occipital area . would you care to inform the readers here how witnesses could possibly see cerebellum from a small bullet hole sized entry either at the EOP or in the crown (depending on what lone nutter you talk to ) or from the UPPER right front of the head ? .

"In fact, Perry remembers hardly seeing much of McClelland in the ER" terms

perry was a little distracted , or didn't you know that ? . he was quite busy trying to save jfks life , so I doubt he was all that interested in jotting down the names of all present in that room , when and how long they were there . what is important and what sadly for you is inescapable is that beyond any shadow of a doubt MCLELLEND WAS IN THE TRAUMA ROOM EXACTLY WHERE HE SAID HE WAS AND WHEN HE SAID HE WAS THERE .

"Apart from all that, ER doctors are not forensic scientists or pathologists, nor bullet trajectory experts; and thus should not be offering "expert" opinions on those subjects." terms

this is the idiocy where terms tries to tell us that trained/qualified doctors and nurses including would you believe NEUROSURGEONS cant be relied upon or trusted to know what part of a mans head they are looking at SIDE , FRONT , REAR lol lol . these trained and qualified medical people cant possibly be relied upon to look at a hole in a mans head and KNOW ITS A HOLE lol lol .

nurses and doctors , neurosurgeons etc are perfectly well qualified to offer medical opinions based on what they have seen with their own eyes and what they know to be medical fact .



@fobrien1

it depends on the version of a story they are pushing . they obviously are pushing the lone nut version of events , or should o say LONE NUTS . as they are also pushing the nonsense that ruby walked past that ramp saqw and heard all the commotion and wondered what it was all was about . so he thought HEY ILL WALK DOWN THIS RAMP AS THE COMMOTION SEEMS TO BE DOWN THERE , then saw lee and thought HEY ITS THAT OSWALD KID WHO SHOT THE PRESIDENT , and then thought HANG ON A MINUTE IS THAT A SMIRK I SEE ? , WELL IM GOING TO WIPE IT OFF HIS FACE . WOW SURE IS LUCKY I JUST HAPPEN TO BE CARRYING A PISTOL IN MY POCKET . BANG .

if anyone believes that i have other fairy tales they might like to hear .

ruby never came down that ramp . officer vaughan guarded the ramp , no one went down that ramp who was not authorized to do so . he passed not one but 3 polygraph tests (lie detecter tests ) in this regard . some people cite another man that was there called napoleon stating that he saw ruby on the ramp , this was not the case . no one saw ruby on that ramp .

vaughans superior (dean) also took a polygraph test . he even set his own questions , and HE FAILED . ill come back to mr dean .

there was a tv camera right across the street from the ramp entrance recording from a time well before ruby is said to have gone down the ramp . this camera would have had to have caught ruby walk along the street and turn right down the ramp , and it didnt . if ruby was on that film HELPING THE LONE NUT CASE you can bet we would have seen it a long time ago . we havent because it doesnt exist AND IT SHOULD EXIST if ruby went down that ramp . clearly the 6th floor museum are not deterred at all by this unavoidable problem . they just carry on as ever telling us that fairy tales are true .

so if ruby didnt go down that ramp (and we now know he didnt ) that means that ruby lied . he lied about going down the ramp and his reasons for being in that basement . so how did he get to that basement ? , he got there via a door in the back of the basement , and he went under the railing that was by that door . how do we know that ? cops and press in the basement saw him do it . there is film from the basement not long after ruby shot oswald , ive only ever seen it on mainstream tv one time , in the men who killed kennedy . in it the cameras are rolling and basement witnesses are saying on film where the man (ruby) came from , from that area in back and under the railings . so he came in there through the door behind the railings , that door led to a stairs going up that led to another door , and from there it can lead to a REAR DOOR . if you look on google maps now you will see the western union building , then a parking area , then the rear door of the police building . thats how ruby got in , and the hsca (who were no less dishonest than the warren commission ) did actually look in to this and from that we know that the above route is the route that ruby took .

back to mr dean . he said he had the door to the above mentioned stairs locked and that he had two men stationed there . there were two men there for a while , but they then were sent outside on traffic duty . so there then was no one guarding that door at all . dean said he had the door locked , if the door was locked why would it need guarding by two men ? .but we know that dean FAILED his polygraph , so i dont believe a word he said . thats not to say that he allowed ruby to get in or that he had any knowledge of what ruby would do . but he knew very quickly that his ass was in a sling , when he saw that it was ruby HE KNEW HIM , he was seen and heard saying JACK , GOD DAMN IT , YOU GOT US IN ONE HELL OF A FIX . meaning his pal jack had just put him (dean) well up sh-t creek with no paddles .

we also know that ruby had seemingly pretty unrestricted access in that police station from friday to that fateful sunday . he was photographed / filmed feet from oswald several times , plus he was again near oswald in press conference in which he corrected DA wade in regard the fair play for cuba committee . the warren commission decided to turn a blind eye to just how much influence ruby had in that police station . he they decided to conclude he knew just a small amount of cops , when in fact he knew hundreds . he left standing orders with his bartenders , COPS ETC WILL BE COMING IN , THEY WILL BE DRINKING FREE , CHARGE THEM FOR DRINKS AND ITS YOUR JOB . there had to have been numerous cops that saw ruby all that weekend in areas of the police station he had no right to be in , its not like he was hiding in the shadows . yet not one of them told him leave , why lose your free ride at the carousel club ? drinks and girls free ? . check out nancy perrin rich , her testimony is online , also she spoke in detail in mark lanes rush to judgement which is on youtube . she even said that DA WADE knew ruby . so ruby got in the door that led to the stairs , if indeed it was locked that means that someone A COP opened it for him . again this in no way means that anyone helping ruby access the basement had any idea what he would do . they just did their old pal jack a favor as they had all weekend .

if ruby didnt enter the basement in the manner he claimed for the reason he claimed AND HE DIDNT , that then means he lied . that he lied means he had something to hide . our friends in the warren commission and in the 6th floor museum clearly had no problem in ignoring all of the above .



@robertromero8692

@fobrien1 Itā€™s absurd to think that a hit man for the mob would not shoot Oswald in the head, or at least his heart, when he was right next to Oswald and it would have been so easy for him to do so. Because Ruby actually shot Oswald in the stomach, Oswaldā€™s dying wasnā€™t a sure thing. In fact, he survived for almost two hours after the shooting. Indeed, Dr. Malcolm Perry, who worked on Oswald, told the Warren Commission that despite the severity of Oswaldā€™s injuries, he and his assistants ā€œwere very close, I think, to winning the battleā€¦At one point, once we controlled the hemorrhage and once I had control of the aorta and was able to stop the bleeding [in] that area, I actually felt we had a very good chance.ā€

To quote from a book about Ruby, ā€œRuby was, as his mother had been, an incessant talker. He was brash and mercurial and never would have been trusted with knowledge of any plot to silence Oswald that would cause him to wind up in the arms of the police.ā€

It was also known that Ruby loved his dogs (he called one of them his ā€œwifeā€). Yet he left them in the car while he was supposedly carrying out this carefully planned, orchestrated hit on Oswald.
When Ruby went to the Western Union office, there was only one customer ahead of him.3 If there had been two customers in front of him, or even if the lone customer had had a transaction that took the clerk just a minute or two longer to complete, or if the clerk, for whatever reason, took longer than he should have, or if he was interrupted by a telephone call, Ruby would not have been able to shoot Oswald. We know that the twenty-five-dollar money order Ruby sent that morning, and the receipt for it, were both stamped 11:17 a.m. and that Ruby shot Oswald four minutes later at 11:21 a.m., the Oā€™Neal Funeral Home logging the call it received for an ambulance at 11:21 a.m.

How long was Ruby in the basement before Oswald appeared and Ruby shot him? Although it is not completely in sync with the above times, we know it was less than a minute, probably in the vicinity of thirty seconds. Local television station KRLD was videotaping everything that was taking place in the basement area and furnished its tape to the Dallas Police Department. Dallas investigating officers Lieutenant C. C. Wallace and Lieutenant P. G. McCaghren, in a report to Chief Jesse Curry, said that they ā€œtimed the video tape from the time Lieutenant R. S. Pierceā€™s car left the basement and started out Main Street [the time Ruby entered and started to walk down the Main Street ramp] until the time the shot was fired. The time recorded on the video machine and checked twice was fifty-six (56) seconds.ā€7 Indeed, an NBC newsman testified before the Warren Commission that he saw Ruby coming down the Main Street ramp into the police basement ā€œnot more than fifteen to thirty secondsā€ before he shot Oswald.8 Ruby himself says he saw Oswald emerge from the jail office ā€œjust as I got to the bottom of the [Main Street] ramp.ā€9
If Ruby was a hit man for the mob, how is it, then, that they would cut it that close? If Ruby was a hit man for organized crime, how is it that for at least five minutes or so before he shot Oswald, he wasnā€™t lying in wait for Oswald to appear in the basement garage of City Hall, but instead was approximately one and a half football fields away waiting for the person in front of him to complete his transaction so Ruby could wire his money to Karen Bennett Carlin? No one said it better than author Norman Mailer. If Ruby killed Oswald for the mob, he asks, ā€œWhy was Ruby standing [in] line [at the] Western Union waiting his turn to send $25 to a stripper while time kept floating away and Oswald might be moved at any moment?

Ruby often carried a gun, since he walked around with large amounts of cash.



@fobrien1

@Robert Romero sorry but you do seem to have missed the bit where multiples of basement witnesses ON FILM and in testimony said that ruby did not come down the ramp . that they saw him emerge from an area in back , from under the railings there , in which a door was behind that led to a stairs , that led to another door that patrick dean said he had two cops guarding . in fact no cops were guarding it at that time , they were sent to traffic duty .

in addition a tv camera was set up and running directly across the street from the ramp from i believe if memory serves me 30 minutes before ruby shot oswald . no film exists of ruby walking along and entering the ramp .

in regard your claim that ruby was some sort of hit man for the mob , well i made no such claim , nor did i ever infer such a thing .

as for your quote there , you seem to be quoting bugliosi quoting seth kantor , i have little faith in bugliosi or his book .

"he wasnā€™t lying in wait for Oswald to appear in the basement garage of City Hall, but instead was approximately one and a half football fields away"

the western union building was really only seperated from the rear door of city hall / the police station by a car parking area . it was a short walk . and as i have stated many witnesses refute that ruby walked down that ramp . and the hsca (who were no less deceptive or lying than the warren commission) were forced to agree that ruby did not enter the basement via the ramp as witnesses said . in fact officer vaughan who was guarding the ramp said ruby did not walk down the ramp , he took not one but atleast three polygraph tests and passed them all . meanwhile his boss pat dean took one polygraph , set his own questions and FAILED . so if ruby did not come down the ramp , and witnesses said he did not , then he came in via the door and stairs mentioned above . so ruby lied . the question then is WHY ? .

as for mailer well his book could hardly be called unbiased , its titled oswalds tale . the new york times reviewed it , they notoriously refuse to review any jfk conspiracy oriented books , even if they top the new york times bests seller list . so that they reviewed mailers book alone speaks volumes .



@tomscott3

You've obviously done your homework. I have no respect for this museum since it perpetuates a lie. Coincidentally, tomorrow I will be speaking with one of the leading experts in the JFK assassination, Mr. Gary Fannin. I enjoy networking with leading experts in other fields that involve governmental actions because I'm hopeful that it will ultimately lead to eradicating the rampant corruption that permeates our government.

Very Best Regards,
Tom Scott
Author ā— Speaker ā— World's Leading Expert on the Corrupt U.S. Legal System
Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor
Our American Injustice System

ā€œTruth is treason in the empire of lies.ā€ ā€” Ron Paul, The Revolution: A Manifesto (United States: Grand Central Publishing, 2008), preface, p. 5.



@NOTTHASAME

That Sir , well , it is a lie !
Ruby knew Oswald very well and Ruby used Oswald to place a rifle inside the book depository.
Oswald took the rifle inside the building that morning and placed it there for the actual shooter but the shooter was not Oswald.
Ruby was making money as a gun rumner , Ruby was involved in the black market of selling guns to the mob.
Ruby had acess to many different kinds of guns on the market and Ruby told Oswald to place the rifle in the exact place in the build , Oswald did it for a fee.
Oswald needed the money and Owald worked in the place and was the only one that could place the gun there without raising suspension.
Ruby had to hush (Oswald) or the selling of illegal guns to the mob would be revealed and the mob would have Ruby's ass.
Oswald said that he was a patsy , he was exactly that , a pasty to get the gun inside the building for the shooter but this shooter did not hit Kennedy with his shot , the shooter hit Governor Connelly.
The shot that hits Governor Connelly came from the book depository , it missed Kennedy because the shooter couldn't hit a moving target when the scope on the rifle was off and needed adjustment.
The trajectory of the shot was meant for a head shot but the scope was low and to the right abd hit Connelly instead.
Oswsld only role and unsuspecting was to place the rifle in the building on the sixth floor which he did that morning upon arriving to to work.
Ruby paid Oswald to place the package there as Ruby supplied all the shooters that day with the guns that were used in the assassination except for the headshot gun.
The headshot gun was a pistol with hollow point bullets that exploded or fragments on impact.

They were going to kill Kennedy that day , euther at the plaza or at the speaking arrangement in Dallas thst day.
They were set up at the speaking or dining hall where Kennedy was to speak if they abort call came while on the motorcade through the plaza.
Ruby was covering his own ass by taking out Oswald because it would have been uncovered in their gun running ventures.



@RobertR3750

ā€œWhat about the late night visit to the mortuary to fingerprint Oswaldā€™s corpseā€

That was simply the FBI confirming Oswaldā€™s prints. They did not want to rely solely on DPD. Your attempt to say this is ā€œproofā€ of a ā€œconspiracyā€ is a complete failure.

ā€œand the subsequent identification of a print on the gun that had not been sighted priorā€

NO fingerprints other than Oswaldā€™s were found on the Carcano.

ā€œor the Mauser rifle identified at the sceneā€

It is easy to confuse the Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano with the German Mauser* as well as with several other European military rifles. Firearms expert Monty C. Lutz prepared an exhibit for the HSCA showing five European-made riflesā€”the German Mauser among themā€”of very similar shape and size, all containing the same right-sided bolt handle (common on all bolt-action rifles), an ammunition magazine protruding below the receiver (immediately in front of the trigger guard), and bayonet studs (allowing a bayonet knife to be attached to the barrel of the rifle). Lutz testified that ā€œmany of these rifles could very easily have been confused with the [Italian-made] Mannlicher-Carcano to the person who did not make a complete and thorough examination of that particular rifle.ā€ Further, Lutz noted that the difference in caliber between the Italian Carcano and the German Mauser, about forty-thousandths of an inch, could hardly be determined by the naked eye.
There is no evidence to suggest that the officers peering down at the weapon between two stacks of boxes ever read the rifleā€™s markings. Moreover, the legend ā€œCAL. 6.5ā€ was stamped across the rear iron sight, which was partly obscured by the scope sight mounted above it, and therefore hardly visible to Eugene Boone and Seymour Weitzman.
In a 1967 interview, Weitzman said he had ā€œno doubtā€ that the rifle identified by the Dallas Police Department as being a 6.5-millimeter Carcano, and as having been found on the sixth floor of the Book Depository Building, is ā€œthe rifle we found. It was strictly a mistaken identity which anybody could make. If you know anything about guns, a Mauser is a Mauser. What make it is, what country it was made in, can easily be misidentified because mostly your Mauser mechanism looks very similar.ā€ Weitzman went on to say that the Carcano ā€œwas a Mauser-action rifleā€ and really was ā€œan Italian Mauser.ā€

* In one of the leading books on rifles and other small arms, the author writes that the Mannlicher-Carcano is even ā€œknown occasionally as the Mauser Paravicinoā€ and is, in fact, ā€œa modified Mauserā€ (Smith, Small Arms of the World, p.474). FBI firearms expert Robert A. Frazier testified that ā€œthe Mauser was one of the earliest, if not the earliest,ā€ of ā€œbolt-actionā€ rifles ā€œfrom which many others were copied. And since [the Mannlicher-Carcano] uses the same type of bolt system, it may have been [erroneously] referred to as a Mauser for that reasonā€ (3 H 394, WCT Robert A. Frazier).



@lebeautymarq8834

When questioned about who he was implicating in the assassination, Ruby said (in a lucid state) in another interview:

Ruby: I want to correct what I stated before too. The Vice President.

Reporter: The Vice President?

Ruby: When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson. If he was Vice President there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy.

Reporter: Would you explain again?

Ruby: Well, the answer is the man in office now.



@fobrien1

"he was lucky enough to get down that ramp" randy

once again your lack of proper research makes you look silly . unlike the warren commission the hsca (as lying and deceptive as they were ) did actually manage to interview many basement witnesses , and based on those interviews the hsca concluded that ruby did not come down the ramp but that he was seen entering the basement from an area in the rear of the basement where there was a door behind railings . in essence he was seen emerging from that area and under the railings . the office patrolling the ramp exit passed not one BUT 3 polygraph tests that NO ONE ruby or otherwise went down that ramp . while his boss dean having set HIS OWN QUESTIONS failed his polygraph .

"Oswald had that smirk on his face verified by his brother he lost control and shot Oswald" randy

are you really this silly or is just a fabulous act on your part ? . so was rubys brother in the basement ? im sure even you wont be so silly as to say he was . on top of that we have film footage of Oswald from the point he emerged from the elevator to when ruby murdered him , the smirk you mention is a figment of your very wild imagination .

even if at some point he had smiled , that in no way shows disrespect or guilt . for example the late jim leavelle said that he had spoken with Oswald enroute to the vehicle that would have transported him and he joked with Oswald that HE HOPED THAT IF ANYONE TAKES A SHOT AT HIM (Oswald ) THAT THEY WERE AS GOOD A SHOT AS HE WAS . leavelle said that Oswald (who had been upset a lot of the time and protesting his innocence ) still saw the humor in jims quip at that time and smiled and said to jim OH YOUR BEING MELODRAMATIC , I DONT THINK ANYONE WILL SHOOT AT ME . sadly Oswald was wrong .

you should THAT IS IF YOU EVEN KNOW is to tell the people reading this how ruby ADMITTED that his story (his reason for killing Oswald ) was concocted by his lawyer . his lawyer was aware only too well that if ruby was found guilty of pre meditated murder that that meant the death penalty . so he concocted the utter nonsense that ruby was a patriot killing the bad Oswald (ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT) so that he could spare poor Jackie a trial . it was all a nonsense .

in addition to the above there was a tv camera set up directly across the street from the ramp POINTING DIRECTLY AT IT filming from a time atleast 30 minutes prior to ruby killing Oswald and after that . THERE IS SURPRISE SURPRISE NO FILM FOOTAGE OF MR RUBY GOING DOWN THAT RAMP .

"that's what I believe" randy

you are entitled to your opinions and beliefs even if they may be silly . you are however not entitled to make inaccurate or untrue claims and state that they are fact . in essence , if you cant irrefutably prove what you claim DONT CLAIM IT .



@fobrien1

"wrong again" @Randy Harris

lol I shall look forward to your in depth refutation of my comment above with the raft of irrefutable proof that what I claimed is as you state WRONG . im sure that you have much irrefutable proof that what I posted is not only inaccurate and wrong but false , as I said I look forward to reading and reviewing all this lovely proof lol . but forgive me if I don't hold my breath waiting for it lol .

"ruby in his own words said thats he got down that ramp" randy

oh I see lol , ruby a murderer said something so it must be true , and you believe him . in that sense then im sure you also believe mr Oswald when he said IM JUST A PATSY . lol

"Oswald was suppose to be moved at 10 you're nuts" randy

so just so we are clear here , I mean we wouldn't want the readers to be confused by your rambling rants lol . you believe ruby the murdered came down the ramp BECAUSE HE SAID HE DID , not because you have a shred of proof that he did . and you classify ALL the witnesses in the basement as liars because they said HE DID NOT ENTER THE BASEMENT VIA THE RAMP that he came in from the area if a door in the rear under the railings . oh just so there is no confusion here are your words

"they're were a lot of people who lied" randy

so in direct reply to my FACTUAL claim that many basement witnesses saw ruby emerge from an area to the rear having come under the railings there , and that the hsca concluded that ruby did not come down that ramp . your reply is that all these witnesses WERE LIARS . lol these were police and press . but you say they are liars and you say ruby a murderer didnt lie . I just wanted to clarify your claims and logic (if one could call what you say logic lol) for the readers here . regardless of what ever time Oswald was or was not to be moved witnesses in the basement said that ruby DID NOT come down that ramp . that makes ruby a liar . but then he lied when he said he killed Oswald to save poor Jackie a trial . he admitted that his lawyer concocted that nonsense . so ruby has previous for lying doesn't he ? .



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@robertreed175

I'm curious if Mark Shaw had anything to do with this museum expanding their exhibits to include Jack Ruby. Mark Shaw has stated prior to this presentation that this museum was only interested in Lee Oswald as the "lone shooter." Mark has a copy of the Ruby trial transcripts that he tried to v pass to the museum. They refused. I think b Mark Shaw deserves some credit here.

@tomscott3

I have no respect for this museum since it perpetuates a lie. Coincidentally, tomorrow I will be speaking with one of the leading experts in the JFK assassination, Mr. Gary Fannin. I enjoy networking with leading experts in other fields that involve governmental actions because I'm hopeful that it will ultimately lead to eradicating the rampant corruption that permeates our government.

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ā€œTruth is treason in the empire of lies.ā€ ā€” Ron Paul, The Revolution: A Manifesto (United States: Grand Central Publishing, 2008), preface, p. 5.

@bobma6342

Good question. Interesting question.

@Johnconno

CIA contributed the Presidents frontal lobe in a mason jar.

@rawbacon

Obviously there's no truth to your comment. I was there in the 90s and they had Ruby material then but keep pushing your nonsensical conspiracy fantasies so you don't have to deal with reality.

@Thekarlskorner

Ruby's phone records in the month before the JFK assassination says it all. Ruby was directed by people who controlled him to kill Oswald and his stalking of Oswald is recorded. Ruby's press statement prior to his death should be watched and listened to his words. These three things alone imply more than what is presented here.

@robertromero8692

Ruby's phone calls were about labor troubles. He explicitly denied there was any conspiracy.

@davidarbuckle7236

@Robert Romero Yes, of course. He was just so upset about Jackie Kennedy that he needed to kill Oswald to save her from any more grief? LOL, Some people will believe anything. Ruby was camped out at the Police Station all weekend.He had a job. Kill Oswald. And he did it.

@robertromero8692

@david arbuckle No, Jackie wasn't Ruby's motive. He was a very emotional man, prone to acts of violence. He greatly admired Kennedy, and actually thought he'd be hailed as a hero for killing Oswald.

Itā€™s absurd to think that a hit man for the mob would not shoot Oswald in the head, or at least his heart, when he was right next to Oswald and it would have been so easy for him to do so. Because Ruby actually shot Oswald in the stomach, Oswaldā€™s dying wasnā€™t a sure thing. In fact, he survived for almost two hours after the shooting. Indeed, Dr. Malcolm Perry, who worked on Oswald, told the Warren Commission that despite the severity of Oswaldā€™s injuries, he and his assistants ā€œwere very close, I think, to winning the battleā€¦At one point, once we controlled the hemorrhage and once I had control of the aorta and was able to stop the bleeding [in] that area, I actually felt we had a very good chance.ā€

To quote from a book about Ruby, ā€œRuby was, as his mother had been, an incessant talker. He was brash and mercurial and never would have been trusted with knowledge of any plot to silence Oswald that would cause him to wind up in the arms of the police.ā€

It was also known that Ruby loved his dogs (he called one of them his ā€œwifeā€). Yet he left them in the car while he was supposedly carrying out this carefully planned, orchestrated hit on Oswald.
When Ruby went to the Western Union office, there was only one customer ahead of him. If there had been two customers in front of him, or even if the lone customer had had a transaction that took the clerk just a minute or two longer to complete, or if the clerk, for whatever reason, took longer than he should have, or if he was interrupted by a telephone call, Ruby would not have been able to shoot Oswald. We know that the twenty-five-dollar money order Ruby sent that morning, and the receipt for it, were both stamped 11:17 a.m. and that Ruby shot Oswald four minutes later at 11:21 a.m., the Oā€™Neal Funeral Home logging the call it received for an ambulance at 11:21 a.m.

How long was Ruby in the basement before Oswald appeared and Ruby shot him? Although it is not completely in sync with the above times, we know it was less than a minute, probably in the vicinity of thirty seconds. Local television station KRLD was videotaping everything that was taking place in the basement area and furnished its tape to the Dallas Police Department. Dallas investigating officers Lieutenant C. C. Wallace and Lieutenant P. G. McCaghren, in a report to Chief Jesse Curry, said that they ā€œtimed the video tape from the time Lieutenant R. S. Pierceā€™s car left the basement and started out Main Street [the time Ruby entered and started to walk down the Main Street ramp] until the time the shot was fired. The time recorded on the video machine and checked twice was fifty-six (56) seconds.ā€ An NBC newsman testified before the Warren Commission that he saw Ruby coming down the Main Street ramp into the police basement ā€œnot more than fifteen to thirty secondsā€ before he shot Oswald. Ruby himself said he saw Oswald emerge from the jail office ā€œjust as I got to the bottom of the [Main Street] ramp.ā€

If Ruby was a hit man for the mob, how is it, then, that they would cut it that close? If Ruby was a hit man for organized crime, how is it that for at least five minutes or so before he shot Oswald, he wasnā€™t lying in wait for Oswald to appear in the basement garage of City Hall, but instead was approximately one and a half football fields away waiting for the person in front of him to complete his transaction so Ruby could wire his money to Karen Bennett Carlin? No one said it better than author Norman Mailer. If Ruby killed Oswald for the mob, he asks, ā€œWhy was Ruby standing [in] line [at the] Western Union waiting his turn to send $25 to a stripper while time kept floating away and Oswald might be moved at any moment?

@davidarbuckle7236

@Robert Romero The problem with that idea is that Ruby had right-wing tapes of Howard Hunt in his car with the dogs when he shot Oswald. That whole line that he was fond of the Kennedys is total nonsense. It is almost as ridiculous as Oswald being in Mexico City trying to get a Visa to go to Russia. It didn't happen.

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