A problem with the headline news about Jack Ruby and the JFK Files and an FBI informant

What follows is Jack Ruby’s movements from three hours before the assassination until an hour after the murder itself.   It is from pages 411-12 of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (Random House, 1993) and is based on contemporaneous FBI interviews of witnesses at the Dallas Morning News, as well as some of their subsequent testimony to the Warren Commission,  (all citations are listed in Case Closed)

The unequivocal conclusion: Jack Ruby was in the second floor of the Dallas Morning News offices through the assassination.  The News building was five blocks from Dealey Plaza.  Ruby could not have been standing at the corner of the Postal Annex Building facing the Texas School Book Depository Building, as claimed almost 14-years after the assassination by an FBI informant, Bob Vanderslice.

[[[On Friday, November 22, Ruby was up by 9: 30 and at the Dallas Morning News shortly before 11: 00, in order to place his regular weekend advertisements for his two nightcl…