The police converged on the theater, stopped the movie and turned on the lights. They stood on the stage and asked Brewer to identify the man he saw in the shoe store. He picked out Oswald who gave up after a struggle with the police.

SAYS GARY MACK: The police arrested someone else that day and a witness saw him taken out the back of the Texas Theater. But there are no records of any other arrests except Oswald's on November 22.

SAYS JIM MARRS: I think Oswald climbed into the cop car and they drove him to the Theater. It was a set-up—obviously Oswald was told to go there and another person was used to lure the police to the theater.

SAYS GERALD POSNER: The irony is that Oswald is a man who failed at everything he tried. The only thing he manages to pull off, no one gives him any credit for. The Dallas police should have received accolades for breaking this case in a matter of hours, and yet they were never given credit either.

Don't be confused by the Western Union office across the street; sightseers who don't know that the office moved across the street often stand in front of the wrong building at 2121 Main.

DAVE PERRY SAYS: The argument has always been that Ruby planned to kill Oswald, but he claimed that he went to City Hall (a half block from the Western Union office) because he noticed a commotion. Why would he have stopped first to wire money to stripper Little Lynn and why would he have left his beloved dachsund Sheba in the car unless his actions were entirely unpremeditated?

GARY MACK SAYS: Ruby's Mafia connection was documented by the Warren Commission, but that does not mean the mob was involved in Kennedy's death. Those who knew Ruby testified that he had a hot temper and would do things on the spur of the moment.

SAYS JIM MARRS: Just turn those arguments around. Oswald was supposed to be transferred at 10 in the morning, but he still hadn't left by 11:30. The police didn't transfer him until Ruby was in position and Ruby was dragging his heels because he was trying to get out of it.

SAYS GERALD POSNER: Oswald was late being transferred to the county jail because he wanted to change shirts. The only way there could be a conspiracy here is that he was in a conspiracy to kill himself and purposely delayed his transfer so that Ruby could get to the city jail in time to kill him.

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