If LBJ or anyone at high level in government wanted to eliminate Oswald, why employ a man like Jack Ruby to do the job in such a public way? A better way might have been the "suicide in his jail cell" ploy. With Ruby shooting Oswald, it comes off as an utter botch. It's all just so weird.
Interesting thing about LBJ is that he won in 1964 because he portrayed his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, as some kind of extremist warmonger. But LBJ did do some good things in that he continued to support JFK's position on Civil Rights and signed the Civil Rights Act, as well as the Great Society program to help the people. But his policies in Southeast Asia were another story entirely.
Oswald did say he was a patsy. I do agree that Ruby's story that he loved the Kennedys so much that he had to do it doesn't really hold water. Even if that was the case, it doesn't make sense to do that, since it still wasn't really clear at that point that Oswald was guilty (in fact, some people still aren't clear about that), and even if he was, it's not clear if anyone else might have been involved. I would think that anyone who loved Kennedy, even despite whatever anger and hatred they might have for Oswald, they would understand that the better solution is to keep Oswald alive in order to get the full story and possible information about anyone else who might be involved.
