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'''Jack Leon Ruby''' (born '''Jacob Leon Rubenstein'''; March 25, 1911<ref>The [[Warren Commission]] found that various dates were given in the records for Ruby's birth; the one most used by Ruby himself was March 25, 1911 (''The Warren Report: Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'', 1964). His tombstone at Westlawn Cemetery, Chicago has April 25, 1911 as his birthdate</ref> – January 3, 1967) was a nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas. He shot and killed [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], who was in police custody after being charged with the [[JFK Assassination|assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]] two days earlier.
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'''Jack Leon Ruby''' (born '''Jacob Leon Rubenstein'''<ref>The [[Warren Commission]] found that various dates were given in the records for Ruby's birth; the one most used by Ruby himself was March 25, 1911 (''The Warren Report: Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'', 1964). His tombstone at Westlawn Cemetery, Chicago has April 25, 1911 as his birthdate</ref> – January 3, 1967) was a nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas. He shot and killed [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], who was in police custody after being charged with the [[JFK Assassination|assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]] two days earlier.
 
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Dallas Deputy Sheriff [[Al Maddox]] claimed: "Ruby told me, he said, 'Well, they injected me for a cold.' He said it was cancer cells. That's what he told me, Ruby did. I said you don't believe that bullshit. He said, 'I damn sure do!' [Then] one day when I started to leave, Ruby shook hands with me and I could feel a piece of paper in his palm… [In this note] he said it was a conspiracy and he said... if you will keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, you're gonna learn a lot. And that was the last letter I ever got from him."<ref name="Crossfire"/>
 
Dallas Deputy Sheriff [[Al Maddox]] claimed: "Ruby told me, he said, 'Well, they injected me for a cold.' He said it was cancer cells. That's what he told me, Ruby did. I said you don't believe that bullshit. He said, 'I damn sure do!' [Then] one day when I started to leave, Ruby shook hands with me and I could feel a piece of paper in his palm… [In this note] he said it was a conspiracy and he said... if you will keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, you're gonna learn a lot. And that was the last letter I ever got from him."<ref name="Crossfire"/>
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Not long before Ruby died, according to an article in the London ''[[The Sunday Times|Sunday Times]]'', he told psychiatrist Werner Teuter that the assassination was "an act of overthrowing the government" and that he knew "who had President Kennedy killed." He added: "I am doomed. I do not want to die. But I am not insane. I was framed to kill [[Lee Harvey Oswald|Oswald]]."<ref name="Crossfire">{{cite book|last=Marrs|first=Jim|title=Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy|location=New York|publisher=Carroll & Graf|year=1989|pages=431–432|isbn=0-88184-648-1}}</ref><ref>''The Sunday Times'', August 25, 1974.</ref><ref>[[Anthony Summers|Summers, Anthony]]. ''Not in Your Lifetime'', (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 341. ISBN 1-56924-739-0</ref>
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Not long before Ruby died, according to an article in the London ''[[The Sunday Times|Sunday Times]]'', he told psychiatrist Werner Teuter that the assassination was "an act of overthrowing the government" and that he knew "who had President Kennedy killed." He added: "I am doomed. I do not want to die. But I am not insane. I was framed to kill [[Lee Harvey Oswald|Oswald]]."<ref name="Crossfire">Marrs, Jim (1989). Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy. New York: Carroll & Graf. pp. 431–432. ISBN 0-88184-648-1</ref><ref>''The Sunday Times'', August 25, 1974.</ref><ref>[[Anthony Summers|Summers, Anthony]]. ''Not in Your Lifetime'', (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 341. ISBN 1-56924-739-0</ref>
  
 
Until he died of a [[heart attack]], aged 48, [[Tom Howard]] was the attorney for Jack Ruby.
 
Until he died of a [[heart attack]], aged 48, [[Tom Howard]] was the attorney for Jack Ruby.
 
==Death==
 
==Death==
 
Eventually, the appellate court agreed with Ruby's lawyers for a new trial, and on October 5, 1966, ruled that his motion for a [[change of venue]] before the original trial court should have been granted. Ruby's conviction and [[death sentence]] were overturned. Arrangements were underway for a new trial to be held in February 1967 in [[Wichita Falls, Texas]], when on December 9, 1966, Ruby was admitted to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, suffering from [[pneumonia]]. A day later, doctors realized he had [[cancer]] in his liver, lungs and brain. Three weeks later, he died.
 
Eventually, the appellate court agreed with Ruby's lawyers for a new trial, and on October 5, 1966, ruled that his motion for a [[change of venue]] before the original trial court should have been granted. Ruby's conviction and [[death sentence]] were overturned. Arrangements were underway for a new trial to be held in February 1967 in [[Wichita Falls, Texas]], when on December 9, 1966, Ruby was admitted to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, suffering from [[pneumonia]]. A day later, doctors realized he had [[cancer]] in his liver, lungs and brain. Three weeks later, he died.
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=="My life is in danger here"==
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Ruby appeared before the [[Warren Commission]], and was interrogated by [[Earl Warren]] himself, where he asked to be transferred from [[Texas]] to [[Washington DC]], saying he was afraid to testify since his life was in danger. The request was denied. The excerpt is slightly abridged, marked with three dots ...:
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{{QB|Mr. RUBY. Gentlemen, unless you get me to [[Washington]], you can't get a fair shake out of me. If you understand my way of talking, you have got to bring me to Washington to get the tests. Do I sound dramatic? Off the beam?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. No; you are speaking very, very rationally, and I am really surprised that you can remember as much as you have remembered up to the present time.
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You have given it to us in detail.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. Unless you can get me to Washington, and I am not a crackpot, I have all my senses--I don't want to evade any crime I am guilty of.<br>
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...<br>
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Mr. RUBY. My reluctance to talk---you haven't had any witness in telling the story, in finding so many problems?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. You have a greater problem than any witness we have had.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. I have a lot of reasons for having those problems.<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. I know that, and we want to respect your rights, whatever they may be. And I only want to hear what you are willing to tell us, because I realize that you still have a great problem before you, and I am not trying to press you.<br>
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...<br>
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Mr. RUBY. If you request me to go back to Washington with you right now, that couldn't be done, could it?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. No; it could not be done. It could not be done. There are a good many things involved in that, Mr. Ruby.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. What are they?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. Well, the public attention that it would attract, and the people who would be around. We have no place there for you to be safe when we take you out, and we are not law enforcement officers, and it isn't our responsibility to go into anything of that kind. And certainly it couldn't be done on a moment's notice this way.<br>
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...<br>
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Mr. RUBY. Gentlemen, my life is in danger here. Not with my guilty plea of execution. Do I sound sober enough to you as I say this?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. You do. You sound entirely sober. <br>
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...<br>
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Mr. RUBY. Then I follow this up. I may not live tomorrow to give any further testimony. The reason why I add this to this, since you assure me that I have been speaking sense by then, I might be speaking sense by following what I have said, and the only thing I want to get out to the public, and I can't say it here, is with authenticity, with sincerity of the truth of everything and why my act was committed, but it can't be said here.
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It can be said, it's got to be said amongst people of the highest authority that would give me the benefit of doubt. And following that, immediately give me the lie detector test after I do make the statement.
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Chairman Warren, if you felt that your life was in danger at the moment, how would you feel? Wouldn't you be reluctant to go on speaking, even though you request me to do so?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. I think I might have some reluctance if I was in your position, yes; I think I would. I think I would figure it out very carefully as to whether it would endanger me or not. If you think that anything that I am doing or anything that I am asking you is endangering you in any way, shape, or form, I want you to feel absolutely free to say that the interview is over.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. What happens then? I didn't accomplish anything.<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. No; nothing has been accomplished.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. Well, then you won't follow up with anything further?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. There wouldn't be anything to follow up if you hadn't completed your statement.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. You said you have the power to do what you want to do is that correct?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. Exactly.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. Without any limitations?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. Within the purview of the Executive order which established the Commission. We have the right to take testimony of anyone we want in this whole situation, and we have the right, if we so choose to do it, to verify that statement in any way that we wish to do it.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. But you don't have a right to take a prisoner back with you when you want to?<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. No; we have the power to subpena witnesses to Washington if we want to do it, but we have taken the testimony of 200 or 300 people, I would imagine, here in [[Dallas]] without going to Washington.<br>
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Mr. RUBY. Yes; but those people aren't Jack Ruby.<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. No; they weren't.... <br>
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...<br>
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unless you had indicated not only through your lawyers but also through your sister, who wrote a letter addressed either to me or to Mr. Rankin saying that you wanted to testify before the Commission, unless she had told us that, I wouldn't have bothered you.<br>
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...<br>
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Mr. RUBY. The thing is this, that with your power that you have, Chief Justice Warren, and all these gentlemen, too much time has gone by for me to give you any benefit of what I may say now. <br>
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...<br>
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Mr. RUBY. At that time when you first got the letter and I was begging Joe Tonahill and the other lawyers to know the truth about me, certain things that are happening now wouldn't be happening at this particular time.<br>
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...<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. This story was given by a lawyer by the name of [[Mark Lane]], who is representing Mrs. [[Marguerite Oswald]], the mother of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], and it was in the paper, so we subpenaed him, and he testified that someone had given him information to the effect that a week or two before [[President Kennedy]] was assassinated, that in your [[Carousel Club]] you and Weissman and [[Tippit]], Officer Tippit, the one who was killed, and a rich oil man had an interview or conversation for an hour or two. And we asked him who it was that told him, and he said that it was confidential and he couldn't tell at the moment, but that he would find out for us if whether he could be released or not from his confidential relationship.<br>
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...<br>
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Mr. RUBY. Isn't that foolish? If a man is [[patriotic]] enough in the first place, who am I to be concerned if he wasn't an informer. I am incarcerated, nothing to be worried about anyone hurting me.<br>
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...<br>
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Chief Justice WARREN. Mr. Ruby, I am not questioning your story at all. I wanted you to know the background of this thing, and to know that it was with us only hearsay. But I did feel that our record should show that we would ask you the question and that you would answer it, and you have answered it. <br>
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...<br>
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Mr. RUBY. No; I am as innocent regarding any [[conspiracy]] as any of you gentlemen in the room, and I don't want anything to be run over lightly. I want you to dig into it with any biting, any question that might embarrass me, or anything that might bring up my background, which isn't so terribly spotted--I have never been a criminal--I have never been in jail---I know when you live in the city of [[Chicago]] and you are in the livelihood of selling tickets to sporting events, your lucrative patrons are some of these people, but you don't mean anything to those people. You may know them as you get acquainted with them at the sporting events or the ball park.<ref>https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/ruby_j1.htm</ref>}}
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Latest revision as of 08:26, 12 January 2023

"“Lone nut”"
Person.png Jack Ruby   IMDB ISGP SpartacusRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Assassin, JFK/Assassination/Premature death)
Jack Ruby mugshot.jpg
BornJacob Leon Rubenstein
April 25, 1911
Chicago, Illinois, United States
DiedJanuary 3, 1967 (Age 55)
Dallas
Cause of death
Pulmonary embolism
ReligionJewish
Criminal charge
Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald
Parents • Joseph Rubenstein
• Fannie Turek Rutkowski
Victim ofpremature death
Supposed perpetrator ofLee Harvey Oswald/Assassination
Interest ofSeth Kantor
Subpage•Jack Ruby/Death
•Jack Ruby/Diagnosed with cancer
•Jack Ruby/Wires money order
A "lone nut" who killed another lone nut to try to hide the conspiracy which killed JFK. Both were actually assets controlled by the deep state groups who ran that coup.

Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein[1] – January 3, 1967) was a nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas. He shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, who was in police custody after being charged with the assassination of John F. Kennedy two days earlier.

“I tell you that a whole new form of government is going to take over the country and I know I won’t live to see you another time.”
Jack Ruby [2]

Accusations Of Conspiracy

Following Ruby's March 1964 conviction for murder with malice, Ruby's lawyers, led by Sam Houston Clinton, appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest criminal court in Texas. Ruby's lawyers argued that he could not have received a fair trial in Dallas because of the excessive publicity surrounding the case. A year after his conviction, in March 1965, Ruby conducted a brief televised news conference in which he stated: "Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world." When asked by a reporter, "Are these people in very high positions, Jack?", he responded "Yes."

Dallas Deputy Sheriff Al Maddox claimed: "Ruby told me, he said, 'Well, they injected me for a cold.' He said it was cancer cells. That's what he told me, Ruby did. I said you don't believe that bullshit. He said, 'I damn sure do!' [Then] one day when I started to leave, Ruby shook hands with me and I could feel a piece of paper in his palm… [In this note] he said it was a conspiracy and he said... if you will keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, you're gonna learn a lot. And that was the last letter I ever got from him."[3] Not long before Ruby died, according to an article in the London Sunday Times, he told psychiatrist Werner Teuter that the assassination was "an act of overthrowing the government" and that he knew "who had President Kennedy killed." He added: "I am doomed. I do not want to die. But I am not insane. I was framed to kill Oswald."[3][4][5]

Until he died of a heart attack, aged 48, Tom Howard was the attorney for Jack Ruby.

Death

Eventually, the appellate court agreed with Ruby's lawyers for a new trial, and on October 5, 1966, ruled that his motion for a change of venue before the original trial court should have been granted. Ruby's conviction and death sentence were overturned. Arrangements were underway for a new trial to be held in February 1967 in Wichita Falls, Texas, when on December 9, 1966, Ruby was admitted to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, suffering from pneumonia. A day later, doctors realized he had cancer in his liver, lungs and brain. Three weeks later, he died.

"My life is in danger here"

Ruby appeared before the Warren Commission, and was interrogated by Earl Warren himself, where he asked to be transferred from Texas to Washington DC, saying he was afraid to testify since his life was in danger. The request was denied. The excerpt is slightly abridged, marked with three dots ...:

Mr. RUBY. Gentlemen, unless you get me to Washington, you can't get a fair shake out of me. If you understand my way of talking, you have got to bring me to Washington to get the tests. Do I sound dramatic? Off the beam?

Chief Justice WARREN. No; you are speaking very, very rationally, and I am really surprised that you can remember as much as you have remembered up to the present time. You have given it to us in detail.
Mr. RUBY. Unless you can get me to Washington, and I am not a crackpot, I have all my senses--I don't want to evade any crime I am guilty of.
...
Mr. RUBY. My reluctance to talk---you haven't had any witness in telling the story, in finding so many problems?
Chief Justice WARREN. You have a greater problem than any witness we have had.
Mr. RUBY. I have a lot of reasons for having those problems.
Chief Justice WARREN. I know that, and we want to respect your rights, whatever they may be. And I only want to hear what you are willing to tell us, because I realize that you still have a great problem before you, and I am not trying to press you.
...
Mr. RUBY. If you request me to go back to Washington with you right now, that couldn't be done, could it?
Chief Justice WARREN. No; it could not be done. It could not be done. There are a good many things involved in that, Mr. Ruby.
Mr. RUBY. What are they?
Chief Justice WARREN. Well, the public attention that it would attract, and the people who would be around. We have no place there for you to be safe when we take you out, and we are not law enforcement officers, and it isn't our responsibility to go into anything of that kind. And certainly it couldn't be done on a moment's notice this way.
...
Mr. RUBY. Gentlemen, my life is in danger here. Not with my guilty plea of execution. Do I sound sober enough to you as I say this?
Chief Justice WARREN. You do. You sound entirely sober.
...
Mr. RUBY. Then I follow this up. I may not live tomorrow to give any further testimony. The reason why I add this to this, since you assure me that I have been speaking sense by then, I might be speaking sense by following what I have said, and the only thing I want to get out to the public, and I can't say it here, is with authenticity, with sincerity of the truth of everything and why my act was committed, but it can't be said here. It can be said, it's got to be said amongst people of the highest authority that would give me the benefit of doubt. And following that, immediately give me the lie detector test after I do make the statement. Chairman Warren, if you felt that your life was in danger at the moment, how would you feel? Wouldn't you be reluctant to go on speaking, even though you request me to do so?
Chief Justice WARREN. I think I might have some reluctance if I was in your position, yes; I think I would. I think I would figure it out very carefully as to whether it would endanger me or not. If you think that anything that I am doing or anything that I am asking you is endangering you in any way, shape, or form, I want you to feel absolutely free to say that the interview is over.
Mr. RUBY. What happens then? I didn't accomplish anything.
Chief Justice WARREN. No; nothing has been accomplished.
Mr. RUBY. Well, then you won't follow up with anything further?
Chief Justice WARREN. There wouldn't be anything to follow up if you hadn't completed your statement.
Mr. RUBY. You said you have the power to do what you want to do is that correct?
Chief Justice WARREN. Exactly.
Mr. RUBY. Without any limitations?
Chief Justice WARREN. Within the purview of the Executive order which established the Commission. We have the right to take testimony of anyone we want in this whole situation, and we have the right, if we so choose to do it, to verify that statement in any way that we wish to do it.
Mr. RUBY. But you don't have a right to take a prisoner back with you when you want to?
Chief Justice WARREN. No; we have the power to subpena witnesses to Washington if we want to do it, but we have taken the testimony of 200 or 300 people, I would imagine, here in Dallas without going to Washington.
Mr. RUBY. Yes; but those people aren't Jack Ruby.
Chief Justice WARREN. No; they weren't....
...
unless you had indicated not only through your lawyers but also through your sister, who wrote a letter addressed either to me or to Mr. Rankin saying that you wanted to testify before the Commission, unless she had told us that, I wouldn't have bothered you.
...
Mr. RUBY. The thing is this, that with your power that you have, Chief Justice Warren, and all these gentlemen, too much time has gone by for me to give you any benefit of what I may say now.
...
Mr. RUBY. At that time when you first got the letter and I was begging Joe Tonahill and the other lawyers to know the truth about me, certain things that are happening now wouldn't be happening at this particular time.
...
Chief Justice WARREN. This story was given by a lawyer by the name of Mark Lane, who is representing Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, and it was in the paper, so we subpenaed him, and he testified that someone had given him information to the effect that a week or two before President Kennedy was assassinated, that in your Carousel Club you and Weissman and Tippit, Officer Tippit, the one who was killed, and a rich oil man had an interview or conversation for an hour or two. And we asked him who it was that told him, and he said that it was confidential and he couldn't tell at the moment, but that he would find out for us if whether he could be released or not from his confidential relationship.
...
Mr. RUBY. Isn't that foolish? If a man is patriotic enough in the first place, who am I to be concerned if he wasn't an informer. I am incarcerated, nothing to be worried about anyone hurting me.
...
Chief Justice WARREN. Mr. Ruby, I am not questioning your story at all. I wanted you to know the background of this thing, and to know that it was with us only hearsay. But I did feel that our record should show that we would ask you the question and that you would answer it, and you have answered it.
...

Mr. RUBY. No; I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room, and I don't want anything to be run over lightly. I want you to dig into it with any biting, any question that might embarrass me, or anything that might bring up my background, which isn't so terribly spotted--I have never been a criminal--I have never been in jail---I know when you live in the city of Chicago and you are in the livelihood of selling tickets to sporting events, your lucrative patrons are some of these people, but you don't mean anything to those people. You may know them as you get acquainted with them at the sporting events or the ball park.[6]



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References

  1. ↑ The Warren Commission found that various dates were given in the records for Ruby's birth; the one most used by Ruby himself was March 25, 1911 (The Warren Report: Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 1964). His tombstone at Westlawn Cemetery, Chicago has April 25, 1911 as his birthdate
  2. ↑ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/01/revisiting-history-did-jack-ruby-predict-the-america-of-today/ WhoWhatWhy
  3. ↑ a b Marrs, Jim (1989). Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy. New York: Carroll & Graf. pp. 431–432. ISBN 0-88184-648-1
  4. ↑ The Sunday Times, August 25, 1974.
  5. ↑ Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 341. ISBN 1-56924-739-0
  6. ↑ https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/ruby_j1.htm
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