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John Fitzgerald Kennedy / JFK 1917-1963
Jacob Leon Rubenstein / Jack Leon Ruby 1911-1967
A big question in Dallas is why Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald as the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy was being transferred from one jail to another, on Nov. 25, 1963.
Ruby, whose real name is Rubenstein, is pictured as he was taken before a justice of the peace to be arraigned on murder charges.
Photograph: Associated Press
Boston Globe > Big Picture 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination November 22, 2013 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/11/50th_anniversary_of_the_jfk_as.html
Nov. 22, 1963, midnight -
(Lee Harvey) Oswald is paraded in front of the press.
At the back of the room is one man who is not a policeman or a reporter, a man who carries a gun and has underworld connections.
His name is Jacob Rubenstein, known as Jack Ruby.
In less than 36 hours, he will murder Lee Harvey Oswald.
Ruby is a police informer who owned a striptease club and made sure that policemen who came to his club were shown a good time.
He was known to be an impulsive, quick tempered man who loved to fight.
He also knew people who were in organized crime.
In 1963, Sam and Joe Campisi were leading figures in the Dallas underworld.
Jack knew the Campisis and had been seen with them on many occasions.
The Campisis were lieutenants of Carlos Marcello, the Mafia boss who had reportedly talked of killing the President.
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Nov 24. 11:21 AM: Oswald is shot by Ruby.
Posner: “Ruby yells as he’s shooting, “You killed my president, you rat!”
He’s then tackled by the police around him and in the few seconds after the shooting through the time he’s taken into the jail, he says a series of things.
“You guys,” meaning the police, “couldn’t do it. I did it for you. I had to show that a Jew has guts. I’m happy that I got him.”
Oswald never regains consciousness after Jack Ruby shoots him. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/biographies/oswald/twenty-four-years/
Millions of Americans watched on television on Nov. 24, 1963, as Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, gunned down President John F. Kennedy's assassin, http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/01/us/phil-burleson-61-jack-ruby-s-lawyer.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/19/usa http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/01/us/phil-burleson-61-jack-ruby-s-lawyer.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/twenty-four-years/
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/01/us/phil-burleson-61-jack-ruby-s-lawyer.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/24/
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/01/04/
https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/10/
https://www.nytimes.com/1966/11/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/02/
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/21/
14 March 1964
Jack Ruby is sentenced to death
Jack Ruby is sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F Kennedy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/14/newsid_4221000/4221937.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/14/
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