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Feb 9, 2010 · At 12:20 p.m. EST, in the basement of the Dallas police station, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is shot to death by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub...
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Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1963 photograph of nightclub owner Jack Ruby shooting accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The image was captured by Dallas Times Herald photographer Robert H. Jackson and it won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Photography .
About 45 minutes after assassinating Kennedy, Oswald shot and killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit on a local street.
Nov 1, 2013 · Dallas Times-Herald photographer Bob Jackson was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for capturing this picture of Lee Harvey Oswald getting shot. Throughout November, KERA will mark the 50th...
- Early Life and Career
- Illegal Activities
- Character
- John F. Kennedy Assassination
- Prosecution
- Death
- Official Investigations
- Other Investigations and Dissenting Theories
- References
- Further Reading
Ruby was born Jacob Leon Rubenstein on or around March 25, 1911, in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago, the son of Joseph Rubenstein and Fannie Turek Rutkowski (or Rokowsky), both Polish-born Orthodox Jews. Ruby was the fifth of his parents' 10 surviving children. While he was growing up, his parents were often violent towards each other and freque...
Some critics have said that Ruby was involved in illegal activitysuch as gambling, narcotics, and prostitution. A 1956 FBIreport stated that informant Eileen Curry had moved to Dallas in January with her boyfriend James Breen after jumping bail on narcotics charges. Breen told her that he had made connections with a large narcotics setup operating ...
According to people interviewed by law enforcement and the Warren Commission, Ruby was desperate to attract attention to himself and to his club. He knew a great number of people in Dallas, but he had only a few friends. Because his business ventures remained unsuccessful, he was heavily in debt. The commission received reports of Ruby's penchant f...
November 21
The Warren Commission attempted to reconstruct Ruby's movements from November 21, 1963, through November 24.: 333 The Commission reported that he was attending to his duties as the proprietor of the Carousel Club located at 1312 1/2 Commerce St. in downtown Dallas and the Vegas Club in the city's Oak Lawn district from the afternoon of November 21 to the early hours of November 22.: 333 A number of Dallas police officers were meeting in the office of Assistant District Attorney Ben Ellis when...
November 22: assassination of Kennedy
According to the Warren Commission, on November 22, Ruby was in the second-floor advertising offices of the Dallas Morning News, five blocks away from the Texas School Book Depository, placing weekly advertisements for his nightclubs when he learned of the assassination around 12:45 p.m.: 334–335 According to witnesses, Ruby was visibly shaken. Ruby then made phone calls to his assistant at the Carousel Club and to his sister.: 334 The Commission stated that an employee of the Dallas Morning...
November 24: murder of Oswald
On November 24, at 11:21 a.m. CST, Oswald was being escorted by detectives Jim Leavelle and L. C. Graves through the police basement to an armored car that was to take him to the nearby county jail, when Ruby who was standing among a crowd of reporters, emerged with his revolver aimed at Oswald's chest; Ruby passed by William Harrison who saw the gun and began to reach his hand out. Detective Billy Combest said that Ruby had a "determined look or grimace". Ruby shot Oswald at point blank rang...
After his arrest, Ruby said that he had been distraught over President Kennedy's death, had helped the city of Dallas "redeem" itself in the eyes of the public, and that he was "saving Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial.": 198–200 He also claimed that he shot Oswald on the spur of the moment when the opportunity presented itself,...
Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967, at Parkland Hospital, the same hospital where Oswald and Kennedy died. He was buried beside his parents in the Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois.
Warren Commission
The Warren Commission found no evidence linking Ruby's killing of Oswald with any broader conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy. The report provided a detailed biography of Ruby's life and activities to help ascertain whether he was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy. The Commission also investigated rumours that Ruby and Oswald knew each other or that Oswald was seen at the Carousel Club. Television footage showing Oswald glance briefly in Ruby's direction as he emerged to shoot him...
Many critics have not accepted the conclusions of the Warren Commission and have proposed several other theories, particularly regarding Ruby’s role in Oswald’s death.
This article incorporates public domain material from Warren Commission Report, Appendix 16: A Biography of Jack Ruby. National Archives and Records Administration.
Report of the Warren Commission on the assassination of President Kennedy. St. Martin's Griffin. 1992. ISBN 978-0-312-08257-4.Bugliosi, Vincent (2007). Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-04525-3.Fonzi, Gaeton (1993). The Last Investigation. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-052-4.Kantor, Seth (1978). Who Was Jack Ruby?. Everest House. ISBN 978-0-89696-004-6.Jul 21, 2013 · Left: A color photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald, taken at Dallas Police headquarters on November 23, 1963. ... Forty-five minutes after Kennedy was shot, Tippit stopped a man walking through the Oak ...
The docuseries will take audiences through the lead-up and aftermath of the shocking events on November 22, 1963 that saw the 35th US President fatally shot by marine veteran Lee Harvey...
