OSWALD'S KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Dallas, Texas (JFK+50) On March 14, 1964, Jack Ruby*, who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by electrocution. It took the jury 2 hours and 20 minutes to render the verdict.
Just as his shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas City Jail on November 24, 1963 was televised live, so was the announcement of the verdict.
Mary Gray McCoy*, a friend of Ruby's, visited him three times in his jail cell. The last visit came just days before his death. In an interview given when she was 100 years old, Ms. McCoy said that Jack Ruby was "all business" before the assassination, but when she talked with him afterward he was "so friendly."
Jack Ruby never made it to the electric chair. He died at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas on January 3, 1967. The cause of death was given as a pulmonary embolism resulting from lung cancer. Mary Gray McCoy did not buy it. She said...
*Jack Leon Ruby (1911-1967) was born in Chicago, Illinois. In the 1920s, JLR was involved with organized crime & was a known "runner" for Al Capone.
Ruby was drafted into the US Army in 1943 & served as an aircraft mechanic. After the war, JLR moved to Dallas, Texas changing his name from Jack Rubenstein to Jack Ruby.
"Jack Ruby's Friend, Jail Visitor, Breaks Silence After 50 Years", November 21, 2013, www.newson6.com/
Dallas, Texas (JFK+50) On March 14, 1964, Jack Ruby*, who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by electrocution. It took the jury 2 hours and 20 minutes to render the verdict.
Just as his shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas City Jail on November 24, 1963 was televised live, so was the announcement of the verdict.
Mary Gray McCoy*, a friend of Ruby's, visited him three times in his jail cell. The last visit came just days before his death. In an interview given when she was 100 years old, Ms. McCoy said that Jack Ruby was "all business" before the assassination, but when she talked with him afterward he was "so friendly."
Jack Ruby never made it to the electric chair. He died at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas on January 3, 1967. The cause of death was given as a pulmonary embolism resulting from lung cancer. Mary Gray McCoy did not buy it. She said...
"They poisoned him. Somebody did."
Ruby was drafted into the US Army in 1943 & served as an aircraft mechanic. After the war, JLR moved to Dallas, Texas changing his name from Jack Rubenstein to Jack Ruby.
SOURCE
"Jack Ruby's Friend, Jail Visitor, Breaks Silence After 50 Years", November 21, 2013, www.newson6.com/
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