JACK RUBY FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD
Dallas, Texas (JFK+50) On March 14, 1964, Jack Ruby*, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the 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 of deliberation 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 his guilty verdict.
Ruby, a nightclub owner in Dallas and friend of many Dallas police officers, claimed he shot Oswald to prevent Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy from having to return to Dallas for a trial.
Gary Cartwright describes Jack Ruby as "a foul mouthed, mean tempered prude who loved children and hated ethnic jokes." Ruby usually carried a "big roll of money" and a gun. He managed to get into the basement of Dallas Police HQ to get into position to use that gun on Lee Harvey Oswald.
In October 1966, Ruby's death sentence was reversed but while awaiting a new trial, he died at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on January 3, 1967, of lung cancer.
*Jack Leon Rubenstein, a.k.a. Jack Ruby (1911-1967) was born in Chicago, IL & served in the U.S. Army Air Force in WWII. In 1946, JLR moved to Dallas, TX where he managed several nightclubs.
SOURCE
"Who was Jack Ruby?", by Gary Cartwright, Texas Monthly, November 1975, www.texasmonthly.com/
Dallas, Texas (JFK+50) On March 14, 1964, Jack Ruby*, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the 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 of deliberation 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 his guilty verdict.
Ruby, a nightclub owner in Dallas and friend of many Dallas police officers, claimed he shot Oswald to prevent Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy from having to return to Dallas for a trial.
Gary Cartwright describes Jack Ruby as "a foul mouthed, mean tempered prude who loved children and hated ethnic jokes." Ruby usually carried a "big roll of money" and a gun. He managed to get into the basement of Dallas Police HQ to get into position to use that gun on Lee Harvey Oswald.
In October 1966, Ruby's death sentence was reversed but while awaiting a new trial, he died at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on January 3, 1967, of lung cancer.
*Jack Leon Rubenstein, a.k.a. Jack Ruby (1911-1967) was born in Chicago, IL & served in the U.S. Army Air Force in WWII. In 1946, JLR moved to Dallas, TX where he managed several nightclubs.
SOURCE
"Who was Jack Ruby?", by Gary Cartwright, Texas Monthly, November 1975, www.texasmonthly.com/
