JACK RUBY DIES AWAITING NEW TRIAL IN DALLAS HOSPITAL
Dallas, Texas (JFK+50) On January 3, 1967, "the assassin's assassin," Jack Ruby*, died of a pulmonary embolism secondary to cancer at Parkland Hospital here in Dallas.
Ruby had been found guilty of the murder of the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, although a Texas Court of Appeals overturned his death sentence and Ruby was awaiting a new trial at the time of his death.
On Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, Ruby gained access to the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters where Oswald was in the process of being transferred to County Jail. Ruby shot Oswald in the abdomen at point blank range as the transfer was being broadcast on live television.
Because Jack Ruby had ties to organized crime, many Americans believed his role was to "silence" Oswald. Although Ruby claimed he acted to save Jacqueline Kennedy the trauma of returning to Dallas for a murder trial, he later stated in a filmed interview...
"The world will never know the true facts--my motives."
*Jack Leon Ruby (1911-1967) was born in Chicago, IL. He served in the US Army Air Force during WWII & moved to Dallas in 1947 where he managed night clubs, strip clubs & dance halls. The term "assassin's assassin" is from Robert Groden's "The Killing Of A President."
JFK+50 NOTE
It is ironic that JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby died at the same hospital, Parkland Memorial in Dallas.
SOURCE
"The Killing Of A President," by Robert J. Groden, Viking Studio Books, New York, 1993.
