The Ruby Cover-Up (Who Was Jack Ruby?)

Seth Kantor

ISBN 10: 0890836809 / ISBN 13: 9780890836804

Published by Zebra Books, 1980

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ruby Cover-Up (Who Was Jack Ruby?)
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890836809
• ISBN 13: 9780890836804
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

From Wikipedia: Jacob Leon Rubenstein (March 25, 1911-January 3, 1967), who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Ruby, who was originally from Chicago, Illinois, was then a nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas. Convicted of the murder on March 14, 1964, Ruby appealed the conviction and death sentence. As a date for his new trial was being set, he became ill and died of lung cancer on January 3, 1967. ~ Ruby was involved with major figures in organized crime; conspiracy theorists claim that he killed Oswald as part of an overall plot surrounding the assassination of Kennedy. Others have disputed this, arguing that his connection with gangsters was minimal at most and that he was not the sort to be entrusted with such an act within a high-level conspiracy. ~ Ruby (also known as "Sparky," from his boxing nickname "Sparkling Ruby") was seen in the halls of the Dallas Police Headquarters on several occasions after the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963, and newsreel footage from WFAA-TV (Dallas) and NBC shows Ruby impersonating a newspaper reporter during a press conference at Dallas Police Headquarters on the night of the assassination. District Attorney Henry Wade briefed reporters at the press conference telling them that Lee Oswald was a member of the anti-Castro Free Cuba Committee. Ruby spoke up to correct Wade, saying: "Henry, that's the Fair Play for Cuba Committee," a pro-Castro organization. Some speculate that Ruby may have hoped to kill Oswald that night at the police station press conference. Ruby told the FBI, a month after his arrest for killing Oswald, that he had his loaded snub-nosed Colt Cobra .38 revolver in his right-hand pocket during the press conference. ~ Two days later on Sunday, November 24, after driving into town and sending a money order to one of his employees, Ruby walked to the nearby police...