Jack Ruby

Jacob Leon Rubenstein, who in December 1947 changed his name and was known as Jack Leon Ruby (March 25?, 1911 - January 3, 1967), a Dallas nightclub owner, shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald was arrested for the assassination of President Kennedy.

Motivation

There has been debate about Ruby's motives. Some people believe that Ruby carried out mafia orders with a mafia "hit", and/or that he was part of the conspiracy to assassinate the president and so Ruby had silenced Oswald to prevent Oswald from testifying at his upcoming trial. Much suspicion was aroused by the fact that he was able to freely enter a supposedly secure area, armed with a loaded, concealed revolver. Other persons have suggested that Ruby was an emotionally unstable man and obsessive publicity-seeker who revered Kennedy and was seeking vengeance on his own. In jail, shortly before his death (of a stroke, although by the fall of 1966 he was also suffering from rapidly spreading lung cancer, with which he believed he had been deliberately infected), when a friend insisted that he should tell the truth before he died, Jack Ruby said: "Listen, you know me well, and you know I'm a reasonable businessman. I wouldn't have done it if I did not have to do it."

Related Topics:
Mafia - Conspiracy

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