Feb. 15, 2026
PRESIDENTS' DAY WEEKEND - "THE TRIAL OF JACK RUBY: THE MAN WHO KILLED KENNEDY'S KILLER ON LIVE TELEVISION"
Reid Carter covers the assassination that broke America and the murder trial nobody expected. November 22, 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy in Dallas. Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby walked into the police basement and shot Oswald on live television — the first murder broadcast to a national audience. Fifty million Americans watched a man die in real time. Ruby's trial lasted two weeks. Defense claimed psychomotor epilepsy caused a blackout. Prosecution said premeditated murder. Jury deliberated two hours — guilty, death sentence. Ruby appealed, won a new trial, then died of cancer before retrial. Justice denied.
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Callarogus Shark Media.
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Good morning, I'm read Carter. Sunday, February fifteenth, twenty twenty six.
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President's Day Assassination Trials, Part three. Friday, we covered Lincoln
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Military Tribunal. Four hanged a woman executed yesterday, Garfield the
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madman who sang his way to the gallows while doctors
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actually killed the president today The Big One. November twenty second,
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nineteen sixty three, Dallas, Texas, twelve thirty pm. President John
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Fitzgerald Kennedy riding in an open motorcade through De Lee Plaza.
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Governor John Connolly seated in front of him, Jackie Kennedy
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beside him in her pink channel suit. Three shots from
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the sixth floor of the Texas school Book Depository. The
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President's head exploded. On live television. America watched its youngest
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elected president die in his wife's arms. Lee Harvey Oswald,
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twenty four years old, former Marine Marxist, defected to the
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Soviet Union, came back, and apparently decided to murder the
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leader of the Free World with a twenty one dollar
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mail order rifle. But Oswald never stood trial because two
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days later, on November twenty fourth, nineteen sixty three, while
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being transferred from Dallas police headquarters, A man stepped out
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of the crowd of reporters in the police basement, pressed
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a thirty eight caliber Colt Cobra revolver against Oswald's abdomen
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and fired once. Jack Ruby, fifty two years old, Dallas
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nightclub owner, shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live national television.
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NBC was broadcasting the transfer. Fifty million Americans watched a
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man die in real time, first murder ever broadcast to
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a mass audience. Ruby was tackled, immediately, disarmed, arrested. Oswald
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died at Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same high hospital where
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Kennedy had been pronounced dead two days earlier. Oswald's death
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meant no trial, no testimony, no cross examination, no definitive
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answers about whether he acted alone. The conspiracy theories that
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haunt America to this day were born in that police basement.
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But Jack Ruby did stand trial, and his case overshadowed
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by everything that came before. It is one of the
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strangest murder trials in American history. I'm reed, Carter, this
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is celebrity trials today. The Kennedy assassination, the killing of Oswald,
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and the trial of Jack Ruby, Part three of Our
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President's Day Assassination Trials series. Let Me Take You Back.
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November twenty second, nineteen sixty three, Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy
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was in Texas on a political trip. The nineteen sixty
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four election was approaching. Texas was crucial. Governor Connolly and
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Senator Ralph Yarborough were feuding, splitting the state's Democratic Party.
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Kennedy came to unite them. The motorcade through downtown Dallas
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was designed from maximum public exposure, open top Lincoln Continental limousine,
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slow speeds through city streets, no bulletproof bubble top. Despite
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the Secret Service offering one, Kennedy wanted to be seen,
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wanted to connect with the crowd. Twelve thirty pm, the
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motorcade turned from Houston Street onto Elm Street, passing the
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Texas School Book Depository, a seven story brick warehouse sixth floor,
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southeast corner window. Three shots six point five seconds from
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a six point five millimeter Mannlicher Carcinot bolt action rifle.
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First shot missed or hit a nearby curb fragment, striking
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bystander James tag on the cheek. Second shot, the so
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called magic bullet hit Kennedy in the upper back, exited
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his throat, hinued through Governor Connolly's back, chest, wrist, and thigh.
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Both men wounded with one bullet. The Warren Commission would
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later call this the single bullet theory. Critics would call
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it impossible. Ballistic testing would eventually confirm it was plausible.
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Third shot hit Kennedy in the head, fatal. The right
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side of his skull exploded. Brain matter sprayed across the
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trunk of the limousine. Jackie Kennedy climbed onto the back
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of the car, whether reaching for a piece of her
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husband's skull or trying to escape nobody's certain. Secret Service
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agent Clint Hill sprinted from the follow car, jumped onto
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the back of the limousine, pushed Jackie down, shielded the
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President's body with his own. The car accelerated toward Parkland
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Memorial Hospital. One PM, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was pronounced dead.
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He was forty six years old, the youngest elected president,
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father of two war hero the man who stared down
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the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis. Within ninety minutes,
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Dallas police had their suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, twenty four
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years old, employee at the Texas School Book Depository, had
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been seen on the sixth floor that morning. His Manlicher
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Carcano rifle found hidden between boxes near the window. Three
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spent cartridges on the floor. Oswald fled the building after
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the shooting, went to his rooming house, retrieved a point
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three eight revolver, was stopped by Dallas police officer J. D.
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Tippett on a residential street. Oswald shot tip at four times,
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killed him, then ducked into the Texas Theater movie house
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without paying. Employees called police one fifty pm. Officers swarmed the theater.
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Oswald pulled his revolver, tried to fire. The hammer came
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down on the webbing between an officer's thumb and the
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firing pin didn't discharge. Officers subdued him. Oswald reportedly said, well,
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it's all over now, except it wasn't. It was just beginning.
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Dallas police interrogated Oswald for approximately twelve hours over two days,
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no audio recordings, no video, no attorney present for most
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of it. Oswald denied everything. I didn't shoot anybody. I'm
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just a patsy. The evidence against him was substantial. His rifle,
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his fingerprints on the boxes near the window, a palm
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print on the rifle barrel, fibers matching his shirt on
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the rifle butt. Eyewitness Howard Brennan saw a man matching
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Oswald's description firing from the sixth floor window. Ballistic evidence
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connected the rifle to the bullets. His movements after the shooting, fleeing,
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retrieving a gun, killing officer Tippett showed consciousness of guilt,
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but Oswald was never tried because Jack Ruby made sure
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of that.
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What happens when the man who was supposed to become
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a memory keeps living a nation still demanding miracles, the moon, peace,
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certainty from a man who can no longer pretend he's untouched.
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Jacob Leon Rubinstein born March twenty fifth, nineteen eleven in Chicago,
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changed his name to Jack Ruby. Grew up in poverty,
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street kid, small time hustler, served in the army, Air
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Forces during World War II. Moved to Dallas in nineteen
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forty seven to help his sister manage a nightclub. By
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November nineteen sixty three, Ruby owned two clubs in Dallas,
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The Carousel Club, a burlesque joint, and the Vegas Club.
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He was a known figure around the city, friendly with cops,
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gave them free drinks, hung around police headquarters, new officers
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by first name, attended press conferences. Was a fixture in
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the Dallas ecosystem where police press and night life overlapped.
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Ruby was emotional, volatile, could be generous one moment and
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violent the next, beat up patrons who got rowdy, carried
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a gun everywhere, had a history of minor scrapes with
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the law, but nothing serious. Loved his dogs, two docsuns
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he treated like children. When Kennedy was shot, Ruby was devastated,
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genuinely distraught. Closed his clubs out of respect, something he'd
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never done. Attended a press conference at Dallas Police headquarters
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Friday night. Was seen in the crowd of reporters. Nobody
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questioned why a nightclub owner was at a police press conference.
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That was just Jack Ruby. Saturday, November twenty third, Ruby
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spent the day in a fog visited. Friends talked about
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how awful the assassination was. Expressed rage toward Oswald, but
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also concerned for Jackie. Kennedy told people he was heartbroken
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that Jackie had to see her husband murdered. Sunday morning,
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November twenty fourth, Ruby drove downtown, stopped at a Western
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Union office to wire twenty five dollars to one of
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his nightclub employees. The receipt was time stamped. Eleven seventeen am,
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the transfer of Oswald from city jail to county jail
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was scheduled for ten am, but had been delayed. Reporters
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were gathered in the basement parking garage waiting. Ruby walked
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from the Western Union office to the police headquarters basement,
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entered through the main street ramp. How he got in
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without being stopped has been debated for decades. He may
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have slipped in while a police car was exiting and
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the officer guarding the ramp was momentarily distracted. Eleven twenty one,
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A M detectives Jim Level and L. C. Graves led
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Oswald out of the jail office into the basement. Lavell
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was handcuffed to Oswald's right wrist, wearing a tan suit
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and white cowboy hat. He'd told Oswald earlier, Lee, if
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anybody shoots at you, I hope they're as good a
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shot as you are. Oswald smiled, nobody is going to
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shoot at me. The basement was packed with reporters, television
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cameras broadcasting live on NBC, millions watching. Oswald emerged. Reporters
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shouted questions, flashbulbs popped. Then Jack Ruby lunged from the crowd,
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pressed his point three eight Colt cobra against Oswald's left abdomen. Fired.
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Once Oswald's face contorted, he groaned, collapsed. Detective Graves grabbed
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Ruby's gun hand. Officers swarmed. Ruby was taken down. Jack
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you son of a bitch, Lavelle shouted. Ruby reportedly said,
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I hope I killed the son of a bitch, later
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told officers, I did it so Jackie Kennedy wouldn't have
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to come back to Dallas for a trial. Oswald was
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rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same trauma room where
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Kennedy had been treated two days earlier, same doctors, Lee
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Harvey Oswald was pronounced dead at one seven pm. He
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was twenty four years old. The conspiracy theories ignited immediately.
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Was Ruby connected to the mob? Was he sent to
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silence Oswald? Was this a cover up orchestrated by the CIA,
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the Mafia, Fidel castro, Lyndon Johnson, or some combination. The
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fact that Oswald was killed before trial meant the truth,
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whatever it was, might never come out. But first Jack
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Ruby had to stand trial for murder. We'll be right
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back with the trial of Jack Ruby. His lawyers said
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he blacked out from psychomotor epilepsy. Prosecutors said he walked
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past a police god guard, timed his arrival perfectly, and
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murdered a man in cold blood. The jury took two hours.
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March fourth, nineteen sixty four, the trial of Jack Ruby
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began in Dallas, Judge Joe B. Brown presiding. The courtroom
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was a circus, hundreds of reporters, television cameras in the
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hallway the world watching. Ruby was charged with murder with
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malice premeditated killing. If convicted, he faced the death penalty.
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Texas had the electric chair. His defense team was led
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by Melvin Belly, a flamboyant San Francisco trial attorney known
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as the King of Torts. Belly was famous had won
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massive personal injury verdicts, wore expensive suits, loved the spotlight.
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He'd taken Ruby's case partly for the publicity. Belly's strategy
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was bold and unusual diminished capacity through psychomotor epilepsy. He argued,
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Ruby suffered from a rare form of v epilepsy that
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caused seizures affecting the temporal lobe, leading to blackouts, emotional volatility,
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and loss of control. Ruby didn't plan to kill Oswald.
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He had an epileptic episode triggered by the intense emotional
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stress of Kennedy's assassination. He blacked out, didn't know what
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he was doing when he came to Oswald was shot
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and Ruby was on the ground. The defense brought in neurologists.
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Doctor Roy Schaeffer of Yale administered psychological tests. Doctor Martin
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Towler of the University of Texas performed an electro encephalogram
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brainwave test on Ruby found abnormal brain activity consistent with
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psychomotor epilepsy. The defense team believed they had the medical
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evidence to prove Ruby was not in control of his actions. Prosecution,
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led by District Attorney Henry Wade, yes the same Henry
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Wade from roe Versus. Wade argued premeditation. Ruby brought a
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gun to the police basement, timed his arrise, positioned himself
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in the crowd, waited for the perfect moment, fired at
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point blank range, then made statements showing he knew exactly
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what he'd done and why. Wade presented evidence that Ruby
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had been stalking the police headquarters all weekend. Was at
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the Friday night press conference called the Jail Saturday, asking
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about Oswald's transfer schedule. Arrived at the basement Sunday morning
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at exactly the right time. The Western Union receipt showed
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Ruby wired money at eleven seventeen am, just four minutes
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before the shooting. Defense said this proved it wasn't premeditated.
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If Ruby planned to kill Oswald, why would he stop
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to wire twenty five dollars to an employee He just
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happened to be in the area when the transfer happened.
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Prosecution countered Ruby knew the transfer was scheduled, the delay
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pushed it back to when Ruby arrived. He may have
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wired the money specifically to create an alibi to make
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it look spontaneous. The trial lasted two weeks. Testimony was
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contradictory Ruby himself, was erratic, alternated between calm cooperation and
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emotional outbursts, told his attorneys different stories at different times.
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On March fourteenth, nineteen sixty four, the jury got the case,
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eight men and four women. They deliberated two hours and
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nineteen minutes, guilty murder with malice, sentence death. Ruby showed
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no reaction. Belly was stunned. Furious, held a press conference
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outside the court house, calling Dallas a city of shame.
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Ruby to cleanse itself of the shame of Kennedy's assassination.
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This is a victory for bigotry and injustice, Belly declared.
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Ruby fired Belly after the verdict, hired new attorneys. Filed
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an appeal, arguing multiple grounds the trial should have been
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moved out of Dallas due to pre trial publicity, Judge
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Brown was biased, the jury selection was tainted, the evidence
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didn't support murder with malice. October fifth, nineteen sixty six,
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the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed, reversed the conviction,
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ordered a new trial, found that key testimony about Ruby's
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statements had been improperly admitted, and that the trial should
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have been moved to a different venue. Ruby was going
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to get another chance, but he never got it. December ninth,
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nineteen sixty six, Ruby was diagnosed with lung cancer. Aggressive
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terminal had spread throughout his body. January third, nineteen sixty seven,
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Jack Ruby died at Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital
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where Kennedy died, the same hospital where Oswald died. He
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was fifty five years old. Died of a pulmonary embolism
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related to his cancer. His last words to his brother Earl,
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there is nothing. There was no one else. Ruby maintained
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