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Jack 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.

Jack L. Ruby was born with the name Jacob Rubenstein to Polish immigrant
parents in Chicago in 1911 with various conflicting dates from March to June
of that year quoted in various sources and by Ruby at various times. He had
a troubled childhood and adolescence, marked by juvenile deliquency and
times in foster homes. Young Ruby worked selling horse-racing tip sheets,
then for a scrap-iron collectors Union; he was rumored to have minor links
to organized crime. He served in the military during World War II without
seeing combat. After being discharged he moved to Dallas, Texas and worked
managing nightclubs, strip clubs, and dance halls, and also working as
manager for entertainers.

Ruby often carried a gun with him. He suddenly came to major national
attention when he shot Oswald, which he claimed was a spur of the moment
action taken when the opportunity presented itself. The killing was shown
live on national television, the first time such a thing happened in the
United States. (Oswald was being transferred from one jail to another at the
time.)

There has been much debate about Ruby's motives. He claimed that he killed
Oswald in order to save Jacqueline Kennedy from testifying in a murder
trial. Other people suggest that he was carrying out a Mafia "hit" (there is
some evidence to support his having strong crime syndicate links), or that
he was part of a conspiracy to assassinate the president and silenced Oswald
to prevent him from testifying. Much suspicion is aroused by the fact that
he was able to freely enter a supposedly secure area, armed with a pistol,
minutes prior to the alleged assassin of the President of the United States
being transferred out.

A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy
assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Ruby was tried and on March 14, 1964 he was convicted of Oswald's murder,
but the conviction was overturned on procedural grounds. He died of cancer
in prison January 3, 1967 before he could be re-tried.

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