Jack Ruby was born Jacob Leon Rubenstein on March 25, 1911, in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago. He fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with assassination of John F. Kennedy. A Dallas jury found him guilty of murdering Oswald, and he was sentenced to death. Ruby was granted a new trial and died of a pulmonary embolism from lung cancer on January 3, 1967. The Warren Commission concluded that Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald.
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Jack Ruby was born Jacob Leon Rubenstein on March 25, 1911, in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago. He fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with assassination of John F. Kennedy, the incumbent United States President. A Dallas jury found him guilty of murdering Oswald, and he was sentenced to death. Ruby was granted a new trial and died of a pulmonary embolism from lung cancer on January 3, 1967. In September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald. Various groups believed Ruby was involved with major figures in organized crime and that he killed Oswald as part of an overall plot surrounding the assassination of Kennedy. He was the fifth of his parents’ 10 surviving children. His parents were often violent towards each other and regularly separated; Ruby’s mother was eventually committed to a mental hospital. His troubled childhood and adolescence was marked by juvenile delinquency with time being spent in foster homes. At age 11 in 1922, he was arrested for truancy. Ruby eventually skipped school enough times that he spent time at the Institute for Juvenile Research. Still a young man, he sold horse-racing tip sheets and various novelties, then acted as a business agent for a local refuse collectors union that later became part of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In 1947, Ruby moved to Dallas where he and his brothers soon afterward shortened their surnames from Rubenstein to Ruby. The stated reason for this was that the name was too long and that Ruby was \”well known\” as Jack Ruby.
Ruby later went on to manage various nightclubs, strip clubs, and dance halls. He developed close ties to many Dallas Police officers who frequented his nightclubs. He provided them with free liquor, prostitutes and other favors. Ruby never married and had no children. The Warren Commission received reports of Ruby’s penchant for violence and often resorted to violence with employees who had upset him as bouncer of his club. The commission received reports that Ruby’s club was heavily in debt, he had a volatile temper, and had a penchant for Violence. He had a few friends but had only a few people, but only one of them was a friend of his father’s. There was evidence indicating Jack Ruby had been involved in the underworld activities of illegal gambling, narcotics, and prostitution. A 1956 FBI report stated that their informant, Eileen Curry, had move to Dallas in January of that year together with her boyfriend, James Breen, after jumping bond on narcotics charges. Breen told her that he had made connections with a large narcotics setup operating between Texas, Mexico, and the East, and that James got the okay to operate through Jack Ruby of Dallas. Dallas County Sheriff Steve Guthrie told the FBI that he believed Ruby operated some activities and vices in his club since living there. Dallas jockey Kenneth Dowe testified thatRuby was known around the station for procuring women for different people who came to town for discices.
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