The Trial of Jack Ruby
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- The killing of Lee Harvey Oswald on live television was dramatic, and helped to spark decades of speculation about a conspiracy surrounding Kennedy’s assassination. Much less remembered was the trial that followed - a trial to convict a man who had committed murder in front of millions of witnesses.
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I'll label 1963 as a bad year to be a kid. Teachers crying and parents in shock and just generally us second graders wondering what's happened to the world.
I was 5 that year. My mother picked me up from kindergarten when they cancelled school. I was in the backseat and I saw her crying so I stood up on the back seat and leaned into the front and said, "Mommy, mommy, why are you crying?" And with tears streaming down her cheeks, she wailed, "They shot the President!"
I don't remember anything else about it from that time but I remember that like it was 5 minutes ago.
I was in the 2nd grade too. I remember out on recess I saw the principal and teachers lowering the flag to half staff. I went over and asked them why and they told me Kennedy and been shot. Soon after they sent all of us home. I still remember walking in the front door of our house. The house dark, all the curtains closed and the glow of the back and white TV on. My mother sitting in front of the TV in shock. What a day.
1st grade in Dallas, W.A. Blair elementary
Reminds me of 2001,
@@beadyeye2312 I'd argue protecting the people from information is another way to say censorship or information control.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
I don't think we will ever know now. 60 years has gone by. It's difficult, however, for me to NOT conclude that Oswald was killed to silence him.
well ya... it plays out all too nicely: Wayyyyy too many questions of how/why Oswald did it. Whether he could even get those shots off, the magic bullet, witnesses hearing shots from the grassy knoll.. etc etc etc. BUT, instead of finding any of this out at trial... a strip club owner because he's so patriotic kills Oswald?? Bullshit detectors start going off immediately. Then Ruby himself seems out of it, incoherent, not mentally well (maybe he was drugged??). And then Ruby, also conveniently dies a few years later in prison? RFK also is assassinated 4 years later when it looks like he'll be the next president? Also under incredibly suspicious circumstances? It's all so shady from so many different levels.
There is just very little fact that supports that theory. The problem is known as a "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy: deriving a cause from results. Roosters crowing do not make the sun rise.
@@flagmichael No, it's actually not saying roosters cause the sun to rise. Because Oswald was shot before he could actually stand trial and those no real evidence that he even shot Kennedy, all one can do is take in all of the things we DO know surrounding the JFK assassination, and come to a conclusion of what you THINK may or may not have happened. J Edgar Hoover did as much as he possibly could to make sure their wasn't a thorough investigation... we know that. We know Johnson put Allan Dulles former head of the CIA on the Warren Commission, the same Allan Dulles the JFK had just fired because he thought there was too much shady shit going down. That makes absolutely no sense he would be on the Warren Commission. I could go on for paragraphs upon paragraphs of all the stuff that doesn't make sense. A rational person can add all these things up and call bullshit. That rational person might not know WHAT EXACTLY happened but you can certainly call bullshit on the Warren Commission's report.
I was born March 1963, so my folks had a LOT to say about the JFK assassination, but no one ever mentioned Ruby's physical/mental problems. Very interesting 👌
The only so-called problem that Ruby had was that he was a mobster and of course knew the difference between right and wrong
There's a reason JFK's brain came up missing after the autopsy. It doesn't take a genius to figure. Or to figure out why it's still missing and will never be found.
Thats because a lots of these things get invented by people who wish to believe in a conspiracy but are too lazy to do any actual research.
Melvin Belli was a guest star on “Star Trek”. Dorothy Killgallen was murdered while she was doing a story about Ruby. She interviewed him, and later she was found dead and her notes went missing. Love Grandma Debbie
Love Grandma Debbie
Wow, I never knew that Barney Ross testified at Ruby's trial. Thank you!
It was my understanding that Gerald Ford interviewed Ruby in jail. Ruby wanted Ford to move him to Washington to testify in congress, but Ford refused. I heard that from a speaker who was on the Warren Commission.
Which Warren Commission member was that?
"It was my understanding that Gerald Ford interviewed Ruby in jail. Ruby wanted Ford to move him to Washington to testify in congress, but Ford refused."
I recommend you read Ruby's actual testimony which can easily be found on multiple websites online. He was interviewed on June 7, 1964, not only by Gerald Ford, but also by Earl Warren. In fact there were quite a few people present. Here's how the transcript begins:
The President's Commission met at 11:45 a.m., on June 7, 1964, in the interrogation room of the Dallas County Jail, Main and Houston Streets, Dallas, Tex. Present were Chief Justice Earl Warren, Chairman; and Representative Gerald R. Ford, member. Also present were J. Lee Rankin, general counsel; Joseph A. Ball, assistant counsel; Arlen Specter, assistant counsel; Leon Jaworski and Robert G. Storey, special counsel to the attorney general of Texas; Jim Bowie, assistant district attorney; Joe H. Tonahill, attorney for Jack Ruby; Elmer W. Moore, special agent, U.S. Secret Service; and J. E. Decker, sheriff of Dallas County.
And Ruby did not ask Gerald Ford to take him to Washington. He asked Earl Warren to take him to Washington, and it was Warren who explained in detail why that was not possible at the time.
"I heard that from a speaker who was on the Warren Commission."
Say this "speaker's" full name please. I very much doubt anyone who was on the Warren Commission would have ever made the absurd and obviously false claim that Gerald Ford was the person who told Ruby that he would not be taken to Washington.
Ruby knew where he was being held when nobody should have known. Dallas officers let him walk through their stations. He had access to many things police.....like uniforms. They were used for a certain motorcade. One killing was used to cover up another killing.
Thanks for this - another well-chosen and well-presented subject. I'm perfectly satisfied that Oswald shot Kennedy and acted alone, but Ruby is the character in this drama that has always fascinated me.
Lol this was so obvious a hit to silence Oswald that a child could figure that out
The Kennedy assassination is one of my earliest memories. I still recall that we had the TV on but I went to the kitchen with my mother to get some lunch, only to return to the TV moments later to see the confusion just moments after Ruby had shot Oswald. After all my decades of interest in this history, I did not know about the trial of Jack Ruby. Thanks.
Me, too! Earliest memories.
We're roughly the same age and we have similar memories. I don't recall Ruby's trial but vividly remember JFK's and Oswald's death.
Thumbs up if you believe the assassination of JFK was a conspiracy.
My earliest memory was a JFK assassination and all that followed I was 5 at the time
I was born in that year, which when people question my year I refer to ' the same year John Kennedy was killed "
I watched the murder of Oswald on live television. The look on the face of the detective escorting him and the grimace on Oswald's are something that I remember to this day.
Me too. Sunday afternoon on channel 5 in Ft. Worth, TX. (My Dad was in Vietnam at the time.) Sitting in my grandmother's living room watching footage live on an old black and white TV. I remember thinking at the time- I was 7- 'Wow, that guy just got whacked-for real". Weird.
The story back then was that Ruby worked with the CIA. He had terminal cancer so this was a suicide mission. Also talk was that he was given anything he wanted in prison. Liquor, drugs, women. No way of knowing if that was true but I remember hearing talk of that back then.
@@eddieboggs8306 I think you meant to say Ruby, but I've heard almost the same thing, but that a rather large life insurance policy was "found". Large enough to care for his family. Who knows...🤷♂️
@@george217
Aaaah my mistake.
Sorry.
@@eddieboggs8306ruby did not work with the CIA. Those kinds of lies cause people to believe in the conspiracy nonsense.
The judicial system has never been as clean as we wish it should be.
Too many egos on the benches.
Given we gave up article 2 courts long ago - to say nothing of real common law courts before that - it should be no surprise.
"If crime didn't pay,..there'd be no crime"
G Gordon Liddy
And the fiction writers of the national news media have made millions of dollars writing fake conspiracy books, TV shows and movies about Kennedy's shooting.
The most corrupt industry in the USA is the national news media.
Weird fact: Belli played a child-corrupting force of evil, disguised as an angel, on an episode of the original Star Trek series. Lawyers are weird.
Belli’s style and demeanor did not play well in Texas. Percy Foreman would have been a better lawyer for Ruby in Texas.
This episode in my opinion is the one that ranks as the worst of any variant of Star Trek to this day. I always wondered how he even got to play the "angel".
I think it's called And The Children Shall Lead.
Thank you very much for this topic. Great job. I know your rrsources are limited, but also wish you had been able to include the trial reporting done by Dorothy Kilgallen too, as well as her mysterious and untimely death documented by Mark Shaw, who knew Melvin Belli. Recommend checking out Marks book and TH-cam presentation about the trial.
I was in the 2nd grade about 90 miles from Dallas. The teacher had brought a TV in and we were watching the news. After it happened....it was a little chaotic. My teacher was crying and not long afterward, school was shut down and my mother picked me up. Very sad day in American History.
Thank you, THG for reminding us of this strange and forgotten piece of "recent" history. Great job telling the tale.
ruby was a mobster and was ordered to knock off oswald, being an "inside" man with the dallas pd
For many years, Bill Alexander, who prosecuted Ruby, lived and office in the same building as I in downtow Dallas. He was a great attorney and mentor. He wouldnt talk much about the JFK stuff but he did show me hand written letters from Ruby. Ruby hated his lawyers and was begging Bill to quit the DA's office and represent him. Bill was a good man and great attorney and I am honored he showed me and let me hold in my hand such a piece of history.
You should just tell the guy he gets you horny instead of going on rants like this. It's ok though, your secret is safe on YT.
That is super cool!
Not a single mention of Dorothy Kilgallen, she definitely deserved to be remembered. She was the only person to interview Ruby while in jail.
And was killed for what she knew
Absolutely. She ended up knowing too much, and too few remember her or her investigation. They really got away with sweeping that one under the rug.
@@OfficialSparklyPig Yes, they leapt into action , waited two years, and killed her for...?
I'd like to hear The History Guy on that too.
@Pygar2 she was an investigative reporter. She didn't release anything until it was confirmed by multiple sources. She was going to go to Dallas to follow up with a source when she was killed.
Yep, remember the JFK assassination well, the day before my 10th birthday. Talk about a lousy birthday...
All these things about JFK and the upcoming 60th anniversary are important to me as I was born on that day, November 22, 1963. I look forward to hearing more about this topic from you. Thank you.
I was born day JFK was elected. Its sad we have gone from such an intelligent president who served with honor in the Navy to the draft dodger crook that 45 is n people still have trump flags n signs out in some places hopefully people wake up to know woke is aware awake n not a fox fake news buzz word . Hopefully 45 n the plotters will be locked up in 2024
What a day to be born..wow!!
@@sandrasanders706 President Kennedy was my president for sadly only about four hours.
happy birthday!
@@repeatdefender6032 Thank you!
Melvin Belli, Ruby's lawyer, also did some acting on the side. One of his most famous roles was on the original Star Trek, where he played Gorkin - the last survivor of a race of what Spock called "marauders" who used the planet as a base. Because don't all good stories involve pirates?
I don't know about a pirate and good story? But I do know all big lies involve a lawyer
Ruby and Nixon knew each other personally.Google it.
@@timtaylor9307 The "good stories involving pirates" meme is courtesy of The History Guy..
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@@thelastjohnwayne Thanks - my bad. I just remembered he was wearing what looked like a clown dress in the episode.
I knew Asst DA Bill Alexander personally. He was an interesting man. We had lunch together often at the lunch room in our office building. He always maintained that Oswald was a "punk" and solely responsible. he didn't talk about Ruby much. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Your friend bill was right. Actually oswald wanted to kill some other guy, i forget who, but failed. If was just dumb luck kennedy happened to be near Oswald.
@@marveloussoftware4914 I dunno. A pair of my friends who were discussing the shooting of JFK were assessing Oswald's sniping skill level if the accepted details of the shooting are true. The heart of the matter was the short time frame of the three shots. Both were practiced sharpshooters, having recently been in a 1 mile competition. Their consensus was that he could have done it, but he would be mighty good to get the three shots off with that level of effect in that time frame.
Everybody knew Kennedy would be along that route that morning (the roads were cordoned off) so I'd be surprised if he were expecting somebody else.
@@flagmichael People have replicated the shots. Do some research. Just because your friends cant do it doesn't mean nobody can do it. Dont forget he missed the first shot entirely. Got close with the second then was right on with the third. That is exactly how you zero in on a target.
Also sharshooters are the middle ranking. It goes, from the lowest to highest: Marksman, Sharpshooter then Expert. So an expert can easily out shoot a sharpshooter.
My late Father-in-law was an attorney with the California State Bar. He once handled a case to have Belli disbarred. He says he could had done it had his superiors not asked him to close the case.
If the case of JFK is so cut and dry and canon why the refusal by the government to release documents on it to this day?
Because obviously they contain the smoking gun and the people currently willing to cover up a murder couldn’t possibly ever destroy a document.
@@RoundingThirdduh. That's why the OP said what he did.
They don't want nutbars to harass and even kill the people named, or their families.
@@Pygar2you mean the (((country))) named.
A variety of reasons, most of which we can only presume by the agencies making them unavailable. Many are IRS, a number of them are transcriptions of interviews with family, and others are less clear. YT prohibits links, but the list can be found as the first result in googling JFK Assassination Records Withheld in Full List
I am 75 and have always believed that Ruby killed Oswald to keep him from talking. And no, I am not normally a conspiracy person.
Exactly, Ruby had Mob connections and the CIA was trying to use the Mob to assassinate Castro
I am 76 and was a Junior in High School when this all started. It all smelled of corruption and how many people tied to the JFK assassination died of unusual circumstances.
If you think that you're literally a conspiracy person.
I totally agree with you. Ruby had contact with the Mafia,who didn't like Kennedy. I also know people who believe that Johnson was behind it.
@@pax6833not really. Easy to paint with a wide brush I suppose.
Ruby was born Jacob Leon Rubenstein on or around March 25 or April 25, 1911, in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago, the son of Joseph Rubenstein and Fannie Turek Rutkowski (or Rokowsky), both Polish-born Orthodox Jews from Sokołów.
Ok, so what?
President Kennedy was assassinated on my Mom and Dad's wedding anniversary. Lee Harvey Oswald was shot on the day my cousin was born. So, this piece of history will be part of my family forever. However, as the surviving family member who cares about history, the memory will probably die with me. And that is a sad thing. "Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it."
And there so many who don't care about history.
I think you are too old 😂😂
The only input I can give is, that I worked with a guy who used to hang out in Rubys bar. He said, "When I heard that Jack Ruby shot Oswald, I wasn't suprised in the least. He was always doing stupid a-- s--- in order to get attention. I wasn't suprised in the least".
I learned something today. Thank you History Guy.
Jack Rubinstein spoke of the mafia to Chief Justice Earl Warren but no-one asked which mafia that was. Everyone assumed it was the Italian mafia and Rubinstein, oh sorry… Jack Ruby got away without having to reveal which mafia he was referring to. Such an oversight is the epitome of making an ass of u and me.
"Jack Rubinstein spoke of the mafia to the judge on the church committee but no-one asked which mafia that was. Everyone assumed it was the Italian mafia and Rubinstein, oh sorry… Jack Ruby got away without having to reveal which mafia he was referring to."
If by "Jack Rubinstein" you mean Jack Ruby (whose original last name was Rubenstein), he could not have spoken to the Church Committee because he died eight years before the Church Committee was formed.
Santo trafficante Jr mafia boss of Tampa Florida. Ruby would fly to Cuba give money to get trafficante out jail , eventually he did. Google it. Also Oswald uncle was charles Dutz murret, a bookie for the mafia. Oswald spent a lot of time with when he was younger. Google ,there names . Google there names with CiA . Better yet Google, CIA scandals.
It has always been my opinion that Oswald and Ruby were "cahoots" and he shot Oswald to shut him up, but that is only MY opinion!
What did Dorothy K. know that Jack Ruby told her that cost her her life. And a report sealed for 75 years. Long enough for everyone involved to “ not be held accountable “.
Except the Bush family are still in politics.
Nothing
@@Lance-Stroll
^^^^^^^^^^^^^member of the Bush family/CIA/TEXAS consortium
Why is your big deal about the subject really only taken seriously by the laziest of researchers and moat popular on TH-cam?
@@RoundingThird
Says you. Your ad hominem attack is noted.
As a 5 yr old when these events occurred, I distinctly recall being put out over the preemption of Saturday Morning Cartoons in favor of news coverage.
My Dad was acquainted with both Kennedy and Nixon. And had the TV tuned to the news continuously so that was why I was sitting in front of the TV When Oswald was shot.
Now days there's an almost unlimited amount of odd people who call their dogs their children.
@@magpie9208 And extremely annoying.
It seems to be an affliction both of adults who choose not to have children, and their parents who don't have grandchildren.
Seriously! The whole "fur baby" thing has become widely accepted now.
It's almost as if Jack Ruby was just another useful fool.
Belli appeared in "And the Children Shall Lead", a 1968 episode of the original Star Trek series. In it he appears as "Gorgan, the Friendly Angel", an evil being who corrupts a group of children, one of whom was played by his son Caesar
A former coworker had been in Dallas about a week before 3:50 JFK was shot. He went to a bar and had a drink with a guy who was sitting there, Lloyd Ruby. During the 30 minutes or so my coworker was there, Ruby talked a lot about how he hated the Kennedy family. My coworker was from Massachusetts and still had his accent. It is not clear if Ruby was just gigging him because of the accent, or if he genuinely did not like the Kennedy’s.
A lot of people on both sides of the law hated Kennedy
Lloyd Ruby the race car Driver? Or the infamous murderer?
I think you can safely assume that Ruby hated Kennedy.
I was in the 7th grade, in the Deep South, when Kennedy died.
Almost all white people here hated Kennedy then.
You can learn a lot in bar but there’s a lot of BS too
This is one of your most important videos THG. The public must be educated about what happened 60 years ago. Thank you for posting.
I love your content and here is one reason why. I remember all of this very vividly. I was eight and loved Camelot and JFK, much to the chagrin of my Goldwater Republican Father. He studied everything he could find about the investigation of the assasination but also the everybody associated with the investigation. I heard all of the conspiracy theoies you mention and more. What a trip down the memory rabbit hole (to mix a metaphor or two).
I hope you grew out of it, JFK was as crooked as any other president.
Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks played at a nightclub in Fort Worth. Band member Robbie Robertson said the club owner was hopped up on dexedrine and acting erratically. They later saw his picture on TV. It was Jack Ruby.
Hawkins was a little "erratic" himself, but that's a different story
RIP Robbie
Dorothy Kilgallan lost her life because of what she found out from Ruby. Ms Kilgallan was murdered.
The coroner ruled otherwise. The more popular version of that conspiracy theory is that she was going to interview Ruby before his death and that assassins somehow got her to consume potentially lethal amounts of barbiturates and alcohol.
She had a short conversation with Ruby in court during a recess; it is hard to imagine anything secret would have been openly discussed in a courtroom, or that no bailiffs would have been present to ensure Ruby stayed put.
"Dorothy Kilgallan lost her life because of what she found out from Ruby."
Then why did "they" wait twenty months after her one and only interview with Ruby to kill her?
She interviewed him in prison. She was subsequently silenced just like Oswald and Rubinstein were.
ya have NO FACTS OR EVIDENCE
Melvin Belli even appeared as a villain on the original Star Trek
Gorgon in the episode ‘And the Children Shall Lead’. One of Trek’s worst episodes. Belli dressed in a giant shower curtain! 😂
@@Cydonia2020 Watching that episode was the first time I'd ever heard of him. Now I know he was connected with The Rolling Stones, the Zodiac Killer and today I learned, Jack Ruby
@@Cydonia2020 Remember the planet whose people wore placemats?
@@Pygar2 Elaan of Troyus. The Elasian guards wore placemats.
Almost as bad as Klingon belt buckles. They were bubble wrap!
I just recently finished reading Vincent Bugliosi's book "Reclaiming History" about the assassination, so this was familiar to me. Nonetheless, THG did a fine job of summarizing the facts of the case.👍
I was 11 when JFK was shot, have had an interest in the various rumors and theories about the assassination ever since, and have read many of the better-known books on the subject. I can only suggest to anyone wanting to understand what truly happened that day (as much as anyone can) that they read "Reclaiming History". It is a massive book (1500+ pages), exhaustively researched, and pretty much closes the case on what happened as well as dealing with most of the conspiracy theories that have clouded these matters for so long.
Dont ever change your theme song. It's a good one
Who is truly not remembered is Dallas Patrol Officer J.D. Tippett, who was killed by Oswald on 11 22 63; within a 1/2 hour of Kennedy's being shot. He deserves to be remembered.
I enjoy your YT channel.
Tippit was murderd by a Oswald Double, shot 4 times. a witness saw ''Oswald''? shoot Tippit, but-- several witnesses also saw Oswald ?? miles away. On that morning, when Tippit got ready to go on duty, He hugged his son, and said, 'Something real bad might happen today son'' and left the house. His son's revelation, on YT. seek it out.
@@MrDaiseymayYeah many felt the Texas trip was a bad idea and if something did happen to JFK it would be in Dallas. That's what he was talking about. Let's not drag Tippit into any wacko conspiracy.
@@MrDaiseymay Considering that Oswald was on foot it would be difficult for him to be seen miles away a mere half hour after the shooting at Dealey Plaza.
@@MrDaiseymay
It is said that Oswald never killed anyone, it was the 2nd shot that killed JFK, and that came from the front.
Oswald was a pawn, every Presidential assassination seems to have one.
I too was born in March 1963 and always been fascinated by the assassination. I never heard about Ruby’s trial, claims or death. Fascinating.
Ruby did not fatally shoot Oswald "in the open" as you erroneously state in the intro. This occurred in the basement of the police station. Ruby was only inside the station because he was good friends with the police. It's known through interviews that the Dallas police often frequented his night club and enjoyed preferred status there. Ruby was also frequently seen around the police station prior to the incident and this is backed up by witnesses who were there. Much of this testimony is hard to find because it never makes it into the Warren Report. Ruby shouldn't have been anywhere near that prisoner and any jail attendant can tell you that situation was not textbook for transportation of a high value prisoner like the man who just shot the president. But it definitely did not happen "in the open" as stated. That's simply not true.
It was in an open corridor surrounded by reporters, not some closet.
It was out in a crowd....in the open.
Also your comment is way too long.
Oswald was to be transferred at 10am as publicized, but Ruby wasn’t there at 10am. When Oswald was scheduled to be transfered Ruby was down the street at the Western Union office transfering money to a stripper to pay her rent. The Western Union receipt has the exact time Ruby was in the office. Had there been any delay at Western Union, he never would have been at the scene to carry out the act.
Also, Ruby’s dogs were in his car…who takes their dogs to a murder.’
Who takes their dogs to a murder? Somebody stupid. Who kills someone on tv? 'Nuff said.
@marveloussoftware4914 Or someone who is impulsive and unstable and acts on his emotions on a whim. Like LHO, just a couple of nut jobs.
Right, so much for Ruby being paid or ordered to kill Oswald, he damn near slept through the transfer. Some dependable mobster hit man there lol. Ruby was a clown and a wannabe and nobody would have trusted him with this or anything. Ruby told his brother Earl he did it to spare Jackie and the family the pain of a trial and that's probably the truth.
@@thud9797 yep, all his relatives and close friends who lived with him everyday found it laughable to suggest he was some kinda mob hit man. But 60 years later the foil hats know better than those closest to him.
I was 12 years old and in school when JFK was killed we were let out early not told why some teachers were crying I was in Church when Ruby killed Oswald but when we got home it was on the news. Today there is more doubt than ever about those events.
I was only 6 years old when JFK was assassinated . I was living in Los Angeles at the time. That was a sad day. I remember my mom was crying. When Oswald was shot and killed my parents we shocked. Now I know what happen to Jack Ruby. You told that bet of history so well. Thanks.👍
I still remember my daddy exclaiming, "Jack Ruby has kicked the bucket!" when he died in prison.
Thank you for sharing this. ❤
Ruby walked into a room filed with police to kill Oswald, nobody, especially a man of his reputation should have been able to be anywhere near the building. It made conspiracy theories much easier.
So, his real name was Rubinstein and he was dying from cancer. Nothing to see here falks, move away!
I agree with some of the other comments. It would be great if you made a video about Dorothy Kilgallen.
I believe that to be the most B.S. defense argument anyone could dream up! Fugue state ? Are you serious? Ruby got there early, laying in wait, armed and ready to use the few minutes of opportunity to make his move. If that does not scream premeditation ,what does?
It's more realistic than the "Twinkie defense"" used by Dan White's defense team during his trial for killing San Francisco mayor George Moscone.
He did no such thing. He left Western Union at a known time, walked down the ramp, realized that the transfer, delayed by Oswald, wasn't over... and seized the chance.
Not only that, the cops let him in
@@Pygar2how naive can you be
@@erniesmith871 What are you denying? The telegram he sent, it's receipt, the witnesses who saw him enter? Oswald's dawdling to put on a sweater?
Seems like everyone talks about Oswald but few will talk fact about Jack Ruby so I really appreciated this episode of The History Guy! Growing up in Dallas and ultimately becoming a Paramedic serving the people of North Texas gave me tremendous access to some of the players in that event. No names but one of Ruby’s showgirls, an ambulance driver on duty that day AND the day Kennedy was shot, a nurse that was in Parkland ER and even the guy that sold Ruby the gun, they all tell the same story: “People that talk about what they saw perish in peculiar ways.”
Please do a video about the Hurricane creek mine disaster. It’s responsible for the strengthening of MSHA laws. Loretta Lyn did a benefit concert for it. Tom T. Hall wrote a song inspired by it. The County Judge Executive punched the head of the coal company responsible. December 30, 1970. 39 men died. It’s history that deserves to be remembered.
I suspect modern medicine has more clearly identified the kind of symptoms associated with a temporal lobe seizure, and that walking across town, waiting for a few hours for a man to be brought out, and then shooting him isn't one of them.....?
He drove, left WU at a known time, strolled into the garage minutes after Oswald should have been gone had he not dawdled... He saw his chance and took it.
I'm not a conspiratorial minded person at all, but there are so many weird things about this case that I don't really buy the official explanations.
Same. No idea what happened, but the official story is more dubious than a salesmans story.
For every weird fact there are many, many weird rumors and hoaxes.
It's true, I never knew what happened to Jack Ruby. Decades of rumors, speculation and theories made the whole event fuzzy and virtually impossible to see clearly.
Open the archives, let the world know. End of story...truth ends false speculation.
Looks like I'm not the only person commenting who was a 7-year Catholic second grader in a Catholic school when I heard the news (it was the first major news story I can clearly recall). It came in two parts, with an announcement by the principal over the PA right after we had started afternoon classes following lunch. Sister said that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas; we said a prayer for him and returned to our lessons, but I was distracted and confused. I remember thinking, how could someone shoot JFK if he was on a boat? In my mind, Kennedy was always on a boat, whether it was PT-109 or sailing in the waters off the family compound, and recently, I had seen a photo of him aboard a Navy ship watching a missile test. I didn't know much about Texas geography at the time, but I was fairly sure Dallas wasn't near the ocean (ironically, I later lived there). Anyway, it seemed as if only a few minutes had passed, when Sister came back on the PA and said that the President was dead. We were told to gather up our books and coats and were marched over to the new, still unfinished church, and one of our priests led us in prayer, and then we were sent home. It was wall to wall coverage on all the networks that weekend; oddly, I was the only member of my family NOT in the living room, watching as Jack Ruby shot Oswald on live TV.
I remember watching this as a child of 7 years old on T.V. as my Mom was telling us about it. 60 years ago. Killing was so more rare than today. I remember not having school when a President died, or other things happening, flags at half mass.
You'll be surprised to know that the murder rate in the 60s was higher vs the last decade. Per 100,000 of the population the 1960s averaged 5.5, while the 2010s are at 4.8. It's perception, news is a lot more accessible and quicker, so you're probably hearing of murders that you wouldn't have been aware of 60s ago.
@@kutter_ttl6786 You are absolutely correct. But you will never hear that fact from the news media or a politician.
This is extremely untrue. Killings were about way more common back then. You just heard about it a lot less because there was no social media or 24hr news.
what? pre-2000 crime statistics are horrible. and im not a boomer! many people from those times always say they didnt realize it was so bad
Dear History Guy,
PLEASE LEVEL your AUDIO.
Cant hear you in parts, then the next thing you know my surround sound is bumping your outro music like its 1999.
The attorney who won Jack Ruby his appeal, Paul Rothstein, was my torts professor in law school 20+ years ago. I remember him telling us that Jack Ruby was just a guy who was pissed that Kennedy was killed. It was that simple. No conspiracy at all.
Exactly. The whole conspiracy boils down to the fact that the elite media has never coped with the fact that their hero was murdered by a loser in Oswald. They think that he's not 'worthy' to have killed JFK. Everything follows from that.
Your torts attorney was an idiot, as I said elsewhere, Ruby himself said it was a conspiracy. More than likely, he was, like so many, just playing it safe and didn't want to say anything. Sorry, but it's people like you that continue to keep the truth from the American people.
Exactly
Interesting that none of the other comments are visible
Yeah, I don't believe that for a second.
"He would act as an automation"? I think you mean he would act as an automaton.
I was watching a history program the other day and you were one of the commentators. You were not wearing a bow tie. My wife was passing by and said, "Isn't he the History Guy?" I said yes and then she said, "Where is his bow tie?". I said that I didn't know. She said, "That is weird."
That was The UnXplained. They specifically asked me not to wear the bow tie.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel It is a shame that anti-bowtieism still exists in this country.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel as I former State of Texas auditor for a regulatory agency of 17 years, I loved wearing my bow ties with diamond tips. Pity the fool who laughed at my bow tie.
Jacob Rubinstein changed his name as no to sound so Jewish rumor has it .
The Mob Museum is a must for any history buff visiting Las Vegas. And there’s a fun speakeasy in the basement.
I've been by Ruby's club, or rather where it used to be. It's been a rather bad neighborhood for a good while now. My father also stated he once went into Ruby's club. He said it was the one place he felt the least comfortable in being.
"A good while"? Given the nature of Ruby's club, I would suggest that it's been "a rather bad neighborhood" for more than 60 years.
@@pulaski1 That's very likely.
Jack Ruby was just a patriotic American who was outraged by the killing of JFK. That's why he shot Oswald. What's that? Ruby was just doing what his mob bosses ordered him to do, to silence Oswald before he could start singing like a canary about who put him up to it? NAHHHH! No way could THAT be true!
We're coming up 60th anniversary of the assassination. I don't remember Ruby being shot. On the 22nd I was in kindergarten class in Kailua, Hawaii. One of the teachers opened the door to the classroom. She was crying. My teacher started crying. As we left school all the radios in all the cars were on. Dad was in the Marine Corps stationed at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station. They had all been recalled due to the threat of a wider plot. At that time the nightly news was taped, flown on a plane to Honolulu and run at 10.30pm. When I got home the President's picture was on the screen framed in black and and we listened to the live audio.
A very different time.
I'll always thing there is much more to this story. Was Ruby ever allowed to tell his story to the public?
His mental health declined rapidly and he was most certainly unable to give a coherent account of his actions.
He told his story only to Dorothy Kilgallen, a famous writer and tv personality. She was working on a book about the assassination and had warned friends it was going to be big or it would cost her her life. She was found dead and all of her research and book stuff disappeared overnight. Look into it.
@@OfficialSparklyPig True about her coverage of the story, unsubstantiated rumor about threats.
Crazy how Jolly Roger was not mentioned. When he in fact did meet with ruby in prison. Jolly Roger was one of the CIA who worked on project MK Ultra
What I find amazing about this whole story is that the murder occurred in November 1963, and the trial was held in March 1964. Instead of the 2-3 year delays we see now. Also, Henry Wade is most well known for another case, where he was the defendant being sued by an woman called "Jane Roe".
"Jane Roe" is the female counterpart of "John Doe." They are standard names to stand in for female and male persons not named.
@@flagmichael I'm well aware of that. The case was "Roe vs Wade". You might have heard of it.
So what is your point ?@@johnjones5354
Very cool reading of the indictment. He, "violated the safety and dignity of the People of Texas". Love the old-timey language.
Does anyone worry about dignity, anymore?
Since the appeals court threw out the initial verdict, that means Ruby died an innocent man.
Yeah that's how it works.
Why did Trump say LBJ lookin up from hell. Did Trump learn damning stuff while president?
While I was only less than 20 days old at the time, these three things I know: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby are all dead.
Ruby was a PROVEN mobster....all of his career.
A very specific supremacist type, his real name was Jack Rubinstein.
@@skipintroux4444 So what?
@@Jasona1976 people of his race often assume western names to commit crimes, lots of people are noticing.
@@skipintroux4444 bigot. Jewish is not a race you fool.
I remember seeing this unforgettable event on live tv. I was just 14 then and something about the whole thing seemed not only surreal but totally weird. It still does all these years later. Maybe we were just numb, in shock with all that had recently happened.
Just never thought we would ever see a man murdered on national TV. So unthinkable at that time. Still shocking 60 years later.
You sure you saw that live? Don't know where you lived, but the assassination happened in the early afternoon in the Eastern time zone (where I lived) on a school day.
I was 6 years old.
Sunday CBS Black & White..
@@tomfields3682 ruby killing Oswald. Sunday .
Transfer.
@@finddeniro My mistake. I thought Rene was talking about the assassination, not Oswald's killing.
I don't remember hearing that Jack Ruby was a Communist or a gun-runner, but the idea that he was involved with the Mob seemed almost universally accepted at the time. I didn't see the killing live, but the film of it happening was on the evening news, and the late news, and the next day on daytime TV, and onward for what seemed like weeks, shown again and again and again. I was in junior high school at the time.
Thr mob thing was on the nose, especially at the time. Kennedy had crossed the mob hard and since Ruby ran a seedy strip joint, it had that feel around it. I have no idea where the truth lies, just pointing out some correlations people use.
Michael Franzese laid it out on his TH-cam channel. The mob ordered the hit. Michael's father even knew Jack Ruby back in the day.
It is generally accepted, that the Mob, May, have provided one or more of the sharp shooter's. But hadn't the power to organise anything else, to do with what and when the President would do that day, outside his plans.such as his cars change of route. OR----changing a well accepted feature of presidential Motorcades, in which a well known group of top pressmen, who ALWAYS, were allowed to ride on a open flat-bed truck, in front of the presidents car, so as to take uninteruppted photographs, and films, of the President and his wife.ONLY ON THIS DAY, were the press denied this , and were 3-4 vehicles behind the presidential vehicle. Check it out . THE REASON FOR THIS, NEEDS NO EXPLANATION.@@sinisterthoughts2896
most obvious question never answered, or apparently even asked: who paid for ruby's defense?
Let us not forget Oswald also gunned down Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit that fateful day in Dallas. May Officer Tippit Rest in Peace.
Let's not forget that the evidence against Oswald on that killing was sketchy at best and there was never a trial.
@@mikebronicki8264 Yes, the witnesses, plural, and his weapon, matched to the crime, and the fact that he pulled it out minutes later and tried to shoot the arresting officers... is "sketchy". In a pig's eye.
What kind of evidence would it take for a CTer to admit the obvious?
@@mikebronicki8264 "Let's not forget that the evidence against Oswald on that killing was sketchy at best and there was never a trial."
Let's also not forget that the one and only reason there was no trial is because Jack Ruby killed Oswald before he had a chance to be tried.
@@mikebronicki8264 Lets not forget , Oswald had no Bullet proof vest , for such a high profile prisoner .
aramid / kevlar vests entered market in 1967
In the building when LHO was shot was none other than UK DJ John Peel. He was the first to play on the air such artists such as Hendrix, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, the Sex Pistols, David Bowie, and thousands of other major names. Yes, thousands.
MOSSAD, MOSSAD, MOSSAD
Touche!
I saw it. We had just come home from church and turned the TV o 3:41 n and right before our eyes, there Oswald-shot dead.
When i was a kid, i had an obsession with the JFK assassination, so i read Jim Garrison's book "On the Trail of the Assassins" when i was 9 or 10 years old, and for anybody interested in the larger story, it's a must-read.
I didn’t read the book, but if Oliver Stone’s take on Garrison follows the book, then I’d call him a marginal crackpot. Stone’s film is very entertaining but is long on historical fiction. Conspiracy theories are fun, but for me, the preponderance of evidence points to Oswald acting alone.
Too many coincidental associations. Ferrie to Oswald, the Russian legend that never was, etc. For me, the fact that LHO was there at the perfect time and place plus his actions leading to his arrest smells of tradecraft and a betrayal by someone connected to the assassination. And that, even if he never met Ruby, equals conspiracy.
In other words, LHO had help.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re Oswald didn’t need help. Plain and simple.
@@Nicksonian His actions post assassination? This is how you set up a rendezvous for extraction. Plus how did the Dallas P.D., one of the most corrupt ever, get into him so quickly? Did they already know he was going to do something? Then why not prevent it? And then if they knew he'd killed JFK, or even thought so, why no charge as such? They only charged him with shooting the cop. And multiple people stated that there were more than one person involved. And Ruby just happens to be there? Give me a break.
@@Nicksonian- Not ONE single witness has EVER come forward and stated that they personally saw LHO shooting his rifle at the President.
If LHO was indeed the “lone shooter” that day, why did President Johnson and the Warren Commission order the Documents of the Investigation sealed for 75 years? After all, it was supposedly just one “lone nut.” What was in the Investigation to keep from the Public?
Ruby was acting on orders from Santo Traficante Jr. He knew Oswald and David Ferrie well.
Put down the crack pipe. 🤐
My high school class was at my house watching our TV when this happened.
I'm only here for the, "I knew a guy, who knew a guy" fake comments. There are plenty.
Oswalt was a patsy!
Some of the congratulatory telegrams sent to Jack Ruby: th-cam.com/video/-sZ_oNqs-ls/w-d-xo.html
I read a book about Ruby. His coworker said he loved Jack Kennedy. They also said he was furious that lee harvey oswald killed him.
I'm sure that's what the FBI wants you to believe.
Did the book say his real last name was Rubinstein?
@@forkthepork Who cares? If the FBI, which wasn't even there, wants me to believe the verifiable truth, good for them!
This has the dreadful stench of hasbara all over it.
Ill never believe that Oswald acted alone. Theres way too much about the JFK assassination that either doesn't add up or adds up yo something much bigger
This is a good one! I am a History Guy fan!
You should have gone into Rudy's Mafia connect.
I understand the swirling conspiracies... the deaths of both Oswald and Ruby, so soon after the assassination, so that the truth is never determined, is surely enough to give anyone pause. In the end we will never know with certainty. I am not a fan of JFK, but it was a horrible day for America. Thanks History Guy.
@@RichardM333what's that got to do with 6.5mm?