1911-1967
Murdered

A Murder Which Shocked a Nation.

On the afternoon of 22 November 1963 President John F. Kennedy, riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, was killed by an assassin. Within an hour and a half Lee Harvey Oswald was picked up by the police. The press coverage of the assassination and Oswald's arrest was immense. On 24 November Oswald was moved from the Dallas police headquarters, where he had been held, to the county jail. An army of reporters was on hand, and the transfer was broadcast live on national television. Suddenly, a bulky man named Jack Ruby stepped out of the crowd and fatally shot Oswald in the abdomen.

Jack Ruby.

Ruby was a fifty-two-year-old nightclub owner who had lived in Dallas since receiving an honorable discharge from the army in 1946. In Dallas he changed his name from Rubenstein and eventually operated a strip joint called...