Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.


Jack Ruby was born Jakob Rubenstein to an orthodox Jewish family in 1911 in Chicago. His father could be violent was arrested several times for beating Jack's mother and others. His mother had issues of her own and was eventually confined to a mental institution. This kind of family life found him skipping school so often he was taken into Chicago's juvenile system – sometimes in a detention center and sometimes in foster care.

He was a hustler. He sold racing forms at the horse track with other minor criminal activities. It is believe that during that time and the beginning of World War II he was some kind of low level hood working for Al Capone.

The war came along and he was drafted into the Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic. Here he seems to get along fairly well when his violent temper would occasionally get him in trouble. After the war he returned to Chicago taking regular jobs while maintaining his underworld connections.

In 1947 Jack moved to Dallas to help his sister run a nightclub she owned. It was at this time that Rubenstein became Ruby. Over the years he had several failed night clubs accumulating considerable debt. Eventually getting the Carousel Club running.

During this time he also worked with Meyer Lansky moving weapons to the connection in Havana's Tropicana casino. This activity qualified him to be listed with Washington as an arms dealer. On another trip to Cuba he helped secure the release of Santo Trafficante from Cuban prison. Meanwhile he was profiting from his relationship with the Marcello organization in New Orleans as a paid informant for Richard Nixon's investigations.

The Carousel Club seems to have gone better than his previous ventures and became popular with members of the Dallas police department – perhaps because of the free drinks. His behavior was somewhat mercurial, usually glad handing customers and suddenly flipping out when someone need the help of bouncer in leaving the premises often throwing them down the steps to the second floor club. Good relations with the police helped keep his temper from getting into too much trouble.

Ruby even had issues with the strippers he employed. Often treating them well, but having run ins with the their union. Yes, the strippers have a union. In any case, Ruby had become somewhat a fixture in Dallas. One of the girls recalled seeing Lee Oswald with Ruby in the club. However she was unwilling to testify for Jim Garrison in the Clay Shaw trial.

Coming down to November of 1963 Lyndon Johnson's frequent companion, Madeline Brown noted that Jack Ruby was among those at the home of Clint Murchison on the eve of the assassination. The next day he was arranging ads for his club when the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza. Contrary to the official account, one witness, Acquilla Clemons, claims to have seen two men when JD Tippit was killed – one looked much like Ruby.

In any case, Lee Oswald was arrested but the people in charge determined that he could not go to trial or the truth would be revealed. Jack Ruby received $50,000 which he took to his attorney with instructions to pay off many of the debts from his failed businesses. His assignment was to eliminate Oswald, which he understood that failure would be fatal to him since he already took the money.

To accomplish this he hung around the Dallas police station checking on his whereabouts. He phoned them several times telling them Oswald was in danger and needed to be moved. That plan didn't work and Ruby knew he would not survive failure so he ended up performing a very public execution.

The morning of the 24th, two officers, Blackie Harrison and LD Miller were on duty and, although they were not known to socialize went across the street to the Deluxe Diner for breakfast. It was about this time that Ruby received a phone call letting him know that Oswald was being transferred later in the day. There is no evidence that the call came from either of these officers, as no one would admit to leaking the information. Officer Harrison would later take part in wrestling Ruby to the ground after he shot the prisoner.

He was tried for first degree murder and convicted. During this time columnist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen was the only journalist to get a private interview with Ruby. No one knows what she learned but it may well have been enough to cost her her life.

Ruby's conviction was tossed out and a new trial was scheduled. He was interviewed by the members of the Warren Commission and during their conversation in Ruby's jail cell he begged them to take him back to Washington as his life was in danger. They refused.

Somehow psychologist Jolly West obtained permission to perform an evaluation on Jack Ruby who was functioning quite well at the time. By the time West was finished, Ruby had a complete mental break down and was hiding under his bed screaming that there were people all around wanting to kill Jews. There were no guards or any one present to witness what brought about this change.

Ruby died of cancer before he could stand trial one more time. He complained that some woman from Chicago gave him a shot that gave him cancer. There is no record of who was with Ruby, but Mary Sherman, one of the researchers of using cancer as a weapon, was from Chicago.

Ruby was portrayed in the JFK film by Brian Doyle-Murray,

Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin 
by Danny Fingeroth

As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby’s motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger.

The fascinating yet frustrating thing about Ruby is that there is evidence to paint him as at least two different people. Much of his life story points to him as bumbling, vain, violent, and neurotic; a product of the grinding poverty of Chicago’s Jewish ghetto; a man barely able to make a living or sustain a relationship with anyone besides his dogs. 
By the same token, evidence exists of Jack Ruby as cagey and competent, perhaps not a mastermind, but a useful pawn of the Mob and of both the police and the FBI; someone capable of running numerous legal, illegal, and semi-legal enterprises, including smuggling arms and vehicles to both sides in the Cuban revolution; someone capable of acting as middleman in bribery schemes to have imprisoned Mob figures set free. 

The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen
by Mark Shaw

Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?

These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark Shaw’s 25th book, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much.Through discovery of never-before-seen videotaped eyewitness interviews with those closest to Kilgallen and secret government documents, Shaw unfolds a “whodunit” murder mystery featuring suspects including Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Don Carlos Marcello and a "Mystery Man" who may have silenced Kilgallen. All while by presenting through Kilgallen's eyes the most compelling evidence about the JFK assassinations since the House Select Committee on Assassination’s investigation in the 1970s.

Called by the New York Post, “the most powerful female voice in America,” and by acclaimed author Mark Lane the “the only serious journalist in America who was concerned with who killed John Kennedy and getting all of the facts about the assassination,” Kilgallen’s official cause of death reported as an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, has always been suspect since no investigation occurred despite the death scene having been staged. Shaw proves Kilgallen, a remarkable woman who broke the "glass ceiling" before the term became fashionable, was denied the justice she deserved, that is until now

Get more from Mark Shaw here.