Wally Weston was a comedian working at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. One night while he was performing, there was a disturbance between Ruby and a man named Lee Oswald. As Ruby tended toward violence at times, he through the many down the stairs that led up to the club.

Weston kept quiet about this experience for years since he saw many people who may have had a connection to the assassination or those surrounding it were dying – often violently.