Okla-homey
3/14/2008, 06:20 AM
March 14, 1964: Jack Ruby sentenced to death
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44 years ago today, Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner and thug with known underworld ties who killed Lee Harvey Oswald is found guilty of the "murder with malice" of Oswald and sentenced to "ride the lightning" in the tejas electric chair.
It was the first courtroom verdict to be televised in U.S. history.
On November 24, 1963, two days after Kennedy's assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. A crowd of police and press with live television cameras rolling gathered to witness his departure.
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Caught in the act
As Oswald came into the room, Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot to the gut from a Colt "Cobra" .38 caliber revolver.
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Florida real estate developer Anthony Pugliese III paid $200K for the gun that Jack Ruby used to kill John Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in November of 1963. This Saturday and Sunday (March 15 and 16,) he will put the gun up for auction along with about 150 other Kennedy-related items at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Since he purchased the notorious .38 Colt Cobra revolver at auction in 1991, Pugliese thinks its value has increased substantially, as evidenced by his intent to start the bidding at something over $1 million. Guernsey's (a New York-based auction house) is handling the logistics of the Vegas event. When Ruby originally bought the handgun in 1960, it cost him $62.50. (Of course, in those days you could get a movie ticket for 35 cents.)
Ruby, who was immediately detained, claimed he was distraught over the president's assassination. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder.
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Ruby and a squad of his strippers
Jack Ruby, (originally known as Jacob Rubenstein before he changed his name to sound less Jewish), operated strip joints and dance halls in Dallas and had minor connections to organized crime. He also had a relationship with a number of Dallas policemen, which amounted to various favors in exchange for leniency in their monitoring of his establishments where liquor, nekkidness and steamy 15 minute "private parties" with strippers was rampant.
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He features prominently in Kennedy-assassination theories, and many believe he killed Oswald to keep him from revealing a larger conspiracy. In his trial, Ruby denied the allegation and pleaded innocent on the grounds that his great grief over Kennedy's murder had caused him to suffer "psychomotor epilepsy" and shoot Oswald unconsciously. The jury didn't buy it and found him guilty and sentenced him to die.
In October 1966, the Texas Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the grounds the trial court judge improperly admitted certain prejudicial testimony and the fact that Ruby could not have received a fair trial in Dallas at the time. In January 1967, while awaiting a new trial to be held in Wichita Falls, Ruby died of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital.
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http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/47447/2003501815471416635_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003501815471416635)
44 years ago today, Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner and thug with known underworld ties who killed Lee Harvey Oswald is found guilty of the "murder with malice" of Oswald and sentenced to "ride the lightning" in the tejas electric chair.
It was the first courtroom verdict to be televised in U.S. history.
On November 24, 1963, two days after Kennedy's assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. A crowd of police and press with live television cameras rolling gathered to witness his departure.
http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/47024/2003529897683617189_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003529897683617189)
Caught in the act
As Oswald came into the room, Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot to the gut from a Colt "Cobra" .38 caliber revolver.
http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/47070/2003556141023153408_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003556141023153408)
Florida real estate developer Anthony Pugliese III paid $200K for the gun that Jack Ruby used to kill John Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in November of 1963. This Saturday and Sunday (March 15 and 16,) he will put the gun up for auction along with about 150 other Kennedy-related items at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Since he purchased the notorious .38 Colt Cobra revolver at auction in 1991, Pugliese thinks its value has increased substantially, as evidenced by his intent to start the bidding at something over $1 million. Guernsey's (a New York-based auction house) is handling the logistics of the Vegas event. When Ruby originally bought the handgun in 1960, it cost him $62.50. (Of course, in those days you could get a movie ticket for 35 cents.)
Ruby, who was immediately detained, claimed he was distraught over the president's assassination. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder.
http://aycu40.webshots.com/image/49239/2003553475528510899_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003553475528510899)
Ruby and a squad of his strippers
Jack Ruby, (originally known as Jacob Rubenstein before he changed his name to sound less Jewish), operated strip joints and dance halls in Dallas and had minor connections to organized crime. He also had a relationship with a number of Dallas policemen, which amounted to various favors in exchange for leniency in their monitoring of his establishments where liquor, nekkidness and steamy 15 minute "private parties" with strippers was rampant.
http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/45711/2003519581806564279_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2003519581806564279)
He features prominently in Kennedy-assassination theories, and many believe he killed Oswald to keep him from revealing a larger conspiracy. In his trial, Ruby denied the allegation and pleaded innocent on the grounds that his great grief over Kennedy's murder had caused him to suffer "psychomotor epilepsy" and shoot Oswald unconsciously. The jury didn't buy it and found him guilty and sentenced him to die.
In October 1966, the Texas Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the grounds the trial court judge improperly admitted certain prejudicial testimony and the fact that Ruby could not have received a fair trial in Dallas at the time. In January 1967, while awaiting a new trial to be held in Wichita Falls, Ruby died of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital.
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