Jack Ruby was innocent. Yeah, I know he said, “Hey, Oswald!” and then Blam! and Oswald was all “Oh fucking shit that hurts!” [paraphrased] and 80 million people saw it on TV, but . . . Ruby wasn’t guilty. For real. This takes some explaining.
--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: March 14, 1964--
Who killed John F. Kennedy? According to Lee Harvey Oswald, not him. “I’m just a patsy!” he proclaimed. And we should believe Oswald, because in the history of murder no killer ever proclaimed they didn’t do it. Oh, wait.
There are allegations the mob had JFK killed because he hadn’t done anything about Cuba going commie, which cost the mob a shit-ton of money. And his little brother was Attorney General and was going after the mob, so they (figuratively) pulled RFK’s teeth by snuffing his president brother. Jack Ruby was tied to the mob, and allegedly Ruby killed Oswald on the orders of said mob to silence said patsy.
Live TV is an awfully public way of silencing someone though.
What’s a more likely motivation is what Ruby proclaimed: he was a huge fan of JFK. Fucking adored the guy. And he was overwhelmingly pissed at the murder and saw an opportunity for revenge and so he shot Oswald. It was a single shot from a .38 revolver in the guts that killed him almost by luck because it tore through his aorta. Or maybe it was fucking space aliens. I don’t know.
Ruby shot Oswald, but he was still not guilty, legally speaking. On March 14, 1964, Jack Ruby was convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and sentenced to death via that uncomfortable chair that plugs into the wall. But he never got electrococksuckered. Rather, in the final appeal before the execution was carried out, the sentence was overturned, because it was decided the judge in his original trial was a total knob and had committed numerous legal errors. And so, a new trial was ordered.
However, before the new trial, Jack Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism caused by his lung cancer. At the time, he was in a legal limbo where his previous conviction was vacated, and he hadn’t yet been convicted in the newly ordered trial. And so, technically speaking, he was innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The second time, I mean.
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While it is almost a certainty that the one bullet from JHO's gun to hit JFK in the neck area would've probably resulted in JFK's eventual death, it is also a certainty that the immediately fatal bullet that entered the back of JFK's head and exited his right frontal lobe was a 5.56mm round accidentally discharged from the AR-15 of SSA George Hickey who was turning to fire upon JHO from his position in the middle seat of the USSS follow car.
Come November, we'd love to read some Sweary History about that kerfuffle and cover-up.
Have you ever read James Ellroy's "American Tabloid”? I read it many years ago, but from what I remember it wasn’t the Cubans, the Mafia, or the KGB that had JFK assassinated — it was ALL of them, working independently but all towards the same end.
It’s a great read.