Jack Ruby was the man who gunned down Lee Harvey Oswald in the precincts of Dallas Police Station. Why did he do this?

Jack Ruby in the process of gunning down Lee Harvey Oswald. What reasons led Jack Ruby to kill Oswald, knowing that it would mean certain life imprisonment or, perhaps, execution? How did Ruby gain access into the Dallas Police Station precincts? What was his relationship with the Dallas Police?

Ruby was the owner of a sleazy night club, The Carousel Club, in down-town Dallas. Was he just a patriot who felt sorry for Mrs Kennedy, as he claimed? Or, were there more sinister motives at work? Had he known Oswald before that fateful Sunday morning? Did Ruby have Mob connections – and were they linked with the fate of John Kennedy?

CARLOS MARCELLO Mafia chieftain in New Orleans, was illegally deported to Guatemala by Kennedy. In 1963, before the assassination, Marcello uttered his famous death threat about John Kennedy. Marcello ran a multi-billion-dollar crime empire out of New Orleans. David Ferrie and Oswald’s uncle worked for him. Marcello was involved with the CIA in the attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro. He was a rabid anti-Communist and right-winger. JOHNNY ROSSELLI Close subordinate of Sam Giancana. Rosselli operated out of Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He was a Mafia hit man who rose to the top. He told columnist Jack Anderson that “Ruby was one of our boys” who was “ordered to kill Oswald.” (Rosselli was the Mafia man assigned to the CIA operations to assassinate Fidel Castro. Shortly after he testified to the Church Committee, Rosselli was chopped into pieces and stuffed in an oil drum in the late summer of SANTO TRAFFICANTE, Jr. Mafia chieftain in Florida. Traffi- cante was reported to have made a death-bed confession to his Attorney, Frank Ragano. He said, “Marcello f….d up. We should not have killed Giovanni [ie., John, in Italian]. We should have killed Bobby instead.”

Why did Ruby visit the offices of H.L.Hunt [a Texas oil billionaire and supporter of extreme Far-right organisations – anti-communist, anti-Black] the day before Oswald’s assassination? H.L.Hunt

Why did it take the Warren Commission 6 months before interviewing Ruby? And why did it repeatedly refuse to move him to Washington despite Ruby’s frequent requests and fears of being assassinated in jail?

Earl Warren presents the Commission’s report to President Johnson. Ruby smuggled a letter out of the Dallas jail to a friend in which he wrote: “They alone planned the killing. By that I mean Johnson and others……” Government psychiatrists said this was proof of Ruby’s insanity – did Ruby go insane?