Jack Ruby
Where each worldview places it
"A leading errand boy and operative for Meyer Lansky" who silenced Oswald. He has been portrayed as a Mafia man "to divert attention from his real employer - Lansky"[1].
- Aliases
- Jack RubensteinJack Rubinstein
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- 1963 (kills Oswald)[2]
- Key events
- 1963: meets E. Howard Hunt's CIA group in Dallas the day before the assassination, Hunt being "the paymaster for a top secret operation"[3]
- 1963: shoots Oswald at point-blank range[4]
- later: asks to testify in Washington, Earl Warren refuses, and he dies "conveniently" in jail[3]
- Author's claims · 4
- 01He worked for Al Capone and spent most of his life in the organised crime syndicate; through Lansky he was connected with the CIA, Israel and the anti-Castro groups, and played a part in plots against Castro[1].
- 02He was an associate of Mickey Cohen[5].
- 03He told Dorothy Kilgallen something that "would blow the Kennedy case sky high"; one woman said she saw him boarding a plane for Israel after he was supposed to have died[6].
- 04Louis Jolyon West was the psychiatrist the authorities chose to "analyse" him[7].