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Jack Ruby
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American nightclub operator who killed American presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
OverviewAI-generated
Jack Ruby, born Jacob Leon Rubenstein in Chicago, was an American businessperson who served in World War II. He was convicted of murder and died of lung cancer at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1967. His given names included Jacob, Leon, and Jack, and he spoke English.
Ruby is also associated with a musical group of the same name, which has been tagged with genres such as no wave, proto-punk, Garage Punk, dub, and jungle. Additionally, an author named Jack Ruby is credited with the work *Diy Patio Building*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Diy Patio Building
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; April 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was an American nightclub owner and alleged associate of the Chicago Outfit who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald was accused of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Dallas jury found Ruby guilty of murdering Oswald and sentenced him to death. Ruby's conviction was later…
Known for
- JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass — Self (archive footage)2021
- Killing John F. Kennedy — Self (archive footage)2020
- Apocalypse: War of Worlds (1945-1991) — Self (archive footage)2019
- Bobby Kennedy for President — Self (archive footage)2018
- Killing Jimmy Hoffa — Self (archive footage)2014
- The Sixties — Self (archive footage)2014
- JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide — Self (archive footage)2013
- Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live — Self (archive footage)2013
- Killing Oswald — Self (archive footage)2013
- Mafia's Greatest Hits — Self (archive footage)2012
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,641
- Total plays
- 34,321
Tags
There is more than one artist with this name: 1. Jack Ruby was a short-lived proto-No Wave band from New York featuring George Scott of the James Chance & the Contortions fame. “Seven years ago, a guy named Gary Reese wrote me and said he was friends with the late Contortions bass player George Scott, and that he could probably help me out with some information on the mythic band Jack Ruby. Up until that point, nobody knew of any surviving recordings by this unit. <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein
· 1982 · cited 18,692x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,246x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,454x
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Key facts
- Born
- Jacob Rubenstein , c. ( 1911-03-25 ) March 25, 1911, Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
- Died
- January 3, 1967 (1967-01-03) (aged 55), Dallas , Texas, U.S.
- Burial place
- Westlawn Cemetery , Norridge, Illinois
- Known for
- Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald
- Criminal charge
- Murder with malice
- Occupation
- Nightclub owner
- Criminal status
- Conviction overturned on appeal, died before retrial
- Criminal penalty
- Death (overturned)
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Encyclopedic overview
Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein; c. March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was an American nightclub owner. He killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. Kennedy.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1911, Ruby operated nightclubs in Texas. On November 24, 1963, two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Ruby shot and mortally wounded Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters and was immediately arrested. The shooting happened on live television. Ruby was convicted and sentenced to death. The conviction was overturned on appeal, and he was granted a new trial, but Ruby fell ill, was diagnosed with cancer, and died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jack Ruby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.