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>> he had to have been here at the police station during the past two days talking with news men and distributing his card and also making friends. >> jack ruby was a police and media groupie. he thought he was our friend. >> i was in the same room friday night when we had the defendant here. if some would recall, he asked a question standing right back here. i didnt know who he was. a thought he was a member of the press. he told me as we walked out that he was a night club operator. >> rubys a...

A public building, but today it was really under armed guard. >> we -- is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? vic robertson from city hall hall reports that jack ruby, the owner of the carousel, which is a bar in dallas, did the shooting. >> my statement will be very brief. oswald expired at 1:07 p.m. >> he died? >> he died at 1:07 p.m. we have arrested the man. the man will be charged with murder. >> who is he?

>> captain will fritz just told me that ruby has said that he did it, that it was his gun, and he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the president. >> in jack rubys small mind, he thought he was going to become a big, big hero. i mean, he killed the guy who killed the president. >> i commend what he did. i think he ought to win the congressional medal of honor for it. and a lot of other good american citizens think he did exactly the right thing in shooting down this communist...

Guilty of murder with malice and given the sentence of death by the electric chair. >> what do you think of this verdict? >> i believe that jack ruby was a paid killer to close the mouth of my son, lee harvey oswald. >> the question of whether ruby knew oswald before is one of the most important questions. ruby knew people in criminal activities, there was a lot of investigation of a potential conspiracy. ruby would have been one of the most unlikely and worst hit men that the mob could ever get...

>> the man -- the suspects name is jack rubenstein, i believe. he goes by the name of jack ruby. >> and here at associated press, a still picture of the moment, the splint second as the shot was fired. this is the man dallas police have identified as jack rubenstein, and this, of course, is lee harvey oswald. you see the gun in the hand of ruby and just about to be fired. >> i know my own feelings were, and i think they were widely shared by many if not most americans -- this cant be coincidenta...

Magic bullet. they argue that a bullet would have had to make a right turn and then a left turn in mid-air. the reality is that connally was not seated directly in front of kennedy. >> if you figure out the alignment of where the men set, as i did and the others who conducted the on side test, and had the automobile placed in the position, its perfectly plain, i submit to you, that the bullet that exited president kennedys throat, would have to strike the automobile, which it did not, or strike ...

Union station at 11:17 a.m. >> we know at 11:20, three minutes later, a block away, jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. he was there 5 to 15 seconds. >> what type of man is he? >> jack is a very emotional type person, and hes the type man that would probably give you the shirt off his back at one moment and then turn around and do something as nutty as this in the next. >> i never use the term angry, thats not in my vocabulary. >> he was known for a quick temper, and later, as it turned out, he ...

Window and see if this was a shot a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggestions ruby shot oswald to silence them. >> it was going to take more time than anticipated. it was maybe a two to three month operation to the conception that it will probably take six months. >> the hour glass at times was running out on them. >> do you think it was still one man? >> i think we better not get into that area, you know. the report will cover ...

>> with that many assassins, i dont know how kennedy made it to the autopsy table. >> garrison announced he discovered a code. >> he says jack rubys unlisted telephone number is in address books belonging to oswald. >> he just changed the digits around, added numbers. >> then you subtract 1300, and that gives you rubys unlisted telephone number. >> mr. garrison, if the p. o. didnt exist until late 65, how could it be jack rubys phone number? >> you obviously missed the point. >> when anyone expo...

JFK was shot dead during a presidential motorcade in Texas 59 years ago, but more than 15,000 documents concerning his death remain still locked away at the National Archives