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Awhile ago 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 one 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 was hooked on two kinds of speed. at the time of the shooting. >> he had been here at the police station during the past two days talking with news men and distributing his card. >> jack ruby was a police and med...

Very positive but that didnt last long. >> it was the number one best seller in the country. rush to judgment. it has a number of lereaders. >> we did not invision the scope of the criticism. >> the author has highly controversial things to say. please greet mr. mark lane. >> no matter how who the members were we werent going to be assured by the commission. >> were already having a disagreement here. >> i think i disagree almost totally with mark lane on several counts. i dont know where to beg...

>> jack ruby was a police and media groupie. ruby thought he was our friend. >> so im in this very same room friday night when we had the defendant up here. if some of you will recall, he asked a question from out here. no, standing right back here. i didnt know who he was. i thought he was a member of the press. and he told me as we walked out of here that he was a nightclub operator. >> rubys act was that of a vigilante. he wanted nothing more to be known -- people to flock to his nightclub to...

>> garrison said jack rubys unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> you take p and o and use a telephone dial, p gives you 7, o gives you 6. >> he just changed the digits around, added digits, added letters. >> and you reconstruct the numbers, and then you subtract 1,300, and that gives you rubys unlisted telephone number. >> mr. garrison, if the p.o. didnt exist until late 65, how could it then be jack rubys phone? >> well, thats a problem for you to ...

The assassin is assassinated in the police station. what in the hell is going on? >> just learned from city hall from an authoritative source, that police are working on the assumption that there, indeed, a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald. and that in some manner of speaking, oswalds murder was to shut him up. >> captain fritz has just told me that ruby said he did it, that it was his gun and that he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the president. >> in jack ruby...

Bring to the american people what he considered the truth about the death of their president, any means whatsoever was supposed to be used. it didnt matter much who got hurt in the process. >> i would sum it up by saying that any society which allows a man like jack kennedy to have the top of his head torn off and then protects the assassins and obstructs any inquiry and attempt to find the truth is not a great society. hey, ive got the trend analysis. hey. hi. hi. you guys going to the company ...

Service. >> there are three issues the commission had to grapple with. did oswald commit the physical act of the murder? and even if he did the physical act, did he have forces behind him? and then of course, whats rubys involvement in this? >> you had various branches of the investigation traveling, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. >> lets see. the time of day was about -- well were not very far, two hours from it. >> there were questions how woul...

>> were eager to see documents. i believed of the oswald assassination near ro theory. i never want to see a president keep things sequestered. >> this is not just history. its personal. youre a family member. what do you think about these? >> i think its fine to release the records, for public information. i think my father and rfk believe the warren commission report was accurate. larry schiller who worked on the book with me, knew marine oswald and knew jack ruby. and went back to russia with...

Report was accurate. larry schiller who worked on the book with me, knew marine oswald and knew jack ruby. very well and interviewed ruby and went back to russia with norman mailer and went through the kgb files with oswald. and hes convinced that oswald acted alone. he was a disgruntled, unhappy man. he felt he needed to have an identity. and the way he found out was to kill president kennedy. but larry who knows the situation very well, never thought there was a conspiracy around it. and i thi...

Assumption that there, indeed, a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald. and that in some manner of speaking, oswalds murder was to shut him up. >> captain fritz has just told me that ruby said he did it, that it was his gun and that he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the president. >> in jack rubys small mind, he thought he would be a hero. he killed the guy who killed the president. >> i commend what he did. i think he ought to win the congressional honor for it and ...