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>> 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 coincidental. th...

And distributing his card, also making friends. >> 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...

Realized at their initial meeting they had to do an independent investigation. they didnt want to be a stamp for the fbi or the secret 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 t...

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 medal of honor for it. and a lot of other good american citizens think he did exactly the right thing in shoot do you thin...

>> 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 ...

>> dallas city hall is normally a public building, but today it was really under armed guard. >> the carousel shot. >> we -- is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? >> as far as i know. i just got it from vic robertson. >> vic robertson from city hall hall reports that jack ruby, the 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...

>> 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 or was in cahoots to kill him is one of the most important questions. because ruby knew people in criminal activities, there was a lot of investigation about a potential conspiracy. >> ruby would have been one of the most unlikely and worst hit men that the mob could ever get. >> on november the 24th, 1963, lee harvey oswald is supposed to have been tr...

With that many asassins i dont know how kennedy made to the autopsy table. >> garrison announced he discovered a code. garrison says jack rubys unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> you take the p and o and use the telephone dial p gives you seven o gives you six. >> he just changed the digits around, added digits, added letters. >> you reconstruct the numbers and then you subtract 1300 and that gives you rubys unlisted telephone number. >> mr. garri...

Interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. >> lets see. the time of day was about -- were not very far but two hours from it. >> there were questions, how would they deal with the different stories about the shooters from the grassy knoll and shooters from different directions? the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions. there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. >> lyndon johnson wants to report out so it doesnt interfere with th...

Initially was very positive, but that didnt last very long. >> this book is the number one best seller on the nonfiction list in the country, "rush to judgment" by mark lane. its gained a vast number of readers in the recent ground as well of skepticism about the findings of the warren report. >> we did not envision the breadth and the scope of the criticism. >> the author has some highly provocative and controversial things to say, so please greet mr. mark lane. >> no matter how illustrious the...