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>> 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 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 24th, 1963, lee harvey ...

Media groupie. ruby thought he was our friend. >> so im in this very same room friday night when we had the defendant up here. 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 shake the hand of the man who kil...

>> ruby killed oswald but there was no conspiracy. the two men oswald and raub bee never met. or did they? lets go back half a lifetime into the geraldo vault. >> oswald was shot in the stomach before his guards knew what was happening. watch the unbelievable historic video. oswald and the guards come out on the ramp. a radio reporter asks a question, flash bulbs pop the assassin dashes in and fire. the police through themselves on the killer later identified as jack ruby. oswalds killer jack ru...

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 groundswell 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. please greet mr. mark lane. [ applause ] >> no matter how illustrious the members were, we were not ...

Minutes later, a block away, jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evidence showed that he was down there anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds. 5 to 15 seconds. if this is a hired assassin who is supposed to have some advanced information, he is the worlds best gunman. >> what type of man is he? >> jack is a very emotional-type person. and as i was saying awhile ago, hes the type man that probably would give you the shirt off his back at one moment and then turn around and do something as nutty as th...

0 disarray. jim angle here in the bureau with why the presidents most recent offer to fix the program just makes things much worse. but we begin with chief white house correspondent ed henry on the latest efforts by the president to stop the bleeding from obama care. good evening, ed. >> good evening, bret. you remember last week the president vowed to fix his credibility with the american people. he starts tonight on a conference call with organizing for action to try and rally his political ba...

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To him. >> well never know what oswald was going to say. was he just a lone nut case? >> a trial might have answered questions of conspiracy, but with oswald dead, investigators focused on ruby. >> how was he able to get that close to the most wanted man in the world. >> because all the cops in dallas liked him because he gave them free stuff including hookers. >> the actions by ruby in shootishoot ing oswald were not spontaneous in that he probably had assistance. >> he examined rubys activitie...

>> j. edgar hoover said back in 69 that they had had regular contact with jack ruby. >> david kaiser is a historian and author of "the road to dallas." >> he couldnt make the payoff. he was looking for help wherever he could get it. >> jack ruby made calls to individuals associated with organized crime. >> the report about rubys sister, ruby got a phone call right at this time and went in the other room and threw up. maybe he got a phone call that said, ruby, we need you to do something for us. ...

Ruby knew the head of the mafia in dallas. >> oswald had grown up in new orleans. his uncle was a member of the marcello organization. thats the reason the mafia case is probably the strongest of any of them. the stronger of any of them. >> next, how a 3-d animation along with the zapruder film places a second gunman in dealey plaza. lk and erasers. but chan. l my students have the brand new surface. it has the new windows and comes with office, has a real keyboard, so they can do real work. t...