One of the very first pictures I saw on FR was the Oswald “band” picture
with guitar 🎸 keyboards 🎹 and Oswald singing
Seems like 3 lifetimes ago
I saw it live on TV that day and Ruby died in prison of a so-called heart attack. Mafia procedure kill the killer, my 2 cents.
On Nov 24 1963, Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas police station.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jack-ruby-kills-lee-harvey-oswald
Ruby did his part when called upon.
Nah, nothing to see here...
Bkmk
JFK was killed on a Friday, so on the weekend we were glued to the television networks’ nonstop coverage. So it was that on Sunday morning (west coast) we watched Ruby murder Oswald on live TV.
I vividly remember watching this live, quite a shock moment.
FUN FACT: Jack Ruby’s jailhouse shrink was the MK-Ultra Doctor, Louis Jolly West.
If I remember correctly it was a Sunday afternoon. My mom had taken me somewhere and we came home and they were showing it on TV.
A few years later, when I was about to turn six, Robert Kennedy was shot. That I did remember. One of my first memories. It seemed the TV showed the shot below for hours. Three months later, I started first grade.
The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone. Interesting book.
To shut him up?
How did Ruby get through teh crowd? Why did he wind up dead?
I remember seeing that happen as a little child, I was 5 going on 6. I don’t remember being particularly shocked by it, but I might have run out of shock at that point.
My mother hated JFK with the burning passion of a thousand suns. Every Sunday she would go to Mass and then come home and rail about Kennedy for the rest of the day. Yet when he was shot she cried and cried, and she never cried about anything. I was SO confused. I said “But Mom, you hate him.” and she said “But he’s our President!”
I never will forget that moment. I have two younger brothers who never remembered a bit of it, but I realized then that the world was much larger and far more complex than I knew.
And then Televsion was ruined for about a week. Which was also shocking to me. So when I saw Lee Oswald get gunned down on TV I honestly was just not that surprised, or frightened, but even at that point I feel like I perceived a fix was in, although I would not have put it that way, obviously. But it just all seemed a tad too convenient.