Exhibit features man who shot Kennedy's killer

cnn ^ | 11-20-04

[LouAvul]

DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- He might have more instant recognition than the man who killed President Kennedy 41 years ago.

After all, strip club owner Jack Ruby was caught on live TV and in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph firing the shot that killed presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Kennedy was gunned down in a Dallas parade.

Yet there is much the public doesn't know about Ruby, and in an effort to set the record straight on his life, crime and trial, a new exhibit at the Sixth Floor Museum opened last week.

"Jack Ruby: Voices from History" debuts as the nation prepares to mark the anniversary Monday of Kennedy's assassination.

The temporary exhibit, separate from the permanent exhibit on Kennedy's assassination, is expected to run at least six months, organizers said. It's a patchwork of photos, newspaper pages, artifacts and quotes from witnesses, key players, Ruby's acquaintances and Ruby himself.

"Every time we talk to people about Jack Ruby, we find that not many people know much about him," said museum curator Gary Mack.

[OldFriend]

And I suspect since many people didn't know Jack Ruby this will be an opportunity to create things about Jack Ruby.

[digger48]

Don't you just love how the left continues to live in the past. THEIR version of the past.

Oswald saved Kennedy from defeat in '64, and helped create the myth of "Camelot"

[sharktrager]

He might have more instant recognition than the man who killed President Kennedy 41 years ago.

This statement is asinine. There is no way Ruby is more recognizable than Oswald.