Boy talk about swallowing the Kool-Aid. Ruby had an extensive history with the Mafia going back to the 1930s when he was a part of the Goon Squad attacking union members and officers opposing the Mob takeover of various unions in Chicago. He was sent specifically by the Outfit to infiltrate the Police Department in Dallas.
In fact, during the 50s he was part of a Mob gun running scheme to arm anti-Castro rebels. He was also part of the Mob’s earlier arming of each side of the Revolution prior to Castro’s victory. It is inexcusable to keep spreading the LIE that he wasn’t part of the Mob. His immediate boss in Dallas was Joseph Campsi under the overall control of Marcello. Marcello hated RFK and JFK. He was heard by FBI informants promising to kill JFK. Killing RFK was not done because his power flowed from the President and such a deed would have increased ten fold the attack on the Mafia. As Marcello was heard to say “Killing RFK would be like chopping the tail off a mad dog, when the head would still bit you.”
Jack Ruby did not have a patriotic bone in his body and was an ordinary street thug who could have cared less about Jackie or any woman (other than his sister). Indeed, his business was based on the degradation and exploitation of women.
His behavior prior to shooting Oswald was a combination of a huge consumption of uppers earlier and the realization that he might have to get in even deeper when Oswald avoided being killed.
Any concern about a trial of LHO was limited to the fact that any trial would unravel the involvement of the Mob and the CIA in the anti-Castro plots.
I suppose you don’t even believe there is such a thing as the Mafia.
You nailed it. When the Chicago outfit told one of their soldiers to jump.....they JUMPED. Ruby was told to off Oswald. Period. No discussion required. As a lower level soldier in the Chicago Outfit directly under the murderous mid level nut job, ‘Mad’ Sam DeStefano, Ruby was well aware of the 1961 horrendous 3 day long torture session that killed one of the Outfit’s own, (They accused him of being a rat), juice collector’s, William ‘Action’ Jackson by a few of the Outfit’s killers. Ruby knew his fate if he did not follow orders. ALL of the Outfits soldiers knew. Whacking Oswald was much better than facing a fate like Jackson’s. (72 hours of hung on a meat hook, tortured with cattle prods, knives, ice picks, baseball bats and blow torches gotta hurt!)