Editing Jack Ruby (section)

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|Image = Jack Ruby 1963 Mugshot Extracted (cropped).jpg
|fullname = Jacob Leon Rubenstein|crimes = Narcotics<br>Prostitution<br>[[Murder]]<br>[[Stalking]]<br>Truancy<br>Disturbing the Peace<br>[[Assault]]|type of villain = Vigilante|origin = Chicago, Illinois, United States|occupation = Nightclub owner<br>Mafia Member|goals = Avenge JFK by killing [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] (Succeeded)<br> Own a nightclub in Dallas (Succeeded, but backfired) |alias = Jack Ruby<br>JFK's Avenger}}{{Quote|Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.|Jack Ruby}}
'''Jack Leon Ruby''' (March 25<sup>th</sup>, 1911 - January 3<sup>rd</sup>, 1967) was a Texan nightclub owner with ties to [[organized crime]] and the [[American Mafia]]. On November 24<sup>th</sup>, 1963, he shot and mortally wounded [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] in a public location two days after Oswald was arrested and charged with the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination of John F. Kennedy]]. Ruby was swiftly convicted and initially sentenced to death, but he managed to get this verdict overturned due to his understandable motive, that of vigilante justice, and his re–trial for a lesser sentence was put on low–priority queue. But before he could have a re-trial, he died of lung cancer in Parkland Hospital on January 3<sup>rd</sup>, 1967.

It has been proposed by many conspiracy theorists that Jack Ruby's murder of Oswald was part of a conspiracy surrounding Kennedy`s assassination and was done in order to stop him from revealing who the other and/or true assassin(s) were (Jack Ruby himself claimed the assassination was a conspiracy!). Even assuming his motives for killing Oswald were based in simple vigilantism, there is still a strong possibility that Ruby's reckless actions had the same effect of causing information that would have revealed involvement of others in JFK's death to become unknown.