Tag Archive for Jack Ruby

Ex-flame says Jack Ruby ‘had no choice’ but to kill Oswald

March 21, 2013 Assassination, Experts, News, Popular 39 comments

The lovely “Gail Raven,” an exotic dancer in the southwestern United States in the 1960s, became friends with Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Who says new JFK witnesses can’t be found?

After JFK Facts recounted Jack Ruby’s pursuit of an exotic dancer named Gail Raven in January 1963, I received a message from a woman who identified herself as Raven’s daughter. She told me that her mother was still alive, and she confirmed that her mother and Jack Ruby were close. I asked her if her mother would share her memories of the man who killed accused assassin Lee H. Oswald. She said yes.
In 1963 Gail Raven was the stage name of a precociously mature 20-year-old woman who danced on the national nightclub circuit that included Ruby’s Carousel Club in Dallas. Ruby (born Jack Rubenstein) was a Chicago tough guy who took a shine to her and they became friends.
Now close to 70 years old, Gail Raven is living in the southern United States. I have confirmed her real name but have agreed not to publish it here to protect her privacy. Read more

Jan. 28, 1963: Jack Ruby pursues an exotic dancer

January 28, 2013 Assassination, In 1963 6 comments

The business card of the man who silenced Lee Harvey Oswald.

On this day in 1963, Jack Ruby, owner of the Carousel Club in Dallas, returns to Dallas from Wichita, Kansas, where he visited the T-Bone Club to see Gail Raven, an exotic dancer. Read more

Fact Check: Were Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s comments about JFK evidence accurate?

January 15, 2013 Assassination, News, Question 23 comments

RFK Jr.’s claims

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments that his father did not believe that a “lone-gunman” killed his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, have now been covered by all four television networks (CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC), and gone viral on the internet. The remarks marked the first time a Kennedy family member has publicly questioned the official theory that JFK was killed by a lone gunman.

Were RFK Jr.’s remarks factually accurate?  Read more

Dec 16 1963: Behind closed doors, the Warren Commission is baffled

December 17, 2012 Aftermath, From the Files, In 1963 One comment

With the FBI’s report on Kennedy’s assassination, the Commission undertook to select staffers and figure out how to approach its work.

Chief Justice Warren complained about the leaks of the FBI report:  ”I have read that report two or three times and I have not seen anything in there that has not been in the press.”

The Commissioners then held a wide-ranging discussion that touched upon:

–the medical evidence. (John J. McCloy: “This bullet business leaves me confused”);

–Marina Oswald and whether she might flee to Mexico,

–the ease of Oswald getting a wife out of the Soviet Union and obtaining a passport in New Orleans,

–Jack Ruby: (Hale Boggs: “One of the keys to this whole thing is Ruby.”)

Senator Richard Russell summed things up thusly: “There’s nothing absolutely normal about any phase of it.”

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Nov 24 1963: Ruby kills Oswald, and Washington scrambles to quell suspicion

November 24, 2012 Aftermath, In 1963 No comments

On the Sunday morning following the assassination, Kennedy’s body lay in state at the Capitol rotunda, for mourning visitors to see.

Meanwhile in Dallas, a handcuffed Lee Harvey Oswald was led into the basement of the Dallas city jail for transfer to the county jail. Suddenly, on live national television, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd of reporters and fired one fatal gunshot into Oswald’s abdomen.

This stunning deed shocked and baffled the nation–and eliminated a key witness to the events that led to JFK’s murder. Not known for his sense of humor, FBI Director Hoover informed the White House in a memo that began: “There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead.”
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