The hit man and the mobster: Jack Ruby and Santos Trafficante
Arnaldo M. Fernandez
August 31, 2014
Why did Jack Ruby kill Lee Oswald?
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Investigative theater in Chicago on August 9
Jefferson Morley
August 4, 2014
“The thing about the assassination I’d most like to dispel is people simply accepting the idea that this is a mystery that can never be known. I believe a great deal of it can in fact be known — that it is not unfathomable,” he said.
via Arts Center of Oak Park show investigates killing of JFK | Oak Leaves.
Top 5 JFK Facts stories in June
Jefferson Morley
July 1, 2014
The best-read JFK Facts stories in the month of June were: …
Top 5 JFK Facts stories
Jefferson Morley
June 7, 2014
The very interesting story of U.S. Air Force officer Sven Christensen and his reaction to the events of November 1963 topped the best-read stories list this week. Thanks to helpful readers, I am now in touch with Jeff Christensen and hope to learn more. …
JFK Facts Top 5 for the month of May
Jefferson Morley
May 30, 2014
Usually, we recap the Top 5 JFK stories of the week on Friday, but as the end of the month nears, it’s time to take a look at the bigger picture: What are the best-read JFK stories in May?
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Top 5 JFK stories of the week
Jefferson Morley
May 16, 2014
This week brought a burst of interest in the tagged posts on George Hickey, the late Secret Service Man who was falsely accused of firing the fatal shot that killed President Kennedy. I was glad to see people are getting the true story.
The bogus “Secret Service Man Did It” conspiracy meme (it doesn’t deserve to be called a theory) has persisted since the publication of a foolish book called Mortal Error in the 1980s. The meme was revived for the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination by REELZ Channel and an Australian cop who should know better. And Malcolm Gladwell should definitely know better.
JFK Facts: setting the record straight since 2013.
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JFK Facts Top 5: Comments and recommendations
Jefferson Morley
April 4, 2014
While the site was under construction, readers flocked to Comment Editor Peter Voskamp’s directive to the commenting crowd, and perennially popular pages about Gail Raven’s memories of her friend Jack Ruby, about secret CIA files and about the best JFK websites.
These were the most-read stories from March 27 to April 3: …
JFK Facts Top 5: Stories about evidence find favor
Jefferson Morley
March 14, 2014
The story of how the U.S. Attorney in Washington DC made a small but significant change to the government’s accounting of the whereabouts of undercover CIA officer George Joannides in 1963 was the most viewed JFK Facts story for the week of March 6-13.
That story, like popular stories about Douglas Horne’s take on the medical evidence and sound engineer Ed Primeau’s work on the Air Force One tapes, is based on granular examination of facts and their pattern.
It seems that readers want evidence, not theories.
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JFK Facts Top 5: Readers flock to unanswered NSA questions
Jefferson Morley
March 7, 2014
Last week’s post about the possibility of NSA targeting JFK Web sites for “cognitive infiltration”–and the NSA’s refusal to respond to questioning–was the most popular story of the week, followed closely by Rick Bauer’s recollections of his friend David Ferrie.
Gail Raven’s ever-popular recollections about her friend Jack Ruby fell to third place.
And the winners are:
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Top 5 most popular JFK Facts stories in January
Jefferson Morley
January 31, 2014
Gail Raven’s timeless story about her admiring friend Jack Ruby stays in it perennial spot at #1, followed by a discussion of former White House information czar Cass Sunstein and the state of the case.
1) Ex-flame says Jack Ruby ‘had no choice’ but to kill Oswald (March 21, 2013)
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Jan. 3, 1967: Jack Ruby, killer of JFK’s assassin, dies just weeks before second trial
Jefferson Morley
January 3, 2014
The killer of JFK’s assassin died just weeks before he could speak out in a second trial (from Yahoo News UK.)
After killing Lee Harvey Oswald on national television, Ruby, the owner of a Dallas nightclub, usually denied that he was part of any conspiracy. On other occasions he intimated that he might have a different story. In June 1964, he asked Chief Justice Earl Warren to bring him to Washington to testify; Warren refused.
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Nov. 24, 1963: Jack Ruby kills Oswald. Why?
Jefferson Morley
November 24, 2013
In an exclusive interview with JFK Facts earlier this year, one of Ruby’s friends–a dancer who worked in his nightclub in 1963 and knew the man well, offered this informed explanation.
A new play about Jack Ruby to open off-Broadway
Jefferson Morley
November 7, 2013
Written by Ronnie Cohen and Jane Beale, “Witnessed by the World” opens on Thursday November 7 at the 59E59 Theaters in New York.
The producer’s describe it as a 90-minute thriller about a journalist writing a screenplay about Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who murdered accused assassin Lee Oswald on national TV. …
The 5 most popular pages on JFK Facts
Jefferson Morley
October 22, 2013
The five most viewed pages on JFK Facts over the past year represent a cross-section of what this site is about: timely news, reliable sources, and authoritative analysis.
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Parsing Nixon and Ruby: a progress report
Jefferson Morley
July 2, 2013
I’ve gotten some useful comment on my question, “Did Richard Nixon know Jack Ruby?”
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