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JACK RUBY

RUBY’S REVENGE

In the aftermath of Oswald’s death, Jack Ruby claimed, “I didn’t want to be a hero. I did it for Jacqueline Kennedy” (JFK’s wife). Found guilty in 1964, he was sentenced to death, but this was overturned and Ruby would die, in 1967, of a pulmonary embolism (due to lung cancer) before his retrial.

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