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Jack Ruby: Media

A nightclub owner in Dallas, Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of John F. Kennedy, on live TV.

Videos

Listen as Dan Rather reports on the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963
Dan Rather reporting on the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on November...
Video: National Archives and Records Administation/Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org)

Images

Jack Ruby
On November 24, 1963, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald,...
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Cover of Esquire magazine's May 1967 issue, designed by George Lois, photography...
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