Jack Ruby

Biography

Jack Leon Ruby was a notorious American nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Born in Chicago in 1911, Ruby operated nightclubs in Texas before shooting Oswald in the Dallas Police Headquarters basement. Convicted of murder and sentenced to death, Ruby's conviction was later overturned, and he died of a pulmonary embolism in prison in 1967.