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3/14/64 Dallas - Jack Ruby ... was condemned to death today in a jury's swift verdict of murder with malice. It took the panel of four women and eight men only two hours and 19 minutes to order the maximum penalty against Ruby ... AP, 5:00 p.m. CST 3/14/64 Dallas - The brother of Jack Ruby vowed today to appeal the ... decision sentencing [Ruby] to death ... "Jack's a sick man - a sick man," said Earl [Ruby]. "He needs treatment. He shouldn't be in this jail." Earl said his brother asked him on Tuesday when the trial was going to start. "The trial had been going on for three weeks," said Earl. "He's a sick man I tell you." AP, 7:13 p.m. EST 3/14/64 Dallas - Defense lawyers said Jack Ruby, assessed the death penalty earlier in the day, asked them tonight: "Can you arrange for me, through President Johnston, to go to Washington and take a lie detector test so I can prove I didn't kill ... Oswald?" AP, 9:35 p.m. CST 3/15/64 Dallas - ... His [Ruby’s] lawyers meanwhile expressed fears for his life. Chief defense counsel Melvin Belli said: "Ruby is worried, and so am I, that they may slip someone into his cell -- another prisoner -- with a shiv [knife] in order to prevent our appeal. Then they would make it appear as a suicide and this vicious city would have him off their hands." … AP, 12:43pcs 3/16/64 Dallas - … Police Sgt. P. T. Dean, who was responsible for security in the basement while Oswald was being transferred to the County Jail, said Ruby told him later that "he had come in an entrance on the north side of Main Street as a car drove out." Someone had shouted to Ruby but he kept his head down and kept walking, Sergeant Dean said. He quoted Ruby as telling him that he knew he could always pretend to be a reporter. Sergeant Dean said he had been asked by his superior to report on the break in security. But he did not testify on why there was no guard at the jail entrance at the moment Ruby walked into the basement. New York Times, Jack Langguth 3  /17/64 Dallas -- District Attorney Henry Wade told yesterday how prosecutors made the "big decision " of the Jack Ruby murder trial.
The decision: They would not call witnesses who swore they saw Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald together before a sniper assassinated President Kennedy here. ... ... Wade said FBI agents and other investigators provided him with a list of witnesses who insisted they had seen Ruby and Oswald together at various times. The District Attorney said he decided not to call these witnesses because he had doubts about the accuracy of their statements. "I knew that three of them had failed lie detector tests," Wade said. "We knew testimony from these witnesses could have had a big impact on the jury, one way or another. But I felt then -- and still do -- that there has been no proof Ruby and Oswald knew each other." … AP, 611acs [See Ruby, 3/21/64, National Guardian] 3/21/64 The Commission is also expected to inquire into speculation that Ruby and Oswald were acquainted - a persistent rumor in Dallas, even among some police officials, despite denials by District Attorney Henry Wade [See Ruby, 3/17/64, AP 611 acs] and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A New York Times reporter noted 3/15: "Some law enforcement officials in Dallas continue to believe that a connection was possible, but if so that it was personal and did not necessarily involve the assassination." National Guardian 4/4/64 In Dallas, [Thomas] Buchanan looked into the theory that Ruby might have been the assassin on the bridge. [Buchanan has theorized that the assassination involved a plot by several persons.] In any case Ruby was alone in the Dallas Morning News building just before the crime, and was also there a few minutes after it, and no one saw him in the interim. [Buchanan had already noted that it is a 2½-minute run from the bridge to the newspaper office.] Neither Ruby's lawyer nor prosecutor Wade probed at the trial into whether or not Ruby showed signs of a recent physical effort when the newspaper's employees returned to the building on the assassination day. National Guardian 4/6/64 ... And Ruby's act of vengeance stirred the deepest suspicion of all; a Louis Harris poll showed that fully 40 per cent of the U.S. public still believes there was some link between the two … Newsweek, p 22-24, JFK's Murder: Sowers of Doubt. [An account of various doubts and theories to date about the officials version of the assassination]. 4/17/64 Dallas - … After visiting Ruby today in his jail cell, Tonahill told a newsman: "Jack is eager to appear before the Commission, either in Dallas or Washington …” AP, 3:59 p.m. CST 4/24/64 Dallas -- Riot in county jail, which Sheriff Bill Decker attributed to over-crowding. ... The jail is the same which houses convicted slayer Jack Ruby, but Ruby was not on the same floor as the riots. The sheriff said "Jack's rest was not disturbed." … AP 120acs 4/25/64 Dallas, [4/24] - At every meeting at the county jail, Ruby ... passes notes to his sister asking that she arrange a meeting for him with the Federal commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren. His legal counsel believes, however, that Ruby is so unstable that he could not give a useful statement to the Commission … [General tenor of story is that "after five months of isolated confinement, Ruby shows signs of severe delusions, according to persons who see him daily."] New York Times, Jack Langguth 4/25/64 Dallas, [4/24] - … Ruby's sister, Mrs. Eva Grant, said that he constantly expressed the fear that an attempt might be made on her life. [General tenor of story is that "after five months of isolated confinement, Ruby shows signs of severe delusions, according to persons who see him daily."] New York Times, Jack Langguth 4/25/64 Dallas. [4/24] - Sheriff Bill Decker announced after the trial that Ruby would be transferred to a cell with other prisoners. The sheriff said that company might lift Ruby's spirits. But members of his family protested to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Ruby's life could be endangered by the move. As a result, Ruby remains in separate quarters. New York Times, Jack Langguth 4/26/64 Dallas -- Condemned slayer sack Ruby took advantage of his jailer's momentary absence early today to ram his head into the wall of his cell in what Sheriff Bill Decker called "a deliberate act." "Apparently he suffered only a knot on his head,” the sheriff said. … AP 4/29/64 Dallas - Judge Joe B. Brown overruled today Jack Ruby's motion for a new trial. Defense lawyers immediately gave notice of appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. … Twice today, as he was led from the courtroom back to jail, he whispered to his brother and sisters: "Goodbye, I'm not coming back." His kin could not explain the statements. AP, 5:17 p.m. CST 4/29/64 Dallas - ... The hearing today was confined to the original defense motion for a new trial. A second motion filed late yesterday was not admitted for consideration. … Tonahill and Phil Burleson called three witnesses they said would "prove with concrete evidence" that Dallas police officer P. T. Dean gave false testimony at the month-long trial. As Brown declined to hear the witnesses, Tonahill rose to his feet, extended his arms, and said: "For God's sake, do your duty, Judge, and hear this testimony" The state said such testimony was not set out in the motion for a new trial, and thus was not material to the hearing. … Tonahill tried to call Ray Hall, an FBI agent, and officer Dean himself to the stand, but was not allowed to. He said Hall would impeach Dean's testimony. AP, 5:17 p.m. CST [See Ruby, 3/7/64] 5/64 … it is interesting to recall the story of Jim Lehrer in the Dallas Times Herald of 12/20[63?] that Ruby had made five reservations on a plane leaving for Mexico. [Were tickets found in apartment?] Buchanan [Putnam, 1964, Who Killed Kennedy, p. 135/2: 5/64 … it is interesting to recall the story of Jim Lehrer in the Dallas Times Herald of 12/20[63] that Ruby had made five reservations on a plane leaving for Mexico. Buchanan [Putnam] p. 135/2 [See Ruby, 10/7/64, London Evening Standard] 5/9/64 Guardian account of story in the 5/17/64, issue of the National Enquirer [which the Guardian carefully labels "a weekly with sensationalist leanings"], to the effect that Ruby and Oswald were said to be suspects when General Walker was shot at; Justice Department wrote to Chief Jesse Curry asking that they not be arrested, for 'reasons of state', making the request on behalf of the CIA. 'Because the CIA was deeply involved with Ruby - and probably Oswald, too. CIA agents had been using Ruby to recruit men in the Dallas area to serve as commandos against Castro's government in Cuba. And they didn't dare let Ruby be arrested and chance such information getting out. There were also indications that Oswald himself might have been working ... as a double agent for both the Communists and the CIA.' [Quotations from National Enquirer.] National Guardian [CE 837, Hearings, XVII, p. 837] 5/28/64 Dallas -- Jack Ruby ... went berserk in his Dallas County jail cell today and was subdued by a jailer, Sheriff Bill Decker said. The sheriff said Ruby, 53, broke his eye glasses, grabbed a cuspidor and threw it at a light bulb, breaking the light fixture ... ... It was the second incident in which Ruby has become unruly in the county jail cell. The first incident was a few weeks ago when Ruby butted his head against the cell wall and superficially injured himself. … AP 410pcs 6/2/64 Dallas – A 6/19 show-cause hearing in open court has been scheduled to determine whether Jack Ruby gets a sanity trial. Meanwhile the condemned slayer is receiving psychiatric treatment in his jail cell. ... "If he [Ruby] is not in better health by 6/19, then a sanity trial will start 7/6," Brown said. AP, 506acs; AP 6/3/64 Dallas - ... Jack Ruby has refused to take pills prescribed by psychiatrists to begin treatment for his mental condition, a source close to his family revealed today. "Jack won't take his medicine," this source told the Dallas Times Herald. "His family is very upset because he tells them someone is trying to poison him with the pills." Since [Ruby banged his head against a jail cell wall in April] jailers have caught [him] stripping cloth from his jail uniform in an apparent attempt to fashion a crude noose. AP 11:18 a.m. CST 6/4/64 Dallas - Jack Ruby is taking some of the medicine prescribed by his psychiatrists, Dallas County Medical authorities said today. AP, 4:23 p.m. CST 6/8/64 Dallas - Chief Justice Earl Warren spent more than three hours yesterday with condemned slayer Jack Ruby in the Dallas County Jail. … It is believed that Warren's visit with Ruby was unprecedented in that no chief justice ever before had visited a jail to take testimony from a prisoner. … [Defense lawyer Joe] Tonahill said Ruby and Warren shook hands at the beginning and at the end of the meeting and he said Ruby "responded to the questions." However, the lawyer said Ruby didn't answer intelligently. He said he was "wild-eyed." "I wasn't at all pleased with how Jack performed," Tonahill said. San Francisco Chronicle, AP [See Ruby, 6/26-8/64] 6/11/64 Dallas -- Jack Ruby's new chief counsel says he plans to withdraw a request for a sanity hearing to order to concentrate on appeals for a new trial. Clayton Fowler, who took over as Ruby's fifth head lawyer this week, said yesterday he decided on the change in strategy because a sanity hearing now would be premature. … AP, 513acs 6/13/64 It is known that 10 persons have signed sworn depositions to the Commission that they knew Oswald and Ruby to have been acquainted. The Commission has said, however, that lie detector tests have proven the witnesses unreliable. Oddly, no action has been contemplated against the 10 whose sworn testimony would certainly merit such action if, indeed, they were lying. Among the 10, according to the Herald Tribune, "were a Dallas attorney and a waitress who claimed she had once served Oswald and Ruby as they sat together in a restaurant. …" National Guardian [See Ruby, 8/29/84] 6/16/64 Dallas - Judge Joe B. Brown today granted a request by Jack Ruby's defense lawyers to indefinitely postpone a motion for a sanity hearing for Ruby. AP 6/19/64 Dallas - Attorneys for Jack Ruby said today they will seek immediate local hospitalization for treatment of his mental condition following a sudden examination by an Oklahoma psychiatrist. … The announcement by Fowler came after Dr. Louis Jolyon West flew to Dallas today under what County Jail attendants said were emergency circumstances to examine Ruby in his ... cell. … The Dallas Times Herald said one source indicated Ruby's mental condition has deteriorated since the 6/7 visit of Chief Justice Earl Warren … … "I can't say what the purpose of Dr. West's visit is until after completion of the examination," the attorney said. "But I will tell you that Dr. West's visit was hastened by a telephone to him from the defense." Fowler said Ruby had become incoherent. AP, 6:57 p.m. CST 6/20/64 Dallas, J[6/19] - … Clayton Fowler ... said that Ruby had become so incoherent that "we can't communicate with our client at all." ... [Since Earl Warren visited Ruby at the jail 6/7] Mr. Fowler said, Ruby has not been able to "communicate realistically" with his attorneys. New York Times [UPI] 6/22/64 Dallas - The superintendent of Rusk State Hospital questioned today whether it could accept Jack Ruby as a patient "under the present circumstances." "If we were asked to take him, we would want a legal opinion," Dr. Charles Castner said. [Clayton Fowler] suggested Parkland Hospital as a place where Ruby could get treatment while held under guard. But Judge Brown said earlier that Parkland officials have told him at least twice that they don't want Ruby as a patient. Judge Brown said the officials told him:
The Rusk Hospital has facilities. It houses the criminally insane. … A  nother defense lawyer, Phil Burleson, said he believed hospitals would accept Ruby if Judge Brown requested they do so. AP, 9:15 p.m. CST
6/27/64 Dallas - … Ruby has taken only one tranquilizer pill the past month and has refused prescribed medication [the Dallas Times Herald] said. AP, 10:51 p.m. CST 6/27/64 Dallas – [Story on Ruby's interview with Chief Justice Warren 6/7 - "another member of the commission, Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan, and its chief counsel, J. Lee Rankin, also came here for the interview with Ruby".] Ruby said mainly he wanted to sacrifice himself to spare Jacqueline Kennedy further anguish. Also: Ruby said ... he was planning to shoot Oswald when he drove from his apartment to downtown Dallas and walked into the City Hall basement 11/24. Ruby told Warren, however, that he drove downtown for a double purpose - "the wire and the other." … As he had done previously Ruby insisted he was not part of any conspiracy. And he said he said he had never seen Oswald before he lunged forward and shot the assassination suspect while millions watched on television. "I do not belong to any subversive organizations … and no Communists told me to shoot him," Ruby said. "And I didn't get any orders from anybody in the underworld." … Ruby said at one point that he was "a victim of a plot." The meaning of this statement was not clear. But the slayer may have meant that he believes he was sentenced to die because of criticism which Dallas received after the assassination. … Ruby emphasized that he "did not sneak" into the basement. "I walked in," he said, adding that he strode past officers who were conferring. … [These are the quotes as recalled by the informed source who told The News about Ruby's statements ... He says Ruby may have used slightly different words, but the quotes are substantially correct.] Dallas Morning News, Carl Freund [See San Francisco Examiner, 8/19/64] 6/27/64 [Story on Earl Warren's interview of Ruby in Dallas 6/; the "informed source" said Ruby may have used slightly different words, but the quotes are substantially correct.] … Ruby said he held his hand on his Colt Cobra pistol as he walked into the City hall basement ... [See Ruby, 3/4, Dallas Morning News, John Rutledge, describing how Ruby passed through police guards: Ruby was writing on a piece of paper, as would a reporter. Dallas Morning News, Carl Freund 6/27/64 Dallas - Condemned slayer Jack Ruby reportedly asked for a lie detector test and was promised one by Earl Warren during the recent visit here by the Chief Justice. [But, the Dallas Times Herald quoted an informed source as saying, the test was never given.] … Ruby also was described as apprehensive about Warren's safety while in Dallas. "Ruby told Mr. Warren that some people in Dallas think no more of him than they do Ruby and that the Chief Justice might not live more than 30 minutes after he left the county jail," the source said [to the Dallas Times Herald]. AP, 10:51 p.m. CST 6/28/64 Dallas -- Defense attorney Joe Tonahill denied that condemned murderer Jack Ruby told Chief Justice Earl Warren that the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald was premeditated. Tonahill took exception to published reports on a conversation between Ruby and Warren at the Dallas County jail. San Francisco Chronicle, UPI 7/4/64 Washington, [7/3] - … The commission questioned [Mark] Lane in open session yesterday. … Lane also refused to give the name of an informant who, he said, told him about a meeting of Jack Ruby and others at the Carousel Club in Dallas. New York Times [AP] 7/6/64 Oswald ... rented his box 11/1. Ruby rented his box 11/7. Both boxes at Terminal Annex Post Office. Oswald's other box was at the Main Post Office, through which he received rifle. AP, 9:18 p.m. CST [See Oswald/P.O. boxes.] 7/7/64 Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald rented post office boxes just 12 feet apart less than a month before President Kennedy was assassinated, the Dallas Times Herald said yesterday. Both received mail in the boxes during those three weeks. Both used their real names. The story said investigative officials and presumably the Warren Commission have known about the boxes since, shortly after the assassination. 7/8/64 Dallas – The Dallas Times Herald quoted an informed source today as saying Jack Ruby discussed killing Lee Harvey Oswald with his sister many hours before he shot the accused assassin o f President Kennedy. The source said Ruby mentioned shooting Oswald during a conversation with his sister, Eva Grant, one or two days before the 11/24 slaying in the basement of City Hall. "Jack mentioned shooting Oswald to Mrs. Grant and she tried to talk him out of it. They had a big argument about it," said the source, who declined to be identified. Mrs. Grant, however, told the Times Herald that such a conversation never took place. "He [Ruby] never said a thing like that," she declared. Information about the conversation was reportedly related by Ruby to Chief Justice Earl Warren during his visit to Ruby's cell last month, the source said. AP 140pcs 7/8/64 Attorney. Mel Belli and New York newsman Mickey Carroll have finished their book about the Ruby trial -- but all of a sudden the publishers are ducking. Melvin is talking darkly about "pressure from H.L. Hunt." San Francisco Chronicle, Herb Caen 7/9/64 Dallas - Attorneys for Jack Ruby told Sheriff Bill Decker that the slayer attacked one of them during a county jail conference today. The incident took place shortly after another defense lawyer said Ruby had expressed a desire to talk with District Attorney Henry Wade. [Clayton Fowler said it.] Attorneys Phil Burleson and Joe Tonahill said Ruby tried to swing at Burleson, but the lawyer escaped injury. Decker quoted Burleson as saying that Ruby made a "swinging motion" when he became angry during the afternoon conference. "Ruby denies that he did so, but I'm sure he did, " Decked said. ... AP, 931pcs 7/12/64 Detroit - A Detroit psychiatrist ... Dr. Emanuel Tanay, made two visits to the Dallas County Jail after being retained by Ruby's family last 5/14. Tanay told ... Don Beck [staff writer, Detroit Free Press, in a copyrighted story published today] he found Ruby to be "like a caged animal." Ruby ... "definitely wants to commit suicide," Tanay said. AP, 6:38 p.m. CST 7 /17/64 Dallas - An application was filed in probate court Thursday [7/16] to have a legal guardian appointed for ... Jack Ruby.
The application, filed by chief defense lawyer Clayton Fowler on behalf of Ruby's brother, Sam Ruby, claims the convicted killer ... of Oswald is "of unsound mind and wholly incompetent." Ruby ... was sentenced to death in March for the slaying of Oswald. His family and lawyers have maintained his mental condition steadily has grown worse since then. Judge W.F. Bartlett, Jr. has called a hearing 8/6 to determine if Ruby needs a guardian. San Francisco News Call Bulletin [UPI] 7/19/64 Dallas -- story on Ruby's lie detector test the day before. Tonahill said the polygraph test was administered by two FBI men, one from Austin and one from Dallas. Also on hand was Dr. William Beavers. Ruby's psychiatrist. Also present for the test were chief defense counsel Clayton Fowler of Dallas; Arlen Specter of Philadelphia, representing the Warren Commission; Assistant district attorney William F. Alexander and a jailer. AP, 407pcs [Partial transcript of polygraph test, 7/22] 7/21/64 Dallas - The Dallas News said tonight it had learned that Jack Ruby, in a lie detector test, said he decided on the morning of last 11/24 to kill Lee Harvey Oswald. The News said in late editions that Ruby conditioned his resolution on whether "the opportunity presented itself." AP, 10:31 p.m. CST Polygraph test given 7/18. For stories on the test, and partial text, see Ruby, 7/18 to 23. 7/23/64 [No date] A legal adviser for Jack Ruby's family fired Clayton Fowler as the slayer's chief defense attorney Wednesday [7/22], but Ruby said he wanted Fowler to continue to represent him. … "Dann said he was firing me on behalf of the Ruby family," Fowler related. "I thought Jack should have some voice in who represents him. So I went to the county jail and asked him whether he wanted me to continue as his lawyer. He said he did. In fact, he put it in writing." Fowler showed reporters a note scribbled on a sheet of yellow tablet paper in Ruby's neat handwriting. The note stated: "It would be my desire to continue with Mr. Clayton Fowler as my attorney and to handle all of my legal matters pertinent to my case. Jack Ruby PS: Regardless of any opposition from any other attorneys who are attempting to disassociate me from receiving the services of Clayton Fowler." Dallas Morning News, Carl Freund |