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7/23/64 Dallas - … Mrs. Eva Grant, Jack's sister, last night in a radio interview blasted "inefficiency" in the defense efforts since the family fired Melvin Belli … She also asked Sheriff Bill Decker to prevent Tonahill from visiting Ruby in jail. AP, 6:05 a.m. CST 7/23/64 Dallas --- Story about 11/16 issue of Wall St. Journal found in Ruby's car. He denied knowing anything about it. ... J. E. Bradshaw, vice president of Southwestern Drug Co., a major wholesale company, said the newspaper was his. Bradshaw said he could not explain how the newspaper got into Ruby's automobile. He said he was on vacation in Arizona at the time. Bradshaw said he did not know Ruby. AP, 8:55acs 7/23/64 Dallas - Jack Ruby's chief lawyer, Clayton Fowler, said today that the four Texas lawyers who have been representing the convicted slayer will continue as "the sole participants" in the appeal of the Ruby case. The controversy had arisen when ... Sol Dann sought to dismiss Fowler and Joe Tonahill. … Fowler said Dann objected to a polygraph test given to [Ruby] last Saturday. Fowler said Ruby had been looking forward to the lie detector test given him by the Warren commission in his cell. He said Ruby believed the tests would show: 1, that Ruby had no collusion with Oswald, and, 2, that no premeditation was involved in killing Oswald. AP, 3:08 p.m. CST 7  /24/64 … Another Ruby attorney,. Joe Tonahill, said that Dann fired him during a telephone conversation last Saturday [7/18]. Dallas Morning News
7/25/64 ... When he was first told of the murder on Friday afternoon, 11/22, in the advertising office of the Dallas News, his first words were, "My life is over." Not Kennedy's life; my life. To his sister he said, "I am dead." Saturday Evening Post, The Untold Story of Jack Ruby, 7/25/64 Quoting Sgt. Patrick T. Dean [testifying at Ruby's trial regarding conversation with Ruby shortly after he shot Oswald: "Ruby said something to the effect that he thought about the killing two nights prior, when he saw Oswald on the show-up stand. "Ruby said he believed in due process of law, but he was too torn up and emotional about this event. He said this man not only killed the President but also shot Officer Tippit, and that the outcome of the trial would be that he would be given the death penalty inevitably, an he didn’t see any sense for a lengthy trial that would subject Mrs. Kennedy to coming back to Dallas to testify." Belli was up now, shouting for a mistrial, "That man's Constitutional rights have been violated," he said. W  ade, pressing on, asked Dean what Ruby had said.
Dean: "He said when he first noticed the sarcastic sneer on Oswald's face, that was when he first thought he'd kill him if he got the chance. And also that he guessed he wanted the world to know Jews do have guts." … Saturday Evening Post, The Untold Story of Jack Ruby, Edward Linn, pp. 25-40 7/28/64 Dallas -- Lawyers for condemned slayer Jack Ruby today filed 15 formal bills of exception in seeking a reversal of the death penalty assessed him in March for the slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald ... One of the exceptions contended that a prosecution witness, Dallas Police Sgt. Patrick Dean, gave perjured testimony ... ... It [the court] erred when it refused to allow the defense to ask prospective jurors if they were members of the John Birch Society; ... ... It refused to let the defense enter into evidence the murder complaints sworn out against Oswald in regard to Kennedy's death ... AP 705pcs 7/29/64 Dallas - Detroit lawyer Sol Dann has indicated he may renew his efforts to dismiss Clayton Fowler and Joe Tonahill as lawyers for Jack Ruby. Dann told the Dallas Times Herald yesterday in a letter he intends to remain a lawyer for Ruby and the Ruby family. "There is a proper time and place where l expect there will be a complete airing and investigation of those who have been derelict in their duties and responsibilities ... " Dann wrote. … The Detroit lawyer also hinted that, in his opinion, one of the grounds for appeal is the "conflict of interests and failure on the part of certain lawyers to fully and properly represent Jack Ruby." AP, 5:15 am CST 7/31/64 Dallas -- A hearing to appoint a guardian for accused slayer Jack Ruby has been postponed indefinitely. Probate Judge F. W. Bartlett, Jr. said yesterday Ruby's chief defense attorney, Clayton Fowler of Dallas, received permission to withdraw from the case. Sol Dann the Ruby family's legal adviser from Detroit who had originally proposed the guardianship request, said he needed more time to arrange for another lawyer to handle the case. The hearing had been set for 8/6 and the judge said he would await developments before setting anew date. ... Judge Bartlett said he has been told Dann cannot participate in the hearing unless associated with a Texas lawyer because he is not licensed in this state. AP 508acs 8  /8/64 Dallas, [8/7] [UPI] - Judge Joe B. Brown rejected today defense contentions that he had made errors in the trial of Jack L. Ruby. … The judge's action cleared the way for consideration of the case by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. … The appeals court [in Austin] should hear the case in January or February.
If it refused a new trial, the recourses left to Ruby are the United States Supreme Court and, finally the Governor of Texas, John Connally, who was seriously wounded in the Kennedy slaying. The defense's main contention is that Police Sgt. Patrick Dean perjured himself when he said that Ruby, 10 minutes after Oswald was shot, said he had thought about it two days. New York Times 8/8/64 According to Warren Boroson, who interviewed ... Melvin Belli for the July-August issue of Fact magazine ... Belli revealed that H. L. Hunt, right-wing Texas oil millionaire, offered him $100,000 not to defend Ruby. Since the trial, he said, Dallas millionaires have launched a "get Belli" movement, the results of which he described as follows: "After I got back to San Francisco, I found that my insurance policies had been canceled, a book publisher had reneged on a contract to bring out my book 'Black Date: Dallas,' my mortgages were called, my name withdrawn from official lists of lawyers, my credit frozen, TV shows and lectures canceled. I'm not paranoiac, but it's those wealthy Texans who were behind it. You can't imagine the strength and power of that wicked city of Dallas." National Guardian 8/14/64 Dallas - Melvin Belli paid a surprise visit to ... Jack Ruby in the Dallas County jail late tonight. … At the jail for the conference were several of Ruby's present attorneys, including Phil Burleson … … "I haven't been invited to re-enter the case and I would refuse if I were," Belli declared. AP, 1153 pcs 8/18/64 Dallas - ... The Times Herald ... attributing its information to an unnamed source, ... said Ruby told Warren that he had lied to local authorities only once following his arrest after he had shot Oswald … Ruby said he had lied when he told officers he had his pistol with him on Friday night, the day of the assassination, at a "show-up" in the basement of City Hall. AP, 1253 pcs 8/19/64 Story on interview of Ruby by Warren on 6/7. Miss Kilgallen said she obtained the transcript from "sources close to the Warren Commission in Washington.' From the transcript, it seemed to her that Warren and J. Lee Rankin were "acutely aware of the talk both here and in Europe that President Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy." Ruby denied knowing J. D. Tippit. Ruby asked Warren to get him to Washington. Ruby did not admit, but never directly denied, that meeting took place between Weissman, Tippit and himself. Dorothy Kilgallen, San Francisco Examiner 8/19/64 From Dorothy Kilgallen's transcript of Warren's questioning of Ruby: Ruby: Is there any way of you getting me to Washington? Warren: I don't know of any. I will be glad to talk to your counsel about what the situation is, Mr. Ruby, when we get an opportunity to talk. Ruby: I don't think I will get a fair representation with my counsel, Joe Tonahill. I don't think so. I would like to request that I go to Washington ..." San Francisco Examiner 8/19/64 Washington - ... The [Kilgallen] article did not add much to what emerged at Ruby's public trial. Ruby did say that he had been dissuaded from taking the stand in his own defense by his lawyer at the time, Melvin M. Belli. New York Times 8/19/64 … Mel Belli ... today said the assertion Lee Oswald's killer was barred by him from taking the witness stand ... is "utterly false." San Francisco News Call Bulletin 8/19/64 Washington, [8/18] - Officials of the Warren Commission expressed distress today at the publication of testimony supposedly held for the groups forthcoming report [transcript of Warren interview of Ruby in Dallas]. … A commission employee said that on superficial examination the article did appear to contain the verbatim testimony. He said that the commission had given it to no newspaper and that it had no idea how the transcript had gotten out. … Joe H. Tonahill was also present [at questioning of Ruby] and is believed to have been sent a copy of the stenographic transcript for correction. The Dallas Times-Herald also published an article today purporting to quote from the testimony. Some observers suggest that the transcript might therefore have been obtained in Dallas. New York Times 8/19-21/64 From San Francisco Examiner version [apparently incomplete] of Dorothy Kilgallen's transcript of Warren's questioning of Ruby: Ruby says he cannot tell the truth in Dallas, that his life is in danger; begs repeatedly to be taken to Washington to testify, "when you leave here, I am finished ... you won't ever see me again"; asks to speak to Warren in private; - denies having known Oswald; - speaking of entering basement, indicates he walked past "an officer talking ... to a Sam Pease [Pease not questioned by Commission.] in a car parked up on the curb"; - says there was no conspiracy involved in his killing Oswald, but says there is a plot to spread this rumor, suggests plot includes murder of himself and harm to his family, also danger to Warren, names the John Birch Society as part of this plot; - denies he was at Parkland after the assassination. San Francisco Examiner 8/21/64 F  rom Dorothy Kilgallen's story of Warren interview:
Warren to Ruby: "'I know what you feel about the John Birch Society. … Of course I don't have all the information that you feel you have on that subject.' 'Unfortunately,' Ruby countered, 'you don't.;'" San Francisco Examiner 8/21/64 W  ashington - The … Commission … said yesterday a federal investigation has been started into the "premature publication" of some testimony to the commission.
… In [a] telegram to Malcolm Epley, executive editor of the Independent Press-Telegram of Long Beach, Rankin said, ... "The commission has directed me to advise you that no member of the Commission or its staff has divulged or made available to any news media any portion of testimony before the Commission ...” San Francisco Examiner [See Warren Commission, 8/18 to 20/64] 8/22/64 Boston - Melvin Belli ... says he's "shocked and horrified" by the premature disclosure of Warren Commission testimony taken from ... Jack Ruby. … Belli said this "amounts to a confession by Ruby, trapped into it, at a time when he faces the electric chair and before his appeal has been heard." AP 714 acs 8/25/64 Dallas - Defense lawyers have added documents to the official records of the Jack Ruby murder trial to back their claim a key prosecution witness gave false testimony. The documents were affidavits signed by Dallas and Fort Worth television newsmen and lawyers. They supported defense claims that Police Sgt. Patrick Dean did not tell the truth about his conversation with Ruby after the shooting of ... Oswald … … Filing of the documents represents the final local step in the appeal of a death penalty verdict returned 3/14. AP 158 acs 8/29/64 Story on series of articles by Dorothy Kilgallen, on Warren's questioning of Ruby, published in New York Journal-American, 8/18/6 ff. [Mark Lane had informed the Commission months before of the Ruby-Tippit-Weissman meeting at the Carousel.] Yet throughout the three hours of testimony, Justice Warren permitted Ruby to ramble, twist and dodge and never answer directly the questions whether he knew Tippit or had been with him at the Carousel that night. Even more bizarre, Justice Warren added a fourth man to the table, "a rich Texas oil man," whom Lane says he never mentioned. Significant was Ruby's reply to Warren's question. "Who was the rich oil man?" Ruby replied. He never admitted the meeting took place; he never denied it. National Guardian 8/29/64 Dorothy Kilgallen last winter ... reported that Dallas District Attorney Wade was ready to confront Ruby on the stand with 10 witnesses who would say that he knew Oswald. Soon thereafter it was announced that Ruby would not take the stand. National Guardian [See Ruby, 6/13/64.] 8/29/64 Note on Warren's questioning of Ruby, who "seemed far more terrified of ending up a victim of ... alleged plotters than of the electric chair": Justice Warren took the whole agitated outburst in stride and consulted his watch to note that it would soon be time for lunch. National Guardian 9/3/64 Ft. Worth - Karen Lynn Bennett, the young stripper who made headlines during the Jack Ruby murder trial, has resumed her nightclub career . … She said her ... appearance will be her swan song as an "exotic dancer." She did not reveal her plans beyond that point. AP 832 pcs [See Ruby, 12/24/63] [See Ruby, 3/7/64] 9/25/64 Dallas - District Judge Joe B. Brown today granted attorneys for Jack Ruby a 30-day delay in presenting the full record of his case in court for the appeal of his death penalty. … The [defense] petition contended that more time was needed because court reporters have not finished transcribing the voluminous records of Ruby's trial. Assistant District Attorney Jim Bowie said the State would challenge the request for another delay by the defense in appealing the case. AP 61s pcs 9/27/64 San Francisco - Attorney Melvin Belli said tonight he has agreed to file an appeal brief for Jack Ruby ... Belli said in an interview that Ruby asked him to do so and that he agreed. … "I'm satisfied the Ruby verdict will be reversed. Every lawyer knows it will - and the District Attorney in Dallas know it, too," Belli said. Belli said his office has almost completed work on the Ruby brief. He said it will be based on what he called concrete evidence that a police officer committed perjury during Ruby's trial, and the argument that Ruby should have been granted the right to be tried in a city other than Dallas. 9/27/64 Story says Ruby lied to Earl Warren when he said he had asked to testify at his trial, but had been prevented from doing so by Melvin Belli, that defense has in its files notes in Ruby's handwriting stating that he refused to testify. Story suggests collusion between police and Ruby, enabling him to enter basement of police department building. Story says Bill DeMarr [memory expert performing at Carousel Club] cannot be located. New York Journal-American, Dorothy Kilgallen [For DeMarr, See Ruby, 11/24/63] 9/28/64 Story on publication of Warren Report, dealing with its report on Ruby, says he was in financial difficulties and owed some $40,000 in Federal taxes. AP, Frances Lewine 9/28/64 Dallas - Jack Ruby learned about the Warren Commission's Report Sunday from his sister, Mrs. Eva Grant. But she said he "just didn't comprehend it." … Sheriff Bill Decker said he also visited Ruby's jail cell to deliver mail. "He didn't say a word about the Report." San Francisco News Call Bulletin [AP] 9  /28/64 Washington - ... The commission pieced together the painstaking account on the theory that if Ruby had been involved in a conspiracy, his activities and associations during this period [11/21 to 11/24] would in some way have reflected the conspiratorial relationship.
Other commission conclusions regarding Ruby were that he:
The commission specifically discounted an allegation by ... Mark Lane ... that Ruby, Bernard Weissman and ... J.D. Tippit had met at Ruby's Carousel Club on 11/14. San Francisco Chronicle [from New York Times] 9/28/64 Chronicle story on publication of Warren Report, dealing with Ruby’s activities in san Francisco area, 1933-1937; sold race track tip sheets, etc. San Francisco Chronicle 9/28/64 Story on publication of Warren Report, dealing with Ruby's entry to Police Department basement, quotes the Report: "Video tapes taken without interruption before the shooting ... show Ruby standing at the foot of the ramp on the Main St. side before the shooting." Washington Evening Star, Herman Sehaden [See CE 2635, Warren Report, p. 220.] 10/3/64 Before Ruby had an opportunity to answer the question as to whether or not he was at such a meeting [Ruby, Tippit, Weissman, Carousel, 11/14/63], Chief Justice Earl Warren said: "I did feel that our records should show that we would ask you the question and that you would answer it and that you have answered it." No direct question was ever asked of Ruby in reference to his attendance at such a meeting by the Commission. The Commission nevertheless concludes that Ruby "denied" that he attended such a meeting. The transcript of Ruby's testimony shows conclusively that Ruby never made such a denial and that no direct question as to his attendance at such a meeting was ever asked. National Guardian, Mark Lane 1  0/3/64 Dallas - ... [Ruby] is suspicious and wary, particularly of hire own attorneys. Tonahill said the defense psychiatrist [not identified] calls Ruby's reaction typical of a "psychotic depressive paranoid. He has strong suicidal tendencies and will commit suicide if he can … He is wary of his own attorneys and overly fond of the prosecuting attorneys who want to see him executed." AP, Peggy Simpson
[See Ruby, 11/15/64, AP 1105peaw, Sid Moody rdp 10/6/64 Dallas - Jack Ruby believes the Warren Commission report proved of little value in dispelling rumors that he was involved in a plot to assassinate President Kennedy, Ruby's chief defense lawyer [Clayton Fowler] said today. … [Fowler] believes Ruby "lacks the mental capacity" to understand the meaning and significance of the report. "It appears there has been a further deterioration of his condition," the attorney said. Fowler said the defense does not, however, plan to renew a request that Sheriff Bill Decker transfer Ruby to a mental hospital for treatment. "Jack isn't a raving maniac," Fowler said. "But it appears to me as a layman that his condition is slowly deteriorating." AP 935 pcs 10/7/64 The first man who took that job [as Ruby's lawyer] was Constine Alfred Droby, President of the Criminal Bar Association of Dallas who was interviewed by Jean Campbell for the London Evening Standard of 10/7/64: "I said I would defend Jack," he told me ... "but I had to give it up before I really started, as my wife's life was threatened by anonymous phone calls and we were told our house was to be blown up by dynamite." However Droby told me that as Ruby's attorney he had rushed around to Ruby's apartment soon after the shooting with Jim Koethe, a Dallas news reporter. "The place was in chaos. I think we were the first people to see it." "  You remember anything especially?" I said.
"No, just chaos and newspapers," Droby answered. "I wonder if Jim Koethe saw anything?" I asked. Mr. Droby folded his hands and leaned forward: "Koethe's murdered," he said. "He was choked to death the Monday before last." London Evening Standard, Jean Campbell, Quoted by Joachim Joesten in Gaps in the Warren Report, p. 206 10/8/64 Austin, TX, [10/7] - The state Supreme Court refused today to hear Texas State Bar Association charges against Melvin Belli, ... who defended Jack L. Ruby last spring. The state bar contended that Mr. Belli should be barred from practicing law in Texas because of his conduct during and after the Ruby trial ... When Mr. Belli learned of the court action today, he said: " ... The same bunch that's beaten in their own Supreme Court is now moving before the rich man's insurance club, the American Bar Association, to kick me out of there. Next they will move to have my membership in the Book-of-the-Month Club revoked." New York Times [AP] 10/9/64 Dallas - ... Melvin Belli says he doesn't believe ... Jack Ruby gunned down Lee Harvey Oswald to keep Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy from having to return to the scene of her husband's assassination. The fiery Belli rendered this opinion in his book entitled Dallas Justice ... He said Ruby's story of trying to protect Mrs. Kennedy from a harrowing court appearance at Oswald's trial "did not add up although it was a story in which he [Ruby] persisted off and on to the end [of the trial]." AP 12:25 pcs 10/19/64 Dallas Justice, The Real Story of Jack Ruby and His Trial, Melvin M. Belli [with Maurice C. Carroll]; David McKay, publisher. 10/21/64 Dallas - District Judge Joe B. Brown said last night he will take no action on a request that he oust defense lawyers Clayton Fowler and Joe Tonahill from the Jack Ruby murder case. Mrs. Eva Grant ... made the request in a letter. She asked Brown to rule that the only "attorneys of record" in her brother's case are Sol Dann of Detroit, Charles Bellows of Chicago and Phil Burleson of Dallas. … Fowler, presently chief of the defense staff, says he was hired by Ruby personally and the family cannot fire him. Mrs. Grant said she acted under power of attorney from her brother granted 2/4. AP 349 acs 10/28/64 Story on Carousel Club and its current manager, Diana Hunter, a former performer there, now running the club for an investment firm "which apparently took over the mortgage." AP 244 acs [See Ruby, 9/27, AP 717 ped.] 11/81/64 Ruby's former night spot, The Carousel Club, is closed. Other owners have tried but failed to make a success of it. AP 610 pcs 10/28/64 Dallas - Jack Ruby's chief defense counsel and an appeals expert asked District Judge Joe B. Brown today to let them step out of the case. Clayton Fowler, head of Ruby's defense team since last June, and Emmett Colvin. Jr., filed motions to withdraw from the case. In requesting their release, the two lawyers noted that ... Mrs. Eva Grant last week asked the court that all lawyers on the case, except Phil Burleson, be removed. … Both motions said Mrs. Grant's letter requesting removal of the lawyers was prepared in Burleson's office. Fowler stated that the letter was written "evidently with his [Burleson's] knowledge and acquiescence." AP 514 pcs |