The Ruby Cover-Up (Who Was Jack Ruby?)

By S. Kantor

From Wikipedia: Jacob Leon Rubenstein (March 25, 1911-January 3, 1967), who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890836809
• ISBN13: 9780890836804
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Eye Witness. Who was a real reporter.

Any researcher of the JFK murder will want to read a book by this working journalist who knew Jack Ruby. The WC chose to ignore Kantor at the time, and pictured a Ruby with no connections. For JFK newbies: One, lone killer - LHO - out of the blue, who just felt the urge to kill? Okay. I buy it. But TWO of them? Two, loner-nutty-people who felt like killing during those 48 hours in Dallas? I've seen the live tv killing of LHO. I watched the WTC attacks live on tv. Each time, the shiver up the spine came from the "second" hit; JFK, horror, surprise! First Tower, an accident? Bad pilot? But when Ruby shot Oswald,and when the second plane hit, one knew there was a conspiracy. This is not a narrative of theories or a history of the complex layering of forces on that day;it's oftentimes wordy; but, it's a close-up view of the character who slipped into history with his gunshot, and disappeared from history without a convincing exit.

Re-living That Second Murder of Defenseless Men, 1962

Today is the 44th anniversay since that fateful day when former nightclub owner and Mobster shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in cold blood as the nation watched on television. I saw it, and it was unbelievable that the Dallas police would let him get that close. Oswald was shackled with his hands behind him and had no way to know that something like this could happen. Only in Texas, where they killed President John F. Kennedy two days earlier! In this country, a person is innocent until proven guilty, or supposedly that is the law of the land. In Dallas, it seems that Oswald had been set up to die to shut him and keep him from talking about his co-conspirators in the assassination on November 22, 1962. He was a dead duck and a sacrifice. Ruby did not kill him because he was insane or "loved" the president. He killed him so that we would never know the truth. They had chosen him to be appointed the trigger man, although the person in the grassy mall was the real assassin. He had libed in Russia and married a Russian girl, so he was expendable and his past would make it appear as if he was the actual trigger man. I have never believed that he was, and an innocent man was shot down in the presence of the police and media with no defense. He was the person less worthy of living, according to the Mob and Ruby's bosses in the sleazy, sordid underworld in which he was a minor player. He, too, was expendable and the cancer of his prostate came in handy to set him free to die in peace and from natural causes, not gunned down as he did Oswald. The world will never forget that American justice allowed this to happen and treated it as a happenstance. This author is giving us a first-person account of those days in Dallas from the historic and on-the-scene perspective. He knew Ruby from the days he had been a reporter on a Dallas newspaper. He saw Ruby in Parkland Hospital an hour after Kennedy was shot. That is not a happenstance. He was in on the conspiracy to kill the president and to get rid of the person who had been chosen to take the blame. Just as the person who was judged guilty of the Martin Luther King murder, James Earl Ray, who spent the rest of his life and died in prison for something he did not do. He was paid and sent off to England. How was he caught there? Some snitched on him, and he was the fall guy, the one to take the blame for something another conspiracy which succeeded. Seth Kantor was a member of the White House correspondents whose article, HOUSTON, Nov. 21 -- "The story of President and Mrs. Kennedy's 'non-political' trip to Texas is chock full of bad timing and highly political backfires." This ran on the front pages of 'The New Yokr World-Telegram & Sun,'The Denver Rocky Mountain News,' and other Scripps-Howard newspapaer all across the country. Our local daily paper is owned by Scripps. He exposes the sinister world of Jack Ruby and his conspirators, was not believed at first, but when he made an