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Jack Ruby killer of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is born

A stock photo of the Chicago skyline over Lake Michigan ,Chicago, Illinois, USA
Image: Shutterstock.com | Above: A stock photo of the Chicago skyline over Lake Michigan ,Chicago, Illinois, USA

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The man who shot the man who shot the President was born Jacob Rubenstein in Illinois, Chicago. Whether this was indeed his birth date was not established even by the Warren Commission, the body set up to investigate the JFK killing.

What is known is that he drifted through life, was drafted, and eventually ended up running his sister’s nightclub.

It was here that he met many of the police officers in front of whom he would shoot dead Oswald...