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Who was Jack Ruby and why did he shoot Lee Harvey Oswald?

With the recent sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby’s motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger.

Cultural historian Danny Fingeroth’s newest biography, Jack Ruby, The Many Faces of An Assassin includes a new, in-depth interview with Rabbi Hillel Silverman, the legendary Dallas clergyman who visited Ruby regularly in prison and who was witness to Ruby’s descent into madness and who shared with Fingeroth his notes taken during his frequent visits with Ruby in prison. Fingeroth also conducted interviews with little-known Ruby family members and associates. The book’s findings will catapult you into a trip through a house of historical mirrors.

For better or worse, Ruby's is a very Jewish and very American saga, a Greatest Generation story gone horribly wrong.  At its end, perhaps Jack Ruby’s assault on history will begin to make sense. And perhaps we will understand how Ruby’s actions reverberate to the present day.

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