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Jack Ruby Autograph Manuscript Signed in Text

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Jack Ruby Autograph Manuscript Signed in Text
<Our item number 141104><B>Ruby, Jack.</B> Autograph manuscript written from Ruby&#39;s jail cell and signed &#34;Jack Ruby&#34; in pencil on the first page, 14 separate numbered pages, 6x4 in., c.1964-66. Accompanied by a notarized statement, 1p, 11 x 8½ in., signed by Jack&#39;s brother Earl Ruby on December 22, 1992, that this is an &#34;autographed, unpublished, manuscript written by my brother Jack Ruby from jail at my request after Jack was convicted of murder and sentenced to death…The manuscript was to be used by Jack&#39;s lawyers if a new trial was granted to establish his character as not being capable of pre-meditated murder and that his act of November 24, 1963 was spontaneous and born of anguish and grief. A new trial was granted, but Jack died before the new trial could commence.&#34; Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, arrested for the murder of President Kennedy, on November 24, 1963, in Dallas police headquarters as Oswald was being transferred to the nearby county jail. On March 14, 19 64, Ruby was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. On October 5, 1966, Ruby&#39;s conviction was overturned, with the appellate court ruling that his lawyer&#39;s motion for a change of venue before the original trial court, stating that he could not get a fair trial in Dallas, should have been granted. On January 3, 1967, Jack Ruby died of cancer.<BR><BR>Jack writes about selling newspaper subscriptions in San Francisco during the Depression, then coming back to Chicago and becoming a field organizer for Local 20467. While he was in the service, Jack &#34;had been corresponding with my sister [Eva] in Dallas…she mentioned she would like to go in the nite-club business. I encouraged her. I hop a ride on a three day pass and get to visit Dallas for my first time…What impressed me most was the Ambassador Hotel only one block from the supposed to be club. I didn&#39;t realize this part of town was considered one of the roughest…&#34; Jack gave his sister the money to get the nite cl ub built on the property near the hotel. He writes about going into business in Chicago, then having to return to Dallas to take over his sick sister&#39;s nite club. Fine condition. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;4,000 - 6,000. <BR><BR>Our item number 141104<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/49jpegs/141104.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>