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(RUBY, JACK)

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(RUBY, JACK)
(1911 - 1967) Dallas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald following Oswald's assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A rather bizarre relic from Ruby's trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, namely a portion of the original electroencephalograph taken from Ruby on the orders of the court. The readings, nine wavy ink lines on lined graph paper measuring 36" x 8", were obtained on January 28-29, 1964 at a Dallas clinic. Also included are copies of relevant correspondence, including an agreement between prosecutors and Ruby's attorneys to undertake the tests, newspaper clippings, and most tellingly, two differing analyses of the results from two different doctors. One of the reports concludes: "…I would not make a diagnosis of psychomotor epilepsy…the shooting by Ruby of Oswald is not that of the behavior of the post-seizure automatism…", while another physician wrote: "…the readings…show seizure discharges of the psychomotor variant type…some patients with this disorder have rage attacks…[the readings] show abnormally low alpha activity…common in epileptics and rare in normal control subjects…". From the estate of psychiatrist Dr. Ken Holbrook who was appointed by the prosecution to evaluate Ruby's mental state.