On this day, Jan. 3, in 1967, the man who shot and killed presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald died in a Dallas hospital. On Nov. 24, 1963, at the Dallas police headquarters, Jack Ruby was posing as a journalist when he stepped from the crowd of reporters and shot Oswald in the stomach with a snub-nozed .38 revolver.
Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator, was involved with major figures in organized crime, leading conspiracy theorist to claim that he killed Oswald as part of an larger plot to kill Kennedy.
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Others said Ruby cried at the news of Kennedy’s death and could not be entrusted with a high-level secretive plot.
Ruby died of lung cancer at the same hospital where Oswald died and where Kennedy had been pronounced dead.
— Scott McCabe
