Jack Ruby at Dallas Police Headquarters

New York: Jack Ruby (center) mingles with the crowd in a corridor at Dallas Police Headquarters on the night
of November 22, 1963, after President Kennedy's assassination earlier that day. Two days later, Ruby
stepped out of the crowd in the basement of the same building to fire the shot that killed Lee Harvey
Oswald, the accused assassin of the President. The scene pictured here is from the CBS News Extra
<November 22 and the Warren Report> to be broadcast September 27.

A television broadcast captures Jack Ruby and reporters at the Lee Harvey Oswald press conference two
days after Oswald's arrest in Dallas, Texas in conjunction with the assassination of President Kennedy.
Ruby, a local night club owner, shot and killed Oswald during this broadcast.

Guards escort Lee Harvey Oswald during a television press conference at the Dallas police headquarters
 two days after the assassination of President Kennedy. In the foreground stands local night club
owner Jack Ruby who would assassinate Oswald minutes later.

Oswald turns toward the waiting vehicle as burly form (Jack Ruby) plunges forward, arm outstretched.

Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.

Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.

Jack Ruby walks up to accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and shoots him
as he is escorted into a police station in Dallas.

A camera captures the back of Jack Ruby as he shoots Lee Harvey Oswald who is being escorted by guards
 during a television press conference at the Dallas police headquarters. Oswald, who was arrested in
conjunction with the assassination of President Kennedy, reacts to the impact of the deadly bullet.

Police officers surround Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald just after Ruby shot Oswald during
a television press conference at the Dallas police headquarters.

Jack Ruby Shoots, Lee Harvey Oswald Falls

America knew nothing of the man born Jacob Rubenstein until November 24, 1963, at 11:21 am, when he
stepped out of a crowd at Dallas police headquarters and, in front of newspaper photographers and TV
cameras, fired his .38 Colt into the belly of Lee Harvey Oswald. Only two days before, Oswald had shot
and killed beloved President John F. Kennedy. The succession of events left the country reeling. . .
and wondering just who Jack Ruby was. Pictured: Lee Harvey Oswald is hurried into an ambulance
after being shot by Ruby. November 24, 1963.
(Photo Three Lions/Getty Images)

Oswald is Hurried to the Hospital

A nightclub owner, Ruby often carried a handgun. In fact, witnesses saw him with a gun in the halls
of the Dallas Police Headquarters on several occasions after President Kennedy's assassination.
There is some evidence that Ruby hadn't planned to shoot Oswald: He left his favorite dog,
Sheba, in the car as if he were simply running a quick errand.
(Photo: Robert W. Kelley/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Lee Harvey Oswald is loaded into an ambulance after being shot by Jack Ruby during a press conference
two days after his arrest in conjunction with the assassination of President Kennedy.

Lee Harvey Oswald dead.

The shirt worn by Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

KRLD reporter Bob Huffaker and a detective stand where Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby
in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters earlier in the day.

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