Jack Ruby S Girls

Author : Diana Hunter,Alice Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89069284123

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Jack Ruby's Girls by Diana Hunter,Alice Anderson Pdf

Stripper, B-girls and naive bus station broads knew Jack Ruby best. Two of the girls who worked for him--felt the sting of his insults and the childlike gentleness of his compassion for all living things--have given a fascinating account about the life in Ruby's Carousel Club in Dallas. And in doing it, they have also told a compelling story about Jack Ruby himself. Diana Hunter and Alice Anderson have put together their stories and the stories of the other Jack Ruby Girls with straightforward honesty. They are sometimes funny. Sometimes tearfully pathetic. And sometimes $exy. More effectively than other writers and reporters who thought they understood Ruby and why he shot the man who killed President Kennedy, these girls give their own penetrating insight into Jack Ruby's character. They offer the most believable explanation yet for his undoing--a compulsion for what he thought of as "class." Ruby died (and the Carousel Club with him) while legal minds were studying what should be done about the death sentence placed on him for a deed he thought should have made him a hero. And even the Dallas "establishment" gets another blast from these tart-tongued girls, when one of their characters sums up the multiple tragedies that happened in Dallas in 1963 by saying: "This goddam town will never know how to embrace the dead in the right way, or how to kiss a ghost goodbye."--From jacket flap

Author : Wesley Treat,Heather Shades,Rob Riggs
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1402766874

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Weird Texas by Wesley Treat,Heather Shades,Rob Riggs Pdf

"If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."

Author : Danny Fingeroth
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781641609142

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Jack Ruby by Danny Fingeroth Pdf

Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby—and how did he come to be in that spot on that day? As we approach the 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. The fascinating yet frustrating thing about Ruby is that there is evidence to paint him as at least two different people. Much of his life story points to him as bumbling, vain, violent, and neurotic; a product of the grinding poverty of Chicago's Jewish ghetto; a man barely able to make a living or sustain a relationship with anyone besides his dogs. By the same token, evidence exists of Jack Ruby as cagey and competent, perhaps not a mastermind, but a useful pawn of the Mob and of both the police and the FBI; someone capable of running numerous legal, illegal, and semi-legal enterprises, including smuggling arms and vehicles to both sides in the Cuban revolution; someone capable of acting as middleman in bribery schemes to have imprisoned Mob figures set free. Cultural historian Danny Fingeroth's research 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. Fingeroth also conducted interviews with Ruby family members and associates. The book's findings will catapult you into a trip through a house of historical mirrors. At its end, perhaps Jack Ruby's assault on history will begin to make sense. And perhaps we will understand how Oswald's assassin led us to the world we live in today.

Author : Tom Miller
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN : UVA:X004420340

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Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink by Tom Miller Pdf

A wonderfully original and vivid portrait captures the soul of the Southwest and demonstrates why Tom Miller is among America's wittiest and most graceful writers. This extraordinary book leads readers deep inside the uniqueness of the region and reflects on the mounting tension between its eroding physical splendor and the diverse inhabitants who crisscross its bleached deserts, cracked pavement--and 18-hole golf courses.

Author : Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1696 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393072129

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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi Pdf

For fifty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history. At 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead, the victim of a sniper attack during his motorcade through Dallas. That may be the only fact generally agreed upon in the vast literature spawned by the assassination. National polls reveal that an overwhelming majority of Americans (75%) believe that there was a high-level conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Many even believe that Oswald was entirely innocent. In this continuously absorbing, powerful, ground-breaking book, Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies about an event that changed the course of history. The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who forged an iron-clad case of circumstantial guilt around O. J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of writing the definitive book on the Kennedy assassination. This is an achievement that has for years seemed beyond reach. No one imagined that such a book would ever be written: a single volume that once and for all resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible. There have been hundreds of books about the assassination, but there has never been a book that covers the entire case, including addressing every piece of evidence and each and every conspiracy theory, and the facts, or alleged facts, on which they are based. In this monumental work, the author has raised scholarship on the assassination to a new and final level, one that far surpasses all other books on the subject. It adds resonance, depth, and closure to the admirable work of the Warren Commission. Reclaiming History is a narrative compendium of fact, forensic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses, and common sense. Every detail and nuance is accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi's irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last it all makes sense. Some images in this ebook are not displayed due to permissions issues.

Author : Seth Kantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038698705

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Who was Jack Ruby? by Seth Kantor Pdf

Veteran newsman, Seth Kantor, an eyewitness to the execution of Lee Harvey Oswald, spent four years finding answers to the numerous questions regarding Jack Ruby, and now throws new light into the JFK assassination. -- amazon.com

Author : Estados Unidos. President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5317650826

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Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy by Estados Unidos. President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Pdf

Author : Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393347623

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Parkland (Movie Tie-in Edition) by Vincent Bugliosi Pdf

"Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America." —Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The film—starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, and Billy Bob Thornton—follows a group of individuals making split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event: the doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret Service, the cameraman who captured what has become the most examined film in history, the FBI agents who had gunman Lee Harvey Oswald within their grasp, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson who had to take control of the country at a moment’s notice. Based on Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History—Parkland is the story of that day—the movie is produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman (Game Change, Charlie Wilson’s War), Nigel Sinclair (End of Watch, Snitch), Matt Jackson (End of Watch, Snitch), and Bill Paxton, and written and directed by Peter Landesman.

Author : Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393347333

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Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi Pdf

An analysis of JFK's assassination and its surrounding conspiracy theories draws on forensic evidence, key witness testimonies, and other sources to explain what really happened and why conspiracy theories have become so popularized.

Author : Mark Shaw
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628735246

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The Poison Patriarch by Mark Shaw Pdf

Focusing for the first time on why attorney general Robert F. Kennedy wasn’t killed in 1963 instead of on why President John F. Kennedy was, Mark Shaw offers a stunning and provocative assassination theory that leads directly to the family patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy. Mining fresh information and more than forty new interviews, Shaw weaves a spellbinding narrative involving Mafia don Carlos Marcello; Jack Ruby (Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer); Ruby’s attorney, Melvin Belli; and, ultimately, the Kennedy brothers and their father. Shaw addresses these tantalizing questions: Why, shortly after his brother’s death, did a grief-stricken RFK tell a colleague, “I thought they would get one of us . . . I thought it would be me”? Why was Belli, an attorney with almost no defense experience (but proven ties to the Mafia), chosen as Jack Ruby’s attorney? How does Belli’s Mafia connection call into question his legal strategy, which ultimately led to the Ruby’s first-degree murder conviction and death sentence? What was Joseph Kennedy’s relationship to organized crime? And how was his insistence that JFK appoint RFK as attorney general tantamount to signing the president’s death warrant? For fifty years, Shaw maintains, researchers investigating the president’s murder in Dallas have been looking at the wrong motives and actors. The Poison Patriarch offers a shocking reassessment—one that is sure to alter the course of future assassination debates.

Author : James L. Swanson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545496544

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"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson Pdf

A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER! In his new young-adult book on the Kennedy assassination, James Swanson will transport readers back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history. As he did in his bestselling Scholastic YA book, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER, Swanson will deploy his signature "you are there" style -- a riveting, ticking-clock pace, with an unprecedented eye for dramatic details and impeccable historical accuracy -- to tell the story of the JFK assassination as it has never been told before.The book will be illustrated with archival photos, and will have diagrams, source notes, bibliography, places to visit, and an index.

Author : Garry Wills,Ovid Demaris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Trials (Assassination)
ISBN : UOM:39015020742972

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Jack Ruby by Garry Wills,Ovid Demaris Pdf

"You all know me, I'm Jack Ruby." That's what the killer shouted when police grabbed him a split second after he had pumped a bullet into the stomach of Lee Oswald. Who was Jack Ruby? Madman? Superpatriot? Conspirator? Two top writers achieve a gripping portrait of the complex and contradictory character of Jack Ruby - a man who grew up in an immigrant home with a drunken father and an insane mother, who climbed out of the ghetto to become the owner of a popular Dallas nightclub. The authors let his friends and employees describe the Jack Ruby they knew. He was a punch-happy scrapper who fought before he thought because "I might lose my nerve." Ruby could "cuss straight on like saying his prayers" but didn't allow dirty talk in front of his lady strippers. He could fire an employee seventeen times and pay for her kid's operation. A bachelor, he "respected" his fiancee of twelve years too much to marry her. He sought the company of cops, newsmen, anyone he thought important. Jack Ruby had many acquaintances but his only real friends were his dogs. Living in the fringe-society of hucksters and hustlers, Jack Ruby longed to be a big man in Dallas. Until the day he died he had a childlike awe of "class," respectability, and the law. Wills and Demaris get completely inside the mind of this complex man. They recreate the day Jack Ruby woke, got an SOS call from one of his girls, shaved, dressed, said good-bye to his dogs, drove downtown, parked his car illegally, walked over to the crowd and shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. The reader understands. He did it "for Jackie and the kids" and because he was Jack Ruby. With the same graphic immediacy the authors describe those first stunned minutes of disbelief after the murder, Ruby's incomprehension of his position, his grotesque camaraderie with his old friends on the Dallas police force ("You all know me..."). The authors move jail to courtroom, catching the carnival atmosphere of Ruby's trial--with brilliant portraits of defense attorney Belli and prosecutor Alexander--and finally to the hospital room where Ruby died. This book reveals Jack Ruby as no other has. It is a story of a marked life, of a man whose precarious sanity was destroyed by the events he created--who spent his last mortal strength trying to persuade the world that he did his duty as an American, a Texan, and a Jew when he killed the man who killed Kennedy.--From jacket flap

Author : Anthony Summers
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453274064

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Not in Your Lifetime by Anthony Summers Pdf

Updated with the latest evidence, Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers’s essential, acclaimed account of President Kennedy’s assassination. Almost sixty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, most Americans still think they have not been told the truth about his death. Chief Justice Earl Warren, who chaired the first inquiry, said “some things” that “involve security” might not be released in the lifetime of the then public. Millions of pages of assassination records were made public since the late 1990s. As of 2022, however, more than thirteen thousand declassified documents—most of them from CIA records—still contain redactions. President Biden ordered that all documents be released in December of 2022—unless he sanctions continued secrecy. Anthony Summers’s account of the murder mystery that haunts America is one of the finest books on the assassination. “An awesome work, with the power of a plea as from Zola for justice.” —Los Angeles Times “The closest we have to that literary chimera, a definitive work on the events in Dallas.” —The Boston Globe

Author : Barry Ernest
Publisher : Barry Ernest
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781460979372

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The Girl on the Stairs by Barry Ernest Pdf

On November 22, 1963, a young Victoria Elizabeth Adams stood behind a fourth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. She watched as John Kennedy was murdered in the streets below. Then, with a co-worker in tow, she ran down the back stairs of the building in order to get outside and determine what had happened. At that precise moment, her life changed forever. Her actions posed serious problems for the Warren Commission, already grappling with its agenda of naming Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin. If Miss Adams was telling the truth, then she had descended those stairs at the same time Oswald would have been on them as he made his escape from the sixth floor sniper's nest. Yet Miss Adams saw no one. And even though the stairs were old, wooden, and creaky under any weight, she heard no one either. When Miss Adams was called to testify before a Commission attorney, she was quickly discredited, humiliated, and eventually branded a liar. Behind closed doors she pleaded with the government to conduct time tests of her actions if she was felt to have been inaccurate. She begged the government to question her co-workers, particularly the woman who had accompanied her down the stairs, if she was not believed. Instead, she was ignored. And so, knowing the truth of what she had done and now fearing for her life because of it, she went into hiding and became willing to die with that secret knowledge. Intrigued by what little was available about Miss Adams, the author went in search of her. It took him 35 years to eventually find this elusive witness. As his journey progressed, many questions arose about the assassination while others were put to rest. And in the end, the truth of what Miss Adams did was finally discovered. This is an important story, unique in this mess that continues to surround Kennedy's death. It is a story that has been buried for decades. It is an account the government did not want you to hear, and actually fabricated evidence in order to keep you from hearing it. Now, the truth can be told.

Author : Patty Duncan
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781608441709

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Detour to Dallas by Patty Duncan Pdf

Sundy Snow is so concerned about her future that she neglects the present. A classroom of fresh-faced second-graders is her dream and the reason (along with her naivete) that she refuses to fully register the trouble in her young marriage. She is, further, too busy with her future to heed the warning of Rose Chermini, a woman she and husband Jason have just rescued from a Louisiana highway. But Rose Chermini has warned that the president will be killed. And in Dallas. It is November, 1963. Back in Knoxville following their brief trip to Lake Charles, Louisiana, Sundy attempts to resume her normal, extensive work schedule, ignoring the significance of Rose Chermini's words - despite the unalterable fact that John F. Kennedy has been assassinated. And in Dallas. But strange and dangerous events begin to rock the young couple's routine. And Jason's growing fascination with the conflicting and dumbfounding news surrounding the assassination add additional stress to their six-month marriage. The death of a fraternity brother propels the couple, with their friend, Rick Harnish, to Dallas. While danger now lurks in other forms, the truth of their marriage finally unfolds while the characters and mysteries in the JFK assassination finally launch Sundy into the present. Patty Duncan lived through the drama of the John F. Kennedy assassination and, as a young woman, began to believe the cynicism of the Sixties could be traced, at least in part, to that sad event. She has spent twenty-five years in public relations and advertising, including a stint as press secretary in the Tennessee legislature. With retirement, she turned again to assassination theories and was surprised that so little attention had been given to Rose Chermini, a woman who warned medical personnel of the impending assassination. "Although there is a dearth of information about Rose Chermini, she, and her warning, warrants further attention - as do some of the other players in the assassination drama. "I chose a story of a young couple who are struggling with their own busy lives, intersecting their demons and foibles with the startling, appalling idea that their very own government could be involved in the tragedy that occurred November 22, 1963. "Subjects that belong to the American public, as the Kennedy assassination certainly does, invite us to revisit them again and again," Patty said. Dividing their time between Cape Coral, Florida and Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, Patty and husband Joe, when not reading, writing, or playing tennis, can be found humbly fulfilling the fancies of their two cats, Leggs and Al.