Jack Ruby

(noun)

A nightclub owner convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

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Examples of Jack Ruby in the following topics:

  • Kennedy's Assassination

    • Oswald's case never came to trial because he was shot and killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby two days later while Oswald was being escorted to a car for transfer from Dallas Police Headquarters to the Dallas County Jail.
    • Arrested immediately after the shooting, Ruby later said he had been distraught over the Kennedy assassination and sought to avenge the president's death.
    • The ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone, and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial.

  • The Brown Decision

    • Marshals escorting a young black girl, Ruby Bridges, to school.
    • Only one person agreed to teach Ruby, Barbara Henry from Boston, Massachusetts, who for over a year taught her alone.

  • The Beats

    • Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.
    • Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York.
    • Notably, however, Jack Kerouac broke with Ginsberg and criticized the 1960s politically radical protest movements as an excuse to be spiteful.

  • The Lost Generation

    • Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway's young son, Jack, in Paris, 1924.

  • Theatre and Novels

    • Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959), and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.
    • Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York.
    • Notably, however, Jack Kerouac broke with Ginsberg and criticized the politically radical protest movements of the 1960s as an excuse to be spiteful.

  • Vaudeville

    • Jack How I Envy You with Tony Pastor and Bonnie Thorton

  • The Election of 1996

    • The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of incumbent President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp of New York for Vice President.

  • J.P. Morgan and the Financial Industry

    • Morgan died in Rome, Italy, in his sleep in 1913 at the age of 75, leaving his fortune and business to his son, John Pierpont "Jack" Morgan, Jr., and bequeathing his mansion and large book collections to The Morgan Library & Museum in New York.

  • The Transformation of the West

    • In rural areas Joaquin Murieta, Jack Powers, and other bandits terrorized the state.

  • Clintonomics

    • According to American political scientist Jack Godwin, Clintonomics was more than a set of economic, fiscal, and monetary policies: it was a governing philosophy with political and economic elements, which routinely appropriated nominally Republican and Democratic ideas.