16 ack Ruby: WhoWasHe and Why Did He Do It? if he lost, he'd write a hot check of RY GARY CARTWRIGHT and split. Ruby got 40 per cent A lot of bizarre people were Ruby was about as handicapped as you can get the action_ doing some very strange things to Sex shocked and disturbed him, In the fall of 1963. a Yankee. Second, he was and that's how Ruby had his falling dame Nhu bought s dozen in Dallas. First, he was out with Jade, who had been shower caps at Neiman-Mar- a Jew. Third, he was in the nightclub business." Imparted from the 500 Club In New cue and tried to drum up Orleans. so that the Carousel could support for the Diem regime In compete with the much classier Skigon. even while her host an the Colony Club (where Chris Colt was U.S.. the CIA. laid plans to /seas- stripping) or Barney Weinstein'e simile Diem himself, Members of Theatre Lounge around the corner. the American Nazi party danced where you could catch Nt Ski Joy. around a man In an ape suit in Ruby was childishly jealous of the front of the Times Herald building. Weinstein, who drove Cadillac. Congressman Bruce Alger, who and Jaguars and took frequent had once eared a sign accusing trips to Las Vegas; and he as- Lyndon Johnson of being a traitor, suaged his envy by drafting corn. went on television to denounce the plaints to the stripper's union. the Peace Carps as "welfare socialism Liquor Control Board. and the IRS. and godless materialism. all at the accusing the 1A'einsteins of what- expense of capitalism and basic ever_ Even the FBI. to its sorrow. • U.S. spiritual and moral values." knew of Ruby's antipathy for the Zealots fmm the National Indigna- Weineteins. 01311 the Ruby rumors tkin Committee picketed a UN Day that have fltarished and died speech by Ambassador Antal Stet through the years—that Ruby venson: they called him Addle-Eye Bred at Kennedy from the railroad and booed and spat on him and hit overpass, that Oswald visited the trim on the head with a picket sign. Carousel Club a few days before - When a hundred civic leaders the assassination—only the most eared wrong and sincere apologies current one, that Ruby was an to the ambamador. General Edwin informant for the FBI. seems 70 Walker, who had been cashiered have much trurh to It. Hugh by the Pentagnn tor foree-tecating Aynesworth, a Times Herald re- eentwtrig prepapasiee porter who knew Ruby well, veri- the American flax amide fled It "In 1959 the FBI tried eight in front of his military-gm. times to recruit . They __snansion on 'Turtle Creek. There teamed him as an informer on pro-Castro cabers and and- drugs. gambling. and organbied cabals that overlepped and crime, but every Urne epee:a claedesime commerce to tarred him, Ruby tried teilerfas fill a dozen Bogart movies. Drugs. competitors an n-orabie_'9V Atse• arras, muscle. propaganda: the over at the Colony Club aritrjallng piety of the Dallas business cli• on his income tax- ..01' Barney at - mate was the perfect cover. A the Theatre Lounge is selling booze friend of mine in banking operated atter bodes.' After a while the FBI a fleet of trucks In Bogota as a gave up on the idea." The Wein- sideline. Airline stewardesses steins, not surprisingly. considered brought in sugar•conted cookies of Ruby a creep. black Turkish hash without having I first met Jade about a month the slightest notion of what they before the assassination. Bud were carrying. Shrake and I shared an apartment Jack Ruby was having one of his on Cole Avenue that autumn. and eastern:ry feuds with an employee since we were both sportswriters, of his Carousel Club. but this one Ruby considered us favored cus- was serious. His star attraction f.1., tomers. He invited us to the Jada claimed that she feared for Carouse! one night. and &wake her life and placed Ruby under ; • "t-s.fri, came home with Jade. We all peace bond Newspaper ads for the became good trends. and when Jo Carousel Club during the week of Jack Ruby came a long way tom Chicago (above), where he once put together a song and and I got named a few weeks later, Jade gave us our first wed- November M featured Bill Demur. dance act with a young partner named Sugar Daddy. Ruby died in Dallas in ISC at age 55, a comic ventriloquist—hardly ding gift a two pound Girl Scout drink, Any girl caught hooking in Ruby's style. but the best he could have to tell you about Oswald. and down the stairs The Carousel was cookie tin full of illegal weed she his Joint would get manhandled do. what he was doing in Dallas that a dingy, cramped walkup in the had smuggled across the border in and fired on the spot, but Ruby And someone took a pot shot at November, when Jack Ruby took 1300 block at Commerce. right next her gold Cadillac with the letters leaned on his girls to provide sex- General Walker In his oven home. the ploy away from Oswald. and to Abe Weinstein's Colony Club DADA embossed on the door. Jada ual pleasures for favored clients. People said later it was Lee Her- from all of us . and close to the hotels, restau- cleared customs with 100 of the Jack Ruby was a foul-mouthed, vey Oswald Dallas. Oswald, Ruby, Watts, rants, and night spots that made tun-pound sins In the trunk of her mean-tempered prude who laved If there is a tear left, shed it for Whitman. Manson, Ray, Sithan, lively and re- zar She was accompanied by a children and hated ethnic jokes. He Jack Ruby. He didn't make histo- Bremer, Vietnam, Nixon. Water- spectably sinister in those times of Pate politician (who knew nothing didn't drink or smoke. He was ry; he only stepped In from of it. gate, FBI, CIA. Squeaky Fromme. official innocence. You can see about the load) and wore a mink violently opposed to drugs. though When he emerged from obscurity Sara Moore—the list goes on and more flesh in a high school biology mat. high-heel shoes, and nothing he maintained his own high energy Into that tneAncable freeze-frame on. Who the hell wrote this script, clam now than you could at any of rise. The first thing she did at level by popping Preludin—an that Joins all of our minds to and where will it end' A dozen the joints on The Strip in 1963. but customs was open the door and fall upper--and it was rumored that he Dallas. Jack Ruby, a bald-headed years of violence. shock treach- that wasn't the point Jack Ruby ant, revealing more than the cus- operated a personal clearing house little man who wanted above all ery, and paranoia, and I date it all ran what he considered a "decent" toms official expected. That was else to make it big, had his back to back to that insane weekend In place. a "high-class" place. a for mob drug runners. He was arse of Jada's great pleasures, involved In shady financial the camera- Dallas and Jack Ruby—the one place that Dallas could view with driving around Dallas in her mink schemes, and the IRS was on his 1 can tell you about Jack Ruby, essential link in the chain, the man pride. "Punks" and "characters" coat and high heels, her orange back. A swindler who called him- and stout Dallas, and If necessary who changed an Isolated act into a who wandered in by mistake were hair piled high and the coat flaring self Harry Sinclair, Jr., told Secret remind you that human life Is trend. as likely as not to leave with an open. It was a better act than the Service agents that Ruby backed meetly fragile and the holy litany Jack Ruhylaisd come a long way impression of Jack Ruby's bat one Ruby paid for. hint In a bet-and-run operation. Ruby planted the story that Sada of ambition and success takes as from the ghettos of Chicago. ar so where their nose used to be. Ruby supplied cash and introduced Wan trained in ballet, had a college warn' people to hail as It dues to he liked to think. He described the Cops and newspapermen, that's Sinclair to likely virtims. iii. L degree In psychology. was a de. heaven. But someone else will Carousel Club as a "J—ing classy who Ruby wanted In his place. regularly, Hunt was supposed to have been seendant of John :Quincy Adams. Reprinted from Monthly. Joint" and patrons who challenged Dallas cops drank there, one., Li Sinclair min, he'd Collect; and a granddaughter of Pavlova. Coyyrtght r 1975 Texas Monthly. Ms opinion sametiraee get thrown and none of them ever paid for a -Ades name was Adams. Janet %team engine as be churned could be embarrassingly' senti- tion. in a spot called the Purple Mister District Attorney. Oswald Adams Contorts but she hadn't through the streets of downtown mental. Orchid. Ruby's ex-champagne girl was a member of use Fair Play for been inside a classroom since she Dallas. gladthanding, passing our "Ruby was a crier." Ayneswenh Joined RI million viewers of Ruby's Cuba Committee." The voice was ran away From a Catholic girls cards. speaking rapidly. cempel- recalls. "I mean, he could go to a astounding crime on television. Jack Ruby's. How did he know "chord In New York at age 15. and sleety, about his new line of pizza fire and break me crying." The girl turned to the bartender, that? Well, it was in all the news she Mean dance her way out of a ovens, about the twistboards he Aynesworth has been investigat- who had also worked for Ruby, and reports. but there is a more In. donut. Her act consisted mainly of was promoting, about the impor- ing the events of that week for 12 she said "Weil, Jack's finally eiguing theory: an FBI report hunching a tigerskin rug and mak- tant people he knew. cornering years and has concluded that the gonna get recognized." overlooked by the Warren Com- ing wild orgasmic sounds with her friends and grabbing strangers, Warren Report Is mostly accurate. Times Herald editorial page edl. mission suggests that one of threat- eta a grand climax Jade relating amazing details of his Two mile two killings, "In Ruby's tar A. C. Greene and his wile had Ruby's many sidelines was the role would spread her legs and pop her celeste life and how any day now case the conspiracy theory Is to- lust driven home from church. of bagman for a nonpartisan group G-string, and that's when Ruby he would make it big. He once tally ridiculous," he told me. Betty Greene ran ahead to answer of profiteers who stole arms from would turn all the Lights and the spotted actress Rhonda Fleming "Ruby would have laid everyone the telephone. and when A. C. the U.S, military and ran [hem for hell would Wart having a club sandwich at Love on the streets of downtown Dallas. walked in the kitchen door she told anti-Castro Cubans. The other strippers and cham- Field and joined her for lunch. You Ho, ho, ho, they asked me to help him that someone had last killed Ten o'clock came and went, and pagne girls hated Jada. She was a could always spot him at the hex- kill the President. Of course tin the man who lulled the President. still Oswald hadn't been trans- mar and acted the part. The bus. ing matches. He'd wait until Just not gonna do It." lie was someone who owned a ferred_ It was after 10 +shell. Ruby oration girls from Sherman and befere the main event. when they Joe Cavaparn, one of Jack downtown nightclub, Betty Greene received a telephone call from one Tyler Caine and went—Ruby auto- turned up the Lights, and he'd Ruby's best friends, made the eald, bewildered. Oh, God._ A.C. of his strippers who lived in Fort ererically fired any girl who prance down the center aisle In a same observation. thought: Jack Rube! Worth. The girl needed money. she 'agreed to have sex with him—but badly dated hat and double-breast' "Nobody would have misled While Ruby was sheeting Os- needed it right then. Ruby dressed Jade treated Ruby like a deg. She ed suit. shaking hands and handing Jack with a secret," he said. "He weld, Jo and I were driving from and drove to the Western L'nion called him a pansy and worse. and out free peeve to the Carousel, talked too much." Columbus. Ohio, where I had just office in the same block as the atm spread ward among the cus lie was always on his way to Cavarpro is she sales manager met my new in-laws. to Cleveland. police station. He couldn't have temp's that the hamburgers some very Important meeting. of the Stetter Hilton, a neat, mane where the Cowboys were playing missed the crowd lingering outside served out of the Carousel's tiny saying he was going to see the cured, gregarious man who exudes the Browns. The NFL was the only on Commerce and on Elm, At 11:17 kitchen were contaminated with reyer, the police Chief, some the personality of downtown shop that stayed open that week- Ruhy wired the money. He walked dog shit_ Judge, Stanley Marcus, Clint Mar- Dallas, but he was just a man In end. They claimed that It was a up an alley. passed through the One eight while Jade was ravag- chews. And every day he'd make crowd, and entered the ramp of the ing her tiger skies, a tourist stepped his rounds—the bank, the Stetter police stellate a distance of about up and popped a flashbulb In her Hilton, the petite station, the 350 feet. He was carrying better face. Ruby threw the startled courthouse, the hall-bond office. than 91000 In cash the couldn't cameraman downs the Wales Jade the Doubleday Book Store. [Rube hank the money because the IRS popped her Getting about a foot, was a compulsive reader of new might grab is; and his gun was in and Ruby threw her off the stage, diet books), he delicatessen, the its customary place in his right All this took a few seconds but for shoeshine parlor. radio Malian coal pocket. timer few seconds Ruby was an KLIF. Three minutes after Ruby posted Resolute madman. Then he walked K1.IF wan owned by Gordon the Western Colon Monet., order. over to our table and said In his McLendon. whom Ruby once ides- he shot Oswald very weary. clear. huckster Wee, tilled as "the world's greatest If the world at large was shocked "Haves it going, bays! Need any- American." McLendon, who billed at that precise minute. consider thing!" I don't think lit remem- himself as the Old Scotchman,- the bewilderment of Jack Ruby as bered what had Just happened. made his reputation recreating the Dallas cops pounced on hen On the morning of the ekseseina- baseball games on the old Liberty date Ruby, the theredthie assassin, guns down Lee Harvey What was wrong? Had he done lion. Ruby called our apartment Broadcasting System until organ- something he wean'', supposed to Oswald. 'INS, a friend thought, "Jack could do rt." and asked if we'd seen Jade. ized baseball conspired to !hut him do' Didn't everyone want him to Shrake said we hadn't. "I'm warn- dawn. The Old Srolchrnan would need of it friend when he arrived In public Service. and in retrospect I kill Oswald? What the hell wan lag you for your owe pad." Ruby sit in a soundproof studio a thou- 1955. Cavagearo was eating al the Chink they were right. Shrake met this? said. -Stay away from that sand miles from the action he was Lucas B&B Restaurant next to the Me at the press box entrance And "You all knew me," he weld woman." "Is that Intended. as a describing, reading the playky• Vegas Club one night when Ruay told me what had happened. pathetically "I'm Jack Ruby." threat," Shrake inquired. "No, play tram the ticker, his voice sauntered in, said hello. and picked "Jack Ruby!' I said. "Why Jack Ruhy Lind to believe that he no," Rueyeepologizett "No. It's Shrill and disbelieving, while his up the check, was guilty of a premeditated. cal. emauta. feat. abets an evil woman-"_ piled man ilealles'a cureern "He was a fine person_ Caves. "Why not,- Shrake said, shaking culated murder. The alternate: •ee the Other chills on The mayor Wes Wise was one them) earn said. "Much different then Alt dad. , to admit_ be was era4-.. -ezekeritete " tr--e,--eeTi beer On a grave/rue with a bet and lae teatime gOti teedealle bad a big kahrn, *Rave that.7adi Ruby Awful la Contemplate - dip Joint where Robyn gels Ma- faked PA aerieuncements request. heart. He was good ie people. wee part of a comp' rney, a "des. During the trial he told he chid, rie- tied 51.98 berries of champagne for Ing that the owner of a blue 1947 Anyone down an his lock, he'd help bie cutout" as they say in the spy attorney. Melvin Belli. "What are, Whatever thee_Could get . please move his car our „paint "Lvov, There tepee then you must anemone:lade we doing, Mel, kidding o. "We kept Oehler-I-initiate fee lane. Later Mc tr peeicaman VIIM*'-weie and Uteri the conspency 'waived We know what happened. We a her [Owe," a oneelme Ruby pioneered the Top Forty kid were In an aecidtell, he took degas or even hundreds of plot- I did it for Jackie and the hid e'clairreparie lid told me. The music/news format, Introduced a over a sack of groceries He'd read ters, Including Captain Will Fritz nedyl kids. ! just went in and shot woman, who is now married to a series of right-wing radio editor!. something in the paper abate some al the Dallas police department. him. They've got us anyway. well-known musician. scent to als. ran unsuccessfully for Ralph poor family and he'd go to the Time and events make Ruby's role Maybe I aught to forget this silly work for Ruby when she was 17, Yarberough's Senate Pat, and rescue. Sure. he had a short fuse. In it conspiracy almost impossible. SW"' that I'm felling midget an the "Jack would tell us to come on la launched a one-man campaign but remember, he had to police his Oswald was to have been trans- stand and tell the truth." the pewee re. patentee them any- against dirty and suggestive songs awn business. otherwise they'd ferred from the city Jall to the The silly story that Belli, Joe thing—of course he didn't mean for like "Yellow Submarine" and Close him up. The vice squad was county jail at 10 am.—that won a Tana hill. and other members of PI to deliver, but sometimes we did "Pane the Magic Dragon," The always hanging around his place. solid Commitment Chief Jesse the defense team Were attempting on our own time. The price for a Old Scatchman. Jack Ruby liked to Some drunk would act up and Jack Curry made to his intimates to pass along to the fury was that beetle of cheap champagne was say, was Lila idea of "a theellecue would remove him without the vice among the press corps. If Ruby Ruby killed Donald during a se anywhere team fifteen to seventy- squad being aware it ever hap- had beet" gunning for Oswald. lf he lure of psychomotor epilepsy. five doilars. We'd sit with the Ruby wasn't a big man—five foot had premeditated the crime that St Belli and Tonahill still subscribe te customer as lung as the bottle nine, 175 pounds—but he had thick Cavagnaro and Ruby bad coffee mlillen witnesses saw him cone this contention. lasted. thinking out of wise we shoulders and arms, and he was at the Stetter a few hours after the mit, he would harp been al the "The autopsy confirmed 1, Ruhy plied spit glasses—fronted glasses fast. lee swam and exercised rep. assassination. Ruby was eititreMe- police station al 10 a.m. But he had 15 brain [um:ire-Joe Tomball of ice water. We worked for ups or tarty at the YeliCA, and was a ly upset, and blamed the Morning wasn't. There were several told me. Tunable, a huge. deliber- whatever we could steal. compulsive consumer of health News , reasons for the delay in transfer- ate, friendly man. maintains the "Actually. Jack had a sort heart. foods He had an expression that "He said it would ben dad day In ring Oswald. but the main ane was Ruby trial "was the unfalrest trial He own always booing ua money dated from his streeteighting dayn hell before he placed another ad Will Frites insistence an interne In the !emery of Teem." Judge Joe and knocking the seat out of any- In Chicago- "Take the play away." with the News," Cavegnaro told gating the suspect one more lime Brown, exhibiting a dome one who gave us a bad time. He It meant to strike fine lie usually me. "Jack was a true patriot. He in city loll. downtown Dallas mentellty. ap- liked ULM image of himself—big Carried A big roil of money, and was also a Democrat. He thought Ruby knew when the transfer pointed Dallas advertising execu- bad protector. He'd fire you. then when he carried money he also Kennedy had done a let fur the was scheduled. He had covered the tive Sam Bloom to handle "public )0 minutes later break in on you Ito carried a gun. minorities_ Just from a business event like a reporter en a hear relations- and overruled the de- be John and demand to know why Hugh Aynesworth saw the many standpoint, he said, something like Parkland Hospital. the assassina- fense on almost every motion. you weren't on the floor Rushing personalities of Jack Ruby as thee could kill a city." tion site. the press conferences. lie Ruby himself considered hiring a drielee. One girt there got fired clearly as anyone. Aynesworth re- Did he say anything about kitting was always at the center of the public relations man--or that's about 500 times." called a night at Ruby's second Oswald? action, passing out sandwiches. whet he wrote in a letter to his The Only "decent" woman to Club, the Vegas, when a drunk "1 think everyone in Dallas said giving directions to oil-at-town intellectual hero, Gordon Jack Ruby's lee was Alice Nichols. Came in after hope with a bottle something to the effect that 'I'd correspondents, acting as unaffl- McLenciore a shy widow who worked for an' bulging from his inside coat pock. like to kill that SOB.' " cial press agent for District Attar- "Jack Ruby needed help long ineurance company. He dared her et. Ruby took the man's two dol. Bat Ruby did it; that Is the ney Henry Wade—who, like every- before Kennedy came to Dallas.- emend off for 11 years. The reason bars, showed him to a table. then difference. What did Cavorter° one else on the scene, simply Tnnehill said. He was seated at the Ruby couldn't marry Alice. he told smashed the- bottle against the think when he heard the news' regarded Jack Ruby as part of the desk of his law office in Jasper, in many of his friends, was that he man's rib cage. Another time -1 thought. yes, Jack could do furniture. Twice during a press treat ol a four-by-eight-foot blowup had made his mother a deathbed Aeneswarth eneountered a dared. [hat. I'd seen him hit a guy once for Conference Wilde mistakenly idea- of Bob Jackson's Pulitherprize. promise that he wouldn't marry a bleeding winctaggering near the insulting a girl. The guy practi- tined Oswald as a member of the winning photograph of the Oswald gentile. Ruby's mother had died Inc Adolphus Hates. The wino had tried cally left his feet and flew across violently anti-Castro Free Cuba murder. "Ele was a big baby at an Insane asylum In Chicago. to hem a quarter from Ruby. who the street.- Committee. The second time a bleh—almost 15 pounds. That k • Ruby had the Carriage Of la ban- smashed him m the head meta full In the same block as the Stealer friendly voice 01 the back of the could have hod something to do Warn cock and the energy aL a whlekey bottle. Yet at theeilliiey Hew and the Dallas 'peke' sea- room'eorreeled the Dek.-"Ne. sir, , ..' Continued on next page

• liked and respected, and his own pants of the glans skyscrapers. The "`.., Jack Rubs' attorneye described him as a, vil- 'Jack Ruby had to believe that big department stores and the S, continued from preeneng pope lage clown. tie didn't even get to theatres and the good restaurants wittl It. His mother died In an tell his own story. and by the time he was guilty of a premeditated have gone to the suburbs. Twelve insane asylum In Chicago_ His fa. the Wart-on -Commission found years ago you could have dropped . her was a drunk and was treated time to Interview hint months murder. The alternative—to a net 16 blocka square from the • for pitychitark disorders. A later, Ruby was convinced that Republic National Bank tower and E brother and is sister had psyehia. there was a conspiracy to slaugh- admit he was crazy—was too been fairly sure that you had her treatment. Ruby tried to corn. ter all the Jews of the world. caught a quorum of the Dallas • MIS Weide a couple of years eerie "In the beginning." Toriatell told awful to contemplate.' oligarchy. There instill a feeling of er. His finger was once bitten off Le me, "Ruby considered himself a affluence, but the vortex of power g a fight. He had a long history of hero, He thought he had done a has moved to the suburbs, out violent, antisocial behavior, and great service for the community. Stemmone. not Greenville, out • when it was over he wouldn't re- When the mayor, Earle Cabell, Northwest Highway, out to Old Member whet he had done, What testified that the act brought dis- Town—whatever Old Tavel is. provoked elm? Maybe the flash. grace to Dallas, Jack started going There are blacks on the cie bulbs—that's a common cause In downhill very fast. He got mere council. and the mayor is a former cases of psychomotor epilepsy—or nervous by the day. When they grapefruit hitter for the Old the TV cameras. or the smirk on brought in tee death penalty, he Scatchman. The Old Scatchman Oswald's face." cracked. Ten days later he ram. long ago sold KLIF and is seldom I asked Tarahill what he thaught iced his head into a cell wall. seen anymore; he is a Howard Of Ruby as zi person. Then he tried to kill himself with Hughes figure. dabbling, so it is 'He was a real object of pity," an electric light socket. Then he said. to multinationals and world- TonahrII said. "Anytime yeti see a tried to hang himself with wide real estate- When the eon person overflowing with ambition sheets." disappears behind the canyon to be someone, that Newn is ad- Ruby wrote a letter to Gordon 2 walls, what you see in dee:rumen dark Ruby's base In Deilas was the Cassese! Club, whieb h mitting to you and the world that McLendon claiming he was being Dallas is blacks with mops and he a nobody. Ruby was like a poisoned by his Jailers, Many War- described as a " —Mg classy joint," brooms, waiting for an elevator. Damon Runyon character—a total ren Report critics take this as Although Alerander. known to "I'm paraphrasing now" Alex- Siackfaced office workers wall for Inconsistency," additional evidence of a con- members of the press as "Old ander said, "but it was like he a bus In front of the old Majestic It Jack Ruby was noecrazy when spiracy. If someone did poison Snake-Eyes," was the Main reason wanted to open the lack Ruby Theater, and black hookers with he gunned down Cowed. It's a Vile Ruby. it was a waste of good Henry Wade got all those death Shaw on Broadway. get a TY show, beehives appear to show the Fra- bet the trial drove him that way. poison. An metope' confirmed the penalties that the leaders of Dallas write a book. He asked me If I ternal Order of Eagles the sights. Day after day to the circus atmo- brain tumors, massive spread of were convinced would deter crime, thought he needed an agent." I wander: Could there be a Jack sphere of Judge Brown's court- cancer, and a blood clot in his leg, he Is no longer on the Drees Mare Alexander spat tobacco juice in Ruby in 197e? Where would he go' room, Ruby was forced to sit as a which (Malty killed him. Shortly after his infernous de- a can and said: "Jack Ruby was What would he do? The Dallas silent exhibit while psychiatrists The trial of Jack Ruby may have claration that Chief Justice Earl about as handicapped as you can Jack Rube knew is gorse. melee him a latent homosexual been one of the fastest on record. Wan-en didn't need LmpeathIng, he gel in Dallas. First. be was a That Dallas was a city of shame. with a COMptilaive desire to be The crime was committed in No- needed hanging, Alexander re- Yankee. Second, be was a Jew. ban it wasn't a city of bate. It was vember and the trial began in signed to enter private practice. Third, he was In the nightclub Ignorant, but It wasn't ;neon. Its February. "The climate never When I telephoned Alexander for business. vision was genuine and sincere. cooled Of." Tonahli I seld. "He was an interview, he told me he didn't "Thai's horseshit about him but it had the heart of a rodent. Le (1: tried as it was peaking. There waa want to talk about the essassina- being a pollee buff. He didn't think the subterranean tunnels of those N w this massive guilt in Dallas at the tem. any more of a policeman than he proud spines of capitalism and free time. The only thing that could "I'd like to kick the dagshit out of did a /Assent. It was Mat good enterprise crawled armies of ran- nave Dallas was sending Ruby In every Yankee newspaperman, bueiness. The vice squad kept plus men and hustlers, cheap-shot ar. the electric chair." club the f--em to the ground." he and minus charts on the Joints Mos and money changers, prefi- Taste Though there are unanswered "Yuu can still see thein, right 'cause the licenses came up for teers and Ideologues, grubbers. questions in his mind, Tanahill up to this day, hanging around the renewal each year. The vice squad grabbers, fireflies, eccentrics, and supports the conclusions of the Book Depository," Alexander went can kill a Joint if they pet in the cueiccos. Dallas was Just 111.0 every Warren Report. on. "Fat-ass Yankees In shorts and wrong mend. Who wants to drink place else, emept tt couldn't admit - - Great "li there was a conspiracy, and earner.* getting the roofs of their beer with a harness bull looking it. It was nor it was suppressed, It had to involve malts sunburned. A carload of ever hit shnulder? . - and the murder of John F. Ken- maybe a miiiilimpumigit Yankees pulled up to my friend •Quit kidding me abets! how nedy that proved what Dallas was bunch ni trap..Weejeee.ee. Miller Tucker and said f Almander much Rebe laved people. Or haw really like. but Jack Ruby and the "Thee worst mistake the Warmth, slipped into an Eastern accent much he loved the Kennetlys. Hell, murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Surprisingag able! CommissionTIMM 'Officer, where did Kennedy gel where was he while the motorcade We drive out Turtle Creek past Rose Kennedy - shoe!' Or Meer teen the Muer of tuna passing through downtown? In Genera] Walker's prim gray for- aueopsy report. his head and says 'Right here, the goddamn Dallas News, piecing tress. On the front lawn, a crude, thing about Kenneth physical friend, right here.' " an ad for his elute" hared-lettered marquee said condition the family didn't want That afternoon 1 rrtet Alexander The teprosecutor eat back and DUMP ESTES. a reference. I made public. I don't knew what II in his law office and he told me sighed_ suppose. to the Dallas superinten- was. Possibly a vasectomy—there about his Manchurian Candidate "It's a real experience to see dent of schools who apparently was a story he had a trammel:: theory. how real, /actual history can be wasn't resisting Integration fast (QUAIL after the death of his baby. Being "I worked a solid two years on distorted in 10 years on that people enough. Like downtown Deltas. the good Catholics. the Kennedy fami- this," he began. "I read the entire who lived it can't recognize it." General is quieter these days. Ken ly wouldn't have wanted that 26 volumes of the Warren Report Latimer. a resident actor at the out." just to protect myself, and tracked • • • Dallas Theater Center. tells us, down every lead L could get my One close participant in the bi- On a warm day 12 years "General Walker and his people hands on, and I don't have any used to picket us fairly regularly. zarre happenings of Dallas who removed from that nine of Ruby evidence that anyone acted with isn't satisfied with the Warren and Oswald, my son Mark and I lout they've been quiet for some Oswald. time now." Latimer played the Commission investigation Is Bill walk the streets of downtown Alexander, the salty, acid-tongued "Now." he Said. raising a finger Dallas and know the place For the lead In the DTC prndeetlen of and slipping into third person she prosecutor who did most of the feet time. "Jack Ruby, All-American Bay." a talking fur Henry Wade at the pear no that it' would be clearly drams that attempted without Ruby heat Alemnder and farmer understood he was speaking The Blue Front where you Could much success to answer the ques xda3d0FL-rEm state Attorney General Waggoner hypotheticolly, "Who knows how eat the world's best Mail soup and than: Was „lards Ruby a typical Carr both urged the commission to person has been brainwashed- watch Willie sweat In the potato Americane Investigate FBI and CIA personnel mativated—hypnotizede salad is gone. The Star Bar is gone. "Ruby wanted to be liked. to he Hodges, Joe Banks, the Oyster UUGGANS 000 00 for information linking the agen- "A man is cashiered out at the respected, tote succemlui accord- cies to Lee Harvey Oswald. There Marine Corps—he moves to R03- Bar, the musty little book stores ing to the value system of our •imataamadoro is no indication that such an inves- sia—he marries the niece of the with their dark volumes, the mom society," Latimer says. "He was and dad shops, the smell of pizza. of AERDEDSCOTO-I WHiscr tigation took place. head of the °GPO spy school—he Cheap success, but in his own mind chill rite. of peanut oil. of stale "I'm in Washington telling the stays a certain amount of months, he had class, Violence was ad- beer, of perfume, lose now In the 86.8 cernminemn to check out this ad- then turns up at the American missibIe to his system—taugh- floor Embassy and says, 'King's X. tomb at our memory. What you anOMMT Or SCOTtraitt dress I found in Oswaid'e notebook, nees—let ne one push you around. In his apartment, the day of the bellows, I want to go home. Do you smell 12 years later Is concrete_ "You asked me was it the ell. killing." Alexander recently told think you people might could pay What you nee are the walls of a mate of tee times that made Ruby : 'ea c— t. my way back to New York?' glass canyon. _ the Houston Chronicle. "None of do what he did? No. Jack Ruby Wouldn't somebody debrief that The corner oI Commerce and 1-. those Yankee hat dogs are paying would do the same thing today." any attention to me. man? Hell, the FIE knew he was in Akani. which used to beetle wilts We talk to stripper Chastity Fun. "So I pay 'Waggoner. eimort, New °titan,. They sent his folder beautiful women in short skirts who played the role of Jade. Chas. let's get Arab.' We jump in and tell to Dallas before the assassina. and quick men with briefcases, is thy had never met Ruby ar Jade: the driver to take us net this ad- tine" nearly deserted, except for a few she was a Junior in an all-girls dress. Weiget there and what do On the other hand. Alexander Hare Kreshnas and some delegates Catholic school in Los Angeles inlity in Mr you think Le is? The goddamn Rus- has not the slightest doubt that to the Fraternal Order of the when Kennedy was aseamlnated. sian Embassy. Now. what does Ruby acted alone in a legally sine. Eagle,. The Carousel. the Colony, She Is fascinated that t had known trite .Ce. offish tradition! That tell yen" premeditated manner, Atemnder the Theatre Lounge. the Horseshoe therm and mks me four questions and Dr. John Holbrook were Bar- the whole Strip has been for every one I ask her. Chaste} slMilieeirteeLerfee 7 "To this day, I don't thine any• T. body from the commission among the fine to question Ruby leveled and turned into a gigantic took, something like Jade. except =7.3 7: followed that up." after the shooting. parking lot for the invisible gem- better_ " Ic be refused to do Jade.' beer- ts rug hunch in the play. Her show 1

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time," Chastity says. "There are ELGI snit a few clip joints like Ruby ran, and there are three, maybe four. DADDY, traditional atrip places where you can go watch a show and not get hustled. The big thing now is top- less. The traditional Olin show— we call It parading--ax dying out. GOO It's sort 0152d. Lt la an American tradition, but It dales back to the 'CH and 'SOS when you couldn't see awn or WOW walking down the

Although She never knew Jack Ruby, Cheerily had heard of him far years from her agent, Pappy Dolsea. Poppy was one of Ruby's contemporaries, an aid-lime club owner and booking agent. a gentle- man tough from a truly tough time. Puppy had told the story many a times how Ruby telephoned him the day before Oswald woo killed and said: "I know I did you wrong. Puppy, but I'll make It up to you. I'm going places In show business. and when L do, you're going with Take back your retirement. In the diamonds. south of France, or Peppy has had a heart attach Take back your on West 82nd Street. and Is In the intensive care ward at mink. So goodbye, dear Baylor Medical Hospital. but Chastity shows an a letter that I'm my own Sugar Daddy, it Ruby had written to Pappy years woman now with an would have been ago. It Geld. Individual Retirement Ac- all the time. sweet. But one of these days, We regret, at this time. we are count at Central Savings And if I want to retire just one of these days, look unable to book the "art" you have Bank. „ early, I can withdraw from me up. You'll find me in the for us—I'm sure Its as wonderful as you mention but the price is too I didn't ha vtalra y accciinit bY the age of book under Sugar Mama. 1-.-ing high. Hoping to confront you . roust plan wherOtWilieeiti,"l70, well, 59%. For information about esisa, I qualified far an PA.." lS I'll robably IRA account, call 212- d did I need (ibLe-.7:91-'4111W0- .-re, -•.4•1nt tax racket, -4500, or stop by the :— There is one mare thing to do. Lean put up to TO of anyway. • Central Savings office w nay salary, or $1500, in it So one day, along with -nearest you. ach year. All at once, or in my Social Se- murdered Sibetrif remember small amounts. And not curity, money, CENTRAL much of It. But there was an article pay any taxes on it now ... I'll have a in Loon, written by a Fina Oil SAVINGS i'Ornpany executive named Jack or on the interest now nice little nest Silea, which mentioned that at One which it will be earning egg for my BANK Saanaatillab w.a. roly public school ire Dallas. children cheered the news of the assassina. reed A iir.ndwas. !Jed & Arc. of non- Jack Shen was a good Galin,. alth & Briisdussi rid!, 41 46. Ace: LC. & lir and a Wp-leDel businessman, Wc4e, Sr.; Spam: J■inkho but his pit feeling that Deltas wee Tnk. di So. fiercer Hay Rd..). big enough to hear lite truth from one of Its own was 0 serials mis- CalculatiOn. Shea Was lire& He is now a partner In a Los Angeles ad Jo and I named our son Shen ATTENTION PLANT LOVERS after the Finn executive, and I was YlkIft you aro away as vacation sr bailment, why Isar plan, a reunion? C111-1011i. to read the article one more time. Funny. I had never told Our 5,110a um VIna tarsier Intel.. Mark or his 5151tY Lea how Shea PIapn. thdoies got his name. I hadn't thought Ideal larnparaluraa about Ii for a lung time. Too many tessVz2i Shine had happened. ramying CL Undor Laving Cary "COPENHAGEN" Twelve years ago, when the first aroultinCtiment that the President For Meg &Woman • Itaporliag ii•allabl*-MantiooT la. had been shot was broadcast over Men--size 8-13 S24 in tams. tan b brown VI the PA system at Richardson Ian. FREE Plet•up and Deriver, In N.Y.C. wig for High School. Gertrude Hinter. Woman—niZt 4-10 SpatImi tale. ealandadvenallant Na nand nu lasna aa.r Yap silk naIi/h/norr an eighth-grade teacher, began 122 in Plod, tan crying. Bob Dudney. who is now a red, Wow, reporter for the Times Herald, brown Moderate Prices — Extraordinary Semite recalled the moment. She turned S preen Fin NrIllar laformalllari %meet her back long ennugh to compose Cap Mantloy h Priday ID am- re 9 paw 1tlin417•0131 herself, then addressed her class with these prophetic words: 462 Orb Avant.' 'I'l I E PLANT SPI"l'ERS, "Children, we are entering into ESC:. LiS tVELY.„STYLE0 FOOTWEA0 Cumin I I th Sire. an age of violence. There is moth- NS =MX Ha Gnu.. Ela. onr...W0 974-9613 Mon-Set. 11.7 Huntington, N.Y. • Ing we can do about it. but all of us must may calm and above all, ci- (516) 667.0238 vilized."

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