16 ack Ruby: WhoWasHe and Why Did He Do It? RY GARY CARTWRIGHT if he lost, he'd write a hot check A lot of bizarre people were and split. Ruby got 40 per cent of doing some very strange things to Ruby was about as handicapped as you can get the action_ In the fall of 1963. Sex shocked and disturbed him, dame Nhu bought s dozen in Dallas. First, he was a Yankee. Second, he was and that's how Ruby had his falling shower caps at Neiman-Mar- out with Jade, who had been cue and tried to drum up a Jew. Third, he was in the nightclub business." Imparted from the 500 Club In New support for the Diem regime In Orleans. so that the Carousel could Skigon. even while her host an the compete with the much classier U.S.. the CIA. laid plans to /seas- Colony Club (where Chris Colt was simile Diem himself, Members of stripping) or Barney Weinstein'e the American Nazi party danced Theatre Lounge around the corner. around a man In an ape suit in where you could catch Nt Ski Joy. front of the Times Herald building. Ruby was childishly jealous of the Congressman Bruce Alger, who Weinstein, who drove Cadillac. had once eared a sign accusing and Jaguars and took frequent Lyndon Johnson of being a traitor, trips to Las Vegas; and he as- went on television to denounce the suaged his envy by drafting corn. Peace Carps as "welfare socialism plaints to the stripper's union. the and godless materialism. all at the Liquor Control Board. and the IRS. expense of capitalism and basic accusing the 1A'einsteins of what- U.S. spiritual and moral values." ever_ Even the FBI. to its sorrow. • Zealots fmm the National Indigna- knew of Ruby's antipathy for the tkin Committee picketed a UN Day Weineteins. 01311 the Ruby rumors speech by Ambassador Antal Stet that have fltarished and died venson: they called him Addle-Eye through the years—that Ruby and booed and spat on him and hit Bred at Kennedy from the railroad trim on the head with a picket sign. overpass, that Oswald visited the When a hundred civic leaders Carousel Club a few days before - eared wrong and sincere apologies the assassination—only the most to the ambamador. General Edwin current one, that Ruby was an Walker, who had been cashiered informant for the FBI. seems 70 by the Pentagnn tor foree-tecating have much trurh to It. Hugh eentwtrig prepapasiee Aynesworth, a Times Herald re- the American flax amide porter who knew Ruby well, veri- in front of his military-gm. fled It "In 1959 the FBI tried eight __snansion on 'Turtle Creek. There times to recruit Jack Ruby. They pro-Castro cabers and and- teamed him as an informer on cabals that overlepped and drugs. gambling. and organbied epee:a claedesime commerce to crime, but every Urne fill a dozen Bogart movies. Drugs. tarred him, Ruby tried teilerfas arras, muscle. propaganda: the competitors an n-orabie_'9V Atse• piety of the Dallas business cli• over at the Colony Club aritrjallng mate was the perfect cover. A on his income tax- ..01' Barney at - friend of mine in banking operated the Theatre Lounge is selling booze a fleet of trucks In Bogota as a atter bodes.' After a while the FBI sideline. Airline stewardesses gave up on the idea." The Wein- brought in sugar•conted cookies of steins, not surprisingly. considered black Turkish hash without having Ruby a creep. the slightest notion of what they I first met Jade about a month were carrying. before the assassination. Bud Jack Ruby was having one of his Shrake and I shared an apartment eastern:ry feuds with an employee on Cole Avenue that autumn. and of his Carousel Club. but this one since we were both sportswriters, was serious. His star attraction f.1., Ruby considered us favored cus- Jada claimed that she feared for tomers. He invited us to the her life and placed Ruby under Carouse! one night. and &wake peace bond Newspaper ads for the ; • "t-s.fri, came home with Jade. We all Carousel Club during the week of became good trends. and when Jo Jack Ruby came a long way tom Chicago (above), where he once put together a song and November M featured Bill Demur. and I got named a few weeks dance act with a comic ventriloquist—hardly a young partner named Sugar Daddy. Ruby died in Dallas in ISC at age 55, later, Jade gave us our first wed- Ruby's style. but the best he could ding gift a two pound Girl Scout have to tell you about Oswald. and down the stairs The Carousel was drink, Any girl caught hooking in do. cookie tin full of illegal weed she what he was doing in Dallas that a dingy, cramped walkup in the his Joint would get manhandled And someone took a pot shot at had smuggled across the border in November, when Jack Ruby took 1300 block at Commerce. right next and fired on the spot, but Ruby General Walker In his oven home. her gold Cadillac with the letters the ploy away from Oswald. and to Abe Weinstein's Colony Club leaned on his girls to provide sex- People said later it was Lee Her- DADA embossed on the door. Jada from all of us . and close to the hotels, restau- ual pleasures for favored clients. vey Oswald cleared customs with 100 of the Dallas. Oswald, Ruby, Watts, rants, and night spots that made Jack Ruby was a foul-mouthed, If there is a tear left, shed it for tun-pound sins In the trunk of her Whitman. Manson, Ray, Sithan, downtown Dallas lively and re- mean-tempered prude who laved Jack Ruby. He didn't make histo- zar She was accompanied by a Bremer, Vietnam, Nixon. Water- spectably sinister in those times of children and hated ethnic jokes. He ry; he only stepped In from of it. Pate politician (who knew nothing gate, FBI, CIA. Squeaky Fromme. official innocence. You can see didn't drink or smoke. He was When he emerged from obscurity about the load) and wore a mink Sara Moore—the list goes on and more flesh in a high school biology violently opposed to drugs. though Into that tneAncable freeze-frame mat. high-heel shoes, and nothing on. Who the hell wrote this script, clam now than you could at any of he maintained his own high energy that Joins all of our minds to rise. The first thing she did at and where will it end' A dozen the joints on The Strip in 1963. but level by popping Preludin—an Dallas. Jack Ruby, a bald-headed customs was open the door and fall years of violence. shock treach- that wasn't the point Jack Ruby upper--and it was rumored that he little man who wanted above all ant, revealing more than the cus- ery, and paranoia, and I date it all ran what he considered a "decent" operated a personal clearing house else to make it big, had his back to toms official expected. That was back to that insane weekend In place. a "high-class" place. a the camera- for mob drug runners. He was arse of Jada's great pleasures, Dallas and Jack Ruby—the one place that Dallas could view with involved In shady financial 1 can tell you about Jack Ruby, driving around Dallas in her mink essential link in the chain, the man pride. "Punks" and "characters" schemes, and the IRS was on his and stout Dallas, and If necessary coat and high heels, her orange who changed an Isolated act into a who wandered in by mistake were back. A swindler who called him- remind you that human life Is hair piled high and the coat flaring trend. as likely as not to leave with an self Harry Sinclair, Jr., told Secret meetly fragile and the holy litany open. It was a better act than the Jack Ruhylaisd come a long way impression of Jack Ruby's bat Service agents that Ruby backed of ambition and success takes as one Ruby paid for. from the ghettos of Chicago. ar so where their nose used to be. hint In a bet-and-run operation. warn' people to hail as It dues to Ruby planted the story that Sada he liked to think. He described the Cops and newspapermen, that's Ruby supplied cash and introduced heaven. But someone else Wan trained in ballet, had a college will Carousel Club as a "J—ing classy who Ruby wanted In his place. Sinclair to likely virtims. iii. L Reprinted from Texas Monthly. degree In psychology. was a de. Joint" and patrons who challenged Dallas cops drank there, regularly, Hunt was supposed to have been Coyyrtght r 1975 Texas Monthly. seendant of John :Quincy Adams. Ms opinion sametiraee get thrown and none of them ever paid for a one., Li Sinclair min, he'd Collect; and a granddaughter of Pavlova. -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.