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Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; April 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was an American nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald when he fatally shot him on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with both the murder of John F. Kennedy, the incumbent United States president, and the murder of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit. A Dallas jury found Ruby guilty of murdering Oswald and sentenced him to death.
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Ruby/Oswald Pulitzer Print & Documents
Original Pulitzer Prize winning print of Jack Ruby as he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Infamous image captured by Bob Jackson for The Dallas Times Herald from the estate of Herald editor, Felix McKnight. From a 2004 Dallas Morning News article, “…For Robert H. ‘Bob’ Jackson, then a 29-year-old photographer for the Dallas Times Herald, taking a picture of Oswald’s murder meant winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1964…Felix McKnight, co-publisher and editor of the Times Herald, says Mr. Jackson’s negative was overwhelming. ‘I had been a Pulitzer juror three times,’ says Mr. McKnight…He shouted to the troops: ‘We’ve got a winner here! We’re gonna win one!’…” Incredible original silver gelatin print directly from the estate of Felix McKnight measures approximately 26″ x 22″ matted. Photo is mounted onto matting. Accompanied by dozens of telegrams, letters and newspaper clippings, all owned by McKnight, related to JFK’s assassination and the Oswald murder. Also included is the original frame from McKnight. Excellent condition. Sold for $12,500.
Lee Harvey Oswald autograph letter signed ”Lee xxx”, used in the Warren Commission’s investigation as exhibit #312. Dated 20 December 1961, letter was sent from Minsk, Russia where Oswald had defected, and is addressed to the assassin’s mother, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald. Uncorrected for Oswald’s characteristic poor spelling, letter reads in full, ”Dear Mother Recieved today the thrid package of books and magazines in the last three weeks thanks a lot I really do apprieciate all of your help. I had better give you my new address they just changed the name of this street so the address is Ulisita Kommset Ulisita Kommunidstecheski House 4 Apt 24. We still don’t have any word about our vista [visa]. The American Embassy in Moscow wrote me a letter [photocopy of the letter, Warren Commission Exhibit No. 241, is included] and stated they think the Russians have to let us go. I shall keep you informed. That’s about all for now, Lee XXX P.S Marina sends her love and thanks for the sewing book.” The photocopy of the 14 December 1961 U.S. Embassy in Moscow letter included reads in part, ”…It is the Embassy’s view that, since you are not considered a Soviet citizen by the authorities in this country, you are entitled to receive a Soviet exit visa upon presentation of valid foreign national passport…It further appears to me that your right to an exit visa will not be affected by your acceptance of an extension of your present Soviet documentation, which is after all, prima facie evidence that you are not regarded here as a Soviet citizen…” Five days after this letter was written, Soviet authorities indeed granted exit visas to Oswald and his wife. From the collection of Dr. John K. Lattimer who was the first nongovernmental medical specialist to review evidence in Kennedy’s assassination. He pencils ”JKL 92 68” at the lower edge of the blank verso of the blank integral leaf. Measures 5.5” x 8” on one sheet of ruled paper. Fine. Sold for $12,500.
Lee Harvey Oswald signed application to Albert Schweitzer College — an application which he used as an elaborate ruse to enter Europe and then defect to the Soviet Union. A self-proclaimed Marxist, Oswald laid his plan for defection under the false pretense of enrolling at Albert Schweitzer College located in Switzerland. Once on the European continent, however, he bypassed Switzerland altogether, making his way to Finland and then onto the U.S.S.R. Application is dated 19 March 1959, with portions filled out by Oswald in his hand, including his full name, his age (20), other languages he spoke (Russian), and his exact address at the time. Signed ”Lee H. Oswald”. Document, measuring 8.25” x 4.5” on one page, has a chip to upper left and a hole at lower left, tape residue along split portions of document and minor creasing. Type and ink remain bold and very legible. Fascinating document providing insight into the man who would throw the nation into mourning less than four years later. Sold for $10,541.
Rare copy of the Beauregard Junior High School yearbook from 1955, signed two times by its graduate, Lee Harvey Oswald. Yearbook for the New Orleans school belonged to James Pritchett, one of Oswald’s classmates. Oswald signs in two places: “Lee Oswald” underneath his printed name on page 23, and “Lee Oswald” on the back cover, both in blue ballpoint. Lot also includes Pritchett’s graduation cap, signed by nearly all the students including Oswald, who signs “Lee Oswald” in green ballpoint along one of the edges, next to a staple. Yearbook measures 6″ x 9″. Two center pages detached from staple, and overall light wear with a few moisture spots to covers. Very good condition. Cloth cap measures 11.125″ square. Some toning and fading to signatures, overall very good. With University Archives COAs for all three signatures. Sold for $7,311.
Jack Ruby Fourteen-Page Autograph Manuscript Signed — Written From His Jail Cell While Sentenced to Death
Autograph manuscript signed “Jack Ruby” in pencil on the first page of fourteen, accompanied by a notarized statement by Jack’s brother Earl Ruby on 22 December 1992, that this is an “autographed, unpublished, manuscript written by my brother Jack Ruby from jail at my request after Jack was convicted of murder and sentenced to death…The manuscript was to be used by Jack’s lawyers if a new trial was granted to establish his character as not being capable of pre-meditated murder and that his act of November 24, 1963 was spontaneous and born of anguish and grief. A new trial was granted, but Jack died before the new trial could commence.” In part, “…Here are the facts about Jack Ruby!! I spent three years working with the newspapers securing subscriptions for the Call-Bulletin and San Francisco Examiner at times having my own crew. These were depression years 1934-1937. Came back to Chicago my home in 1937. Became a field organizer for Local 20467 my salary 22.50 per wk. The Wagner Labor Act had just become a law in 1937, and thought this is what the country was for, legitimate organized labor. My checks never had gone over $22.50. I left the union the latter 1940 part of 1939-Voluntarily…” 4″ x 6″ pages in excellent condition with very legible writing. Sold for $3,599.
Marguerite Oswald autograph letter signed, written on the verso of a typed statement by her regarding problems with the Warren Report, specifically that her son Lee Harvey Oswald never received a trial for the assassination of John F. Kennedy and therefore should be referred to as the alleged assassin. Dated 2 December 1966, Oswald writes to three brothers, Bob, Richard and Ronald Harris: ”Your father was a most kind and considerate man to me while I was a guest of Radio-T.V. WOAI. I feel strongly that he sensed what happened to my son could possibly happen to you boys (his sons). I feel sure also that he would take the position I have taken in our America – ‘A Man is innocent until proven guilty.’ Know you will grow up to be fine young men. Please remember me in your prayers. / Marguerite Oswald / mother of Lee Harvey Oswald”. Letter measures 8.5” x 11”. Folds, else near fine. Accompanied by envelope addressed by Marguerite Oswald to Gary Harris in San Antonio, Texas, postmarked 22 December 1966. Also accompanied by a newspaper article with her writing, including ”need help”. Sold for $3,575.
M. Nick McDonald handwritten signed account of his experience arresting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder. Text reads in part, ”…I went to the exit curtains to the left of the movie screen…[Oswald] was at the rear on the main floor, three rows from the partition of the lobby, quietly sitting in the second chair from the right center aisle. He was staring straight ahead watching the movie…a Friday matinee showing of double bill features, ”Cry of Battle” and ”War is Hell”…I made my decision to try an act of diversion. I searched two men seated in the middle…I started walking unhurriedly up the aisle toward him. Slowly, deliberately, I was closing the distance between us….his empty hands were folded in his lap. As he calmly looked up at me, I spoke with a strong voice of authority, ‘Get on your feet’! He realized he had waited too long to make a free and open move of aggression. He stood slowly, as if in slow motion, facing the movie screen, blinking and turning his head to me…I stared into his icy cold, steel blue eyes…Without a command, he started bringing up both hands and in a voice of resignation, he spoke softly, ‘Well, it’s all over now’! I though he was giving up…Suddenly his left hand made a tight fist and it exploded between my eyes…knocked my head back…I felt him pulling a pistol from underneath his shirt…He brought the pistol up to my chest, I grabbed for it with my left hand and grasped his pistol over the cylinder and hammer with all the strength I could muster. I could feel the hammer glide under my hand, as he pulled the trigger…I stood rigid waiting for the bullet to penetrate my chest…I pivoted his pistol to the side and away from my body and realized I was not shot. With a clutched fist, I hot him over his left eye, knocking him into seat. With a lunge of desperation, I fell on top of him to cover him with my body…to smother his movements. I was in a desperate struggle to gain possession of his pistol…I somehow managed to grasp the handle of his pistol with my right hand and jerked it away from him. I shoved the muzzle into his stomach…I pulled the pistol away and handed it to a detective standing in the aisle. I called out to my fellow Officers, ‘I’ve got him!!!!!!’ Officer M. ‘Nick’ McDonald / – Captor of Oswald – / 11-22-63”. Document runs 6pp. on 6 sheets of plain white stationery, measuring 8.5” x 11”. Stapled and creased at the upper left corner. Near fine. Sold for $3,000.
Nick McDonald Autograph Manuscript Signed on the Capture of Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a former U.S. Marine who assassinated United States president John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 for truancy, during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as “emotionally disturbed”, due to a lack of normal family life. Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. About 45 minutes after assassinating Kennedy, Oswald shot and killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit on a local street. He then slipped into a movie theater, where he was arrested for Tippit’s murder. Oswald was charged with the assassination of Kennedy, but he denied responsibility for the killing, stating that he was a “patsy”. Two days later, Oswald was fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. Nick McDonald, was the policeman who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theater after President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Here is a manuscript on Lee Harvey Oswald’s capture. Sold for $1,600.
James R. Leavelle signed photo of Jack Ruby shooting and killing Lee Harvey Oswald. Leavelle writes along the bottom margin of the 14” x 11” photo, ”I was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby in Police basement 11/24/63 / Homicide Detective James Leavelle”. Interestingly, Leavelle later stated that he spoke to Oswald that morning about the possibility that he would be shot at, to which Oswald reportedly replied, ”Nobody’s going to shoot at me.” Satin-finish photo is near fine. Sold for $500.
A gripping portrayal of the final moments leading up to and including the capture of President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, as told by the four officers who took Oswald into custody. This souvenir document dated 22 November 1963 is addressed to Dallas Chief of Police J.E. Curry and signed by all four arresting officers: Gerald Hill, Ray Hawkins, Paul Bentley and M.N. McDonald. Letter reads in part, ”…we received information via the police radio that an officer had been shot…There was a pool of blood about two feet north of the squad car in the street…we received additional information that the suspect was in the Texas Theater…Officer McDonald…observed the arrested party sitting in the third seat. As he approached this suspect, the suspect said, ‘This is it’, and sprang from the seat. Officer McDonald began to grapple with the suspect and the suspect got his hand on a gun that was stuck inside his shirt. As the officer and the suspect wrestled for the gun, the suspect pulled the trigger once and the gun snapped, but did not fire…after a struggle in which the suspect resisted violently he was disarmed and handcuffed…” Two page document on two sheets measures 8.5” x 11”. Near fine condition. With additional page showing the four officers signing the document. Sold for $375.
Complete 25 November 1963 edition of ”The Dallas Morning News”. Newspaper covers the fatal shooting of John F. Kennedy’s accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. All 4 sections are included. Near fine. Sold for $313.
Dallas Newspaper Reporting on the Conviction of Jack Ruby
Dallas newspaper reporting the guilty verdict in Jack Ruby’s murder trial. 15 March 1964 edition of the ”Dallas Times Herald” announces the burlesque club manager was sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Paper spreads news of Ruby’s attorneys’ plans to appeal, and reports on Ruby’s demeanor and that of his brother and sister when the verdict was read. Trial was the first to be televised, as was the shooting itself. Runs 26pp. Light toning and separation to fold intersection, else near fine. Sold for $313.
25 November 1963 issue of ”The Dallas Morning News” covering Jack Ruby’s killing of Lee Harvey Oswald. Two days after Oswald was accused, front page headline announces, ”CLUB OWNER KILLS OSWALD” above a giant photo of Ruby pointing a gun at Oswald. A moment later Ruby shot Oswald dead at the Dallas police station. An article about the night club owner is featured within. Includes 20pp. Section 1, and 12pp. Section 4. Section 3 of this edition (omitted) was devoted exclusively to Thanksgiving cooking. Toning, scattered tears and chipping to folds and mostly detached upper and lower halves of front page. Interior fully intact. Overall good. Sold for $313.
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Jack Ruby multi page manuscript signed written in jail