Originally posted by Mike's Bodyguard:
Don M, Ruby was a half assed associate of people who had contacts with the Chicago mob.
In reality he was a scatterbrained man who was desparate for attention, and had thought he would be hailed as a hero for shooting Oswald.
He contacted cancer in jail about the time he was up for appeal. Many theorists belive this was given to him by the "Conspritors"
Well said, Mike's Bodyguard! As a club owner, Ruby would have had some contact with Mafia operatives who were involved in supplying his and other strip joints with entertainers. Probably some of them visited his club. But, in his only major contact with a Mob-connected figure, Ruby and his brother turned down an offer to get in on a drug deal. The Dallas police questioned Ruby about the deal after the Mob operative was arrested, and were satisfied with Ruby’s account. Ruby did have a string of arrests, but all of them were associated with his club business: assaulting patrons and employees, various licensing and tax violations. None involved organized crime.
Ruby was far closer to the Dallas police, who had life-and-death control over his all-important liquor and cabaret licenses—the Warren Commission said he had personal contacts with about 50 Dallas cops, whom he frequently comped at his club. He was a lifelong borderline nut case, and he went completely round the bend after the JFK assassination.
