There is some evidence that Ruby's actions were on a whim, as he left his favorite dog, Sheba, in the car before shooting Oswald.

(In the first minutes after shooting Oswald he must have thought he'd been right; when the crowd gathered across the street from the city jail learned what he had done, they broke into loud applause.)

The next day, Ruby goes to the Dallas county jail where Oswald is being transferred to stand trial, but comes out empty handed as Ruby shot Oswald fatally, avenging Kennedy.

Ruby's testimony that he just happened to be on hand in time to shoot Oswald is called "preposterous."

Focusing on the small-time hood (Danny Aiello, the pizza parlour boss of Do The Right Thing ) who shot Oswald, this winds up as a daft romance.

Ruby shot Oswald at 11:21 A.M., approximately five minutes after Ruby left the nearby Western Union office, where at 11:17 A.M. he had wired funds to one of his nightclub employees.

Two days later, Aynesworth was talked into going to the Dallas Police Headquarters by his wife and the saw Ruby lunge and shoot Oswald.

Melvin Belli, the San Francisco lawyer representing Ruby, had prepared an insanity defense, claiming that a rare form of epilepsy had prompted Ruby to shoot Oswald.

Barklage then shot and killed Oswald, thwarting the escape.

On Nov. 24, 1963, Ruby shot Oswald as he was being led from a Dallas police station.