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Article: Jack Ruby's Gun Ends Up in Court;Brother of Man Who Killed Kennedy's Assassin Seeks Ownership
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 8, 1989
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The gun, the infernal gun, has been sitting in a safety deposit
box for 22 years.
The old man who has kept it all these years goes to the bank
every now and then to check on it. Sometimes he takes other people
who just want to have a look at the black .38-caliber Colt Cobra
pistol that killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
Jack Ruby used the gun to kill the man who assassinated President
John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. And America watched it all on
television. There he was, the stocky guy with the Cavanagh hat,
lunging toward Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police
Department. Then came the shot, the looks of horror on the faces of
the policemen who surrounded Oswald. It is a scene seared into ...