Word: bromberger
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CHARNEY V. BROMBERG...
...bulk of the testimony at the bail hearing came from defense witnesses who have examined Ruby since his imprisonment. Chief among them were Yale Psychologist Roy Schafer and New York Psychiatrist Walter Bromberg. According to Schafer, Ruby has an IQ of 109-meaning that he tests higher in intelligence than 73% of the population. But he also suffers from brain damage that results in a kind of epilepsy which produces blackouts and loss of self-control. "There were frequent occasions of mild confusion," said Schafer, describing the 9½-hour series of tests that he gave Ruby. "His speech...
...Psychiatrist Bromberg interviewed members of Ruby's family as well as Ruby, constructed a vivid picture of a fellow baffled since childhood...
...father was a "heavy drinker"; his mother was committed to a mental hospital. In brawls, he twice received severe head injuries, once from a pistol handle. He lost the tip of his left index finger after somebody bit it to the bone. "He thinks he's tough," said Bromberg. "He is a fighter-geared to attack all his life." But he is also subject to "basic emotional instability so severe that occasionally he breaks out crying for no apparent reason...
...Bromberg noted that though Ruby telephoned his sister after Kennedy was killed and said, "I will have to leave Dallas-Dallas is ruined," he cheered up considerably by hanging around police headquarters after Oswald's capture. He felt "like a big guy, being in with the police." Ruby's feeling toward Kennedy, explained Bromberg, approached "a love that passed beyond a rational appreciation of a great man, coming out of his unconscious." His killing of Oswald "was in response to an irresistible impulse. His knowledge of right and wrong was obliterated at the time of the crime...