Word: murder
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Skeptics will always wonder whether Jack Ruby's televised murder of Presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was the meticulously designed act of a conspiratorial network or - as the Warren Commission concluded - simply another irrational element in a tragic tangle of non sequiturs surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy...
Ruby himself said that the moment of the killing was a "blur," and he gave a madman's mixture of reasons for the murder: because of his grief at the loss of the President ("I loved that man"), because he did not want Jackie Kennedy to be forced to return to Dallas for Oswald's trial, because he had read a "heartbreaking letter" to Caroline Kennedy in a newspaper that morning. At one point he blurted to cops and federal agents after his arrest: "I guess I just had to show the world a Jew has guts...
That remark was ruled inadmissible evidence in his murder trial. For that matter, a great deal of the murky world of Jack Ruby was obscured in hearsay and uncertainty. The Warren Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February...
...Churchill, whose writings were "gaseous and overwritten," became a "kind of totem." In his old age, he was "produced as totems are, to keep up tribal morale." As for liberalism, said Muggeridge, it is "really just a death wish. We liberals are so made that anyone who wants to murder us is a hero and anyone foolish enough to be on our side is a villain...
...anybody knows, a classic defense in cases of murder, rape and aggravated assault is insanity. But what about white-collar crimes like tax dodging...