Jack Ruby Quotes
I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.
United States, Warren Commission. Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. 5. United States Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 211.
His comment was particularly critical since he had been an early supporter of the military takeover of the government. See {595250}.
In contemporary American terms this notion is usually couched in terms of all consumers paying higher prices because of credit card frauds, or all airline travelers must submit to searches because of the terrorists.
Unfortunately, his close successors did not share Alexander’s surprisingly modern view.
Referring to the Serbian atrocities in Bosnia:
There were many citizens who were very dubious about Dutero. In addition to his wildly flamboyant oratory, he advocated the exta judicial killing o suspected drug dealers, and as a mayor had actually personally murdered a few as an example for the police who were at first reluctant.
Jack Leon Ruby was an American nightclub owner. He fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with both the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the incumbent United States President, and the murder of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit. A Dallas jury found Ruby guilty of murdering Oswald, and he was sentenced to death.
