On This Day: Jack Ruby found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, John F Kennedy's alleged assassin
"March 14, 1964: Just four months after John F. Kennedy was shot dead, Jack Ruby was found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of the young U.S. President.
Two days after Kennedy had been shot while riding in the back seat of an uncovered limousine, Oswald was in Dallas Police Headquarters surrounded by a crowd of reporters.
Emerging from the crowd Ruby fired his revolver into Oswald's abdomen, fatally wounding him. The murder had been broadcast live and been witnessed by millions of television viewers..."
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