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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 25, 1963
Oswald's Killer Known as a Dude
By Don Smith
United Press International
DALLAS-Jack Ruby, a Chicago street brawler, wanted the big time and came to Dallas to make it as a dealer in legal sex.
He had a record as a fighter, a bouncer in his own clubs, a fast man with his fists who occasionally got picked up on charges of carrying a concealed weapon; But none of his friends ever thought of him in the role he cast for himself—avenger of the martyrned Presid
BORN JACK LEON Rubenstein March 19, 1911 in the ghetto of Chicago, he became a street fighter and smalltime gambler. He liked to tell people in Dallas he left Chicago because of run-ins with Chicago hoodlums.
He was a new man in Dallas, down to his name. He changed it to Jack Ruby. His sister, Mrs. Eva L. Grant, ran a bar in Dallas and in 1948, he came to the Texas city to work for her, as a sometime bartender and bouncer.
zlesh came next, and Ruby was the dealer.
FLOE OPENED THE SECOND floor walk-up Carousel Club, a
small, dimly-lit room with the traditional burlesque theater runway, boom-boom music and bumps and grinds.
He became a glad-hander. "Come and see me," he would say and he passed out "Annie Oakleys" freely.
In Chicago, he was remembered as a promoter with a stock of gimmicks for turning a fast buck.
Despite his open friendliness, he became known in Dallas, too, as a man with short-fuse temper and a quick fist. But he went out of his way to make friends with policemen.
ONCE, SAID AN ATTORNEY,
he rushed to the side of a patrol-
man being beaten by a group of
thugs and fought them off "like a tiger."
Ruby had his first brush with the law in Chicago when he tried to crash the Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney fight in 1927. He was proud of the fact he was a clean puncher, a toe-to-toe battler who would not quit.
Ticket scalping and gate crashing seem to have been his only troubles with the Chicago law.
D. Roosevelt and would "sock anyone disparaging F.D.R.", according to Chicago associates.
HE ALSO WAS ardent in his praise of John F. Kennedy.
He was an admirer of Franklin
In Dallas in 1949, he was picked up for disturbing the peace.
In 1953 and 1954 he was picked up for investigation. Somebody said he had a concealed weapon. There were charges of violating the dance hall ordinance and the state liquor laws. Ruby rode through them all.
A bachelor, and a dude, he liked to talk of dating stripteasers and chorus girls. He dressed the part
IN DOWTOWN DALLAS where Ivy League is the uniform, Jack Ruby was stricly Broadway. He wore flashy suits, flashy rings and cufflinks. He covered his bald spot with a sharp snap-brim fedora.
As a flesh dealer he was in the market for new talent.
He ran an "amateur night" for would-be strippers in his Club Carousel. At his Vagas Club on the fringe of downtown Dallas he featured dancing and attracted the audiences with advertisements that read:
"Brother Bear's Band (Dallas"
Newest and Hottest)" The ads stressed a 3 a.m. floor show.
FOR THE CAROUSEL the comon was more earthy;
Five Exotics - Kathy Kay, Little Lynn, Joy Dale, Marilyn Moone, Felissa Prell, on three large runways. These were the strippers.
Ruby's life was geared to the night. At one point, he ran a "School for Strrippers." He said he had to teach the "new talent" because there was a shortage of such dancers.
RUBY LIVED WITH a roommate, George Senator. Rough with men and arrogant with women, he was kind to animals.
He kept four dogs. At one time, he neither smoked nor drank. Lately he had been smoking cigars.
As a practiced gate-crasher, Ruby yesterday morning was present in the City Hall when newsmen were permitted to talk to Lee Harvey Oswald. He just walked in, according to Justice of the Peace David L. Johnston, and handed Johnston a card that read: "I'm Jack Ruby—Carousel."
Johnston said Ruby told him:
"Come by and see me some time."
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