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Local Attorney, Psychiatrist Trying to Save Ruby;
Find Him a Sick Man, Victim of Anti-Semitism
A psychotic, who foresees the
roundup and systematic slaughter
of U.S. Jewry—that is the picture
of Jack Ruby drawn by a local
psychiatrist who has talked with
the slayer of President Kennedy's
accused assassin.
In a copyrighted story by Free
Press writer Don Beck, Dr.
Emanuel Tanay expresses his con-
viction that Ruby is a sick man,
that he was insane at the time of
Lee Harvey Oswald's - murder, that
he is disturbed enough to take
his own life in the Dallas County
jail cell where he has been since
the Nov. 24 shooting.
Dr. Tanay, former assistant
director of Receiving Hospital's
psychiatric department, was
brought into the -ease at the rec-
ommendation of Detroit attorney
and investor Sol Dann.
Dann volunteered earlier this
year to act as a legal counselor
to Earl Ruby, Jack brother, who
lives in Southfield, in the efforts
to save the life of the accused.
According to Dr. Tanay, Ruby
is convinced that "they" are out
to get the Jews. A preoccupation
with his own Jewishness is an in-
tensification of a mental attitude
he carried through life, Dr. Tanay
said.• Ruby's father was an alco-
holic and abandoned the home
when Ruby was 10. The children
were reared as virtual orphans
when their mother was committed
to a mental institution.
Ruby thus developed a sense of
apartness, doubly so as the mem-
ber of a minority. "He was pug-
nacious, always ready to fight,
usually to prove that the stereo-
type of the Jew as a passive vic-
tim was false."
His refusal to permit Jewish
jokes in his Dallas nightclubs was
extended to cover jokes about
"defenders" of Jews, such as
President Kennedy. The Catholic
President, as an example of what
a member of the minority could
do, was an "honorary Jew" to
Ruby.
When the president was killed,
Ruby "was in a state bordering on
frenzy."
"Suddenly, the anti-Semitism he
believed himself surrounded by
was out in the open. A champion
and defender of the Jews had been
slain. The purge was beginning,
in Ruby's mind."
Ruby had no prior intention
of killing Oswald, Dr. Tanay said.
He always carried a gun (except
when he went to synagogue), and
when he saw the crowd surround-
ing the door of police headquar-
ters, went over to look. Dr.
Tanay said it was an act of com-
pulsion that made Ruby pull out
his revolver and shoot Oswald
as the latter was being taken
from headquarters.
Ruby's psychotic state, said the
psychiatrist. is primarily a result
of -his present environment. "He
is like a caged animal." Ruby has
tried committing suicide several
times, and "the longer he is in that
cell, the better the chances are."
Dr. Tanay said Ruby refuses to
discuss the "plot" against Jews
except with those he trusts. One of
these is Supreme Court Justice
Earl. Warren, a "defender," who is
heading the special commission
probing the assassination.
authorities
Dallas County
"honestly believe Ruby is faking,"
Dr. Tanay thinks. He said the dif-
lemma facing Ruby is that if he is
found sane, he will be executed;
his family wants to save him, but
they don't want him to be insane.
Attorney Dann long has be-
lieved that Ruby was a sick man
and that it was wrong for the
jury to find Ruby guilty of first
degree murder. He suggested
that anti-Semitism played a part
in the trial.
In a memorandom brief, Dann
said it "should be the chief con-
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Friday, July 17, 1964
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cern and organized efforts of
everyone, not necessarily -to ob-
tain justice for Jack Ruby alone,
but to expose the hate groups, and
correct the jury's erroneous find-
ings and unconscionable verdict
that affects all Americans and
world Jewry."
"Since the tremendous power
and resources of the United States
could not protect the life of Presi-
dent Kennedy against the bigotry
and hate in Dallas, Texas," Dann
continued, "how can anyone ex-
pect the Ruby family with their
small and limited means, to carry
on expensive and extensive litiga-
tion to protect the life of Jack Semites like Rockwell and shame to Texas and he ought to
Gerald L. K. Smith are openly be killed quick as possible 'cause
Ruby, from such hate and preju-
and primarily supported by such
dice."
the longer he lives the longer the
Dann made reference to deri- Birchites as the Murchesons and President's assassination is kept
Mr. Hunt, one of the wealthiest alive.' When I said that it was
sive remarks about Ruby by the
prosecution and said it concealed oil men in Texas. (Such men too Oswald and not he that killed the
often exert their influence even President, they added with em-
from the jury material evidence
about his emotional and mental over courts). The headquarters phasis that 'Oswald was just a
of many of these un-American maniac who didn't know what he
disturbances as a boy.
The attorney pointed out that organizations against Catholics, was doing. Anyway, he is dead
there were no Catholics, Jews or Jews and Negroes are in Texas,
now, but this Ruby man is still
from where a large part of anti- alive so we got to kill 'im.' "
Negroes on the jury and suggested
Semitic literature emanates."
the jury acted with malice.
Ruby lived in a "contaminated
He lambasted those Jews who
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anti-Semitic atmosphere," Dann
are against raising the anti-Semi-
charged in the 35-page brief.
tic problem "lest it disturb their
He said in Texas vicious anti-
(false sense of) security. Even
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tice.' "
Dann said he talked to several
people in Texas "who said to me
long before Kennedy came to Dal- when I brought up the Ruby ques-
tion that 'This Jew Ruby' brought
las, Leslie writes:
"The assassination itself, the de-
mented act of a human outcast, is
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pected .something to happen. So
logical that the shock and horror
of the first hours were reactions
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him a man who "seeks identity in
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a world which refuses it." Gen.
Walker's background and politi-
cal philosophy are alluded to, and
in reference to the rightists' ad-
vertisement in the Dallas News,
signed by Bernard Weissman, Les-
lie tells about the probe that was
instituted by the American Jewish
Committee which "theorized that
a Jewish name was attached to it
to escape the frequent charges of
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by accident because no • one
has stopped them." He does state
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What Sort of Community Is Dallas?
Writer Explores 'Disturbed City'
The question of anti-Semitism
has been raised by the Ruby case.
Jack Ruby himself constantly
speaks of his plight as part of a
Jewish plot. In his sensational
story of the city where the Ken-
nedy tragedy occurred, "Dallas—
Public and Private," issued by
Grossman Publishers (125A E.
19th, NY 3), Warren Leslie hints
that prejudice is unlimited in the
Texas town.
Leslie has lived in Dallas for 17
years. A native New Yorker, he
got his first reportorial job in Dal-
las after graduating from Yale. In
the past 11 years, during which
he also wrote two novels, he was
manager of Neiman-Marcus, one
of the largest Texas specialty
stores, associated wth a large Dal-
las concern, and now is back in
New York.
His book is an'indictment of an
entire community, although he
does say that "there are many
things about Dallas to like and
respect." He immediately adds:
"But it is a disturbed city in a
disturbed nation, and the reasons
for these disturbances will not
vanish overnight."
Since Dallas' disturbance is
part of the nation's disturbed
state, a review must wonder
whether the Leslie story could
be applied to all of us. Because
Leslie does say that while his
book is a Texas story "it is also
an American story," and he as-
serts, describing the community
where President Kennedy was
murdered:
"To place a local guilt and exon-
erate the rest of the country is as
naive as some of the people of Dal-
las have themselevs been during
the years when the storm clouds
were banking. The forces of vio-
lence exist everywhere. Unchal-
lenged, unrepudiated, they grOw
and fester, gaining in confidence,
attracting new strength."
This being the case, why select
Dallas as the most noteworthy
symbol of our disturbance? Leslie
declares that "it is an extraordin-
ary thing when an American city
does not trust itself to receive the
President of the United States in
dignity," and he charges that Dal-
las did not trust itself and that
that there were fears about the
Kennedy visit.
Leslie's posed questions in-
clude: Why were there three
murders in Dallas that weekend
when two were preventable?
Why were Adlai Stevenson and
Lyndon Johnson molested in
Dallas? Why was Dallas chosen
as his home by Maj. Gen. Edwin
A. Walker? Why were extra pre-
cautions necessary in the prepar-
ations for the Kennedy visit?
Why was a right-wing extremist
advertisement published by the
Dallas News on the day of Ken-
nedy's visit? He even puts his
questions in this form: "Is Dal-
las a part of the United States? •
Or is it some savage country of
its own?"
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LONDON (JTA)—The Guardian
reported that the Russian-Jewish
poet, Josef Brodsky, who was sen-
tenced last March to five years'
hard labor by a Leningrad court
on the charge of being "a para-
site," has been released.
The harsh sentence evoked
strong protests on the part of
Soviet intellectuals and writers
who claimed that Brodsky had, in
reality, been punished for "anti-
Soviet" attitudes.
Copies of the appeal voiced by
the writers on behalf of the young
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