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Ruby Viewed as Sensitive to Jewish
Identity in Warren Commission Report

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish
aspects of the background of Jack
Ruby, convicted killer of Lee Har-
vey Oswald, were reviewed in an
examination of Ruby's personality
and biography in the Warren Com-
mission's report on the assassina-
tion of President John F. Ken-
nedy. The commission concluded
. that Ruby acted spontaneously as
an individual. It ruled out all
rumors of alleged conspiracy-
found conclusively that Ruby and
Oswald were not acquainted, and
that each acted entirely indepen-
dent of the other.
Ruby contended that his Jewish
beliefs motivated his thinking and
actions. He was shown by the com-
mission's findings to have had a
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fought with persons making de-
rogatory remarks about his ethnic
origin. The evidence also indicates
that he was deeply upset that an
advertisement insulting President
Kennedy appeared above a Jewish-
sounding name."
Examining Ruby's political back-
ground, the commission said "as
a young man, Ruby participated in
attacks upon meetings of the Ger-
man-American Bund in Chicago,
but the assaults were the efforts
of pool hall associates from his
predominantly Jewish neighbor-
hood, rather than the work of any
political group. His only other
known activities which had any
political flavor possessed stronger
overtones of financial self-inter-
est."
Ruby changed his name, along
with his brothers, from Rubenstein
to Ruby, partly to avoid a "Jewish
'name" for business reasons. Ruby
gave Temple . Shearith Israel of
Dallas $110 shortly before the as-
sassination. The money was appar-
ently for High Holy Day tickets.
(In Dallas, it was reported by
Ruby's sister that when he learned
about the Warren Commission
findings, he "just 'didn't compre-
hend it . . . The' things I say to
him don't register," she said.
(Mrs. Grant added that her
brother was "inhibited with hallu-
cinations about the Jews being
persecuted.")

life-long record of volatile re-
sponses to anti-Semites, - many
fights arising from anti-Semitism,
and participation in street fights
against t h e German - American
Bund before World War II. Ac-
cording to Ruby, prior to the shoot-
ing of Oswald, he watched a rabbi
deliver on television a moving
eulogy of President Kennedy. Ruby
said the rabbi's words "created a
tremendous emotional feeling for
me .. . I was carried away."
The commission reported that
"reared in the Jewish faith, Jack
Ruby was not especially devout."
Rabbi Hillel Silverman, whose Con-
servative temple Ruby favored, re-.,
ported that. when Ruby's father
died in 1958, Ruby came to serv-
ices twice daily for the prescribed
period of 11 months to recite the
traditionally memorial prayer.
Ruby normally attended services
only on the Jewish High Holy
Days, and he was quite unfamiliar
with the Hebrew language."
Another commission finding was
that "Ruby was apparently -some-
what sensitive to his identity as a
Jew. He forbade his comedians to
tell stories (in his night clubs)
directed at Jews or Jewish prac-
tices and, on several occasions, he

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reporting on his talks with French
military officials and armament
producers, said it was "only nat-
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should be to France in view of
France's "special place" among
friendly nations. France has been
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Israel Chief of Staff Tells
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 2, 1964-3

NEW YORK (JTA)—The role of
Israel in aiding developing nations
will be the focus of a Twentieth
Century Fund study exploring the
whole question of mutual assist-
ance among developing nations, it
was announced here.

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several days of talks and with
whom he discussed various mili-
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