Before I investigated the case, nightclub owner Jack Ruby's murder of Oswald—62 years ago today—was why I thought there was likely a conspiracy in the JFK assassination. It took a couple of years of research to disabuse me of that idea. I uncovered the serendipity that independently put Ruby and Oswald at the crossroads of history.

One of the interviews that Trisha Posner and I did in 1992 was with Jim Leavelle, memorialized forever as the tall police detective with the large white Stetson hat, looking on in shock as Ruby shot Oswald. Leavelle thought that Trisha and I might get a better idea of the case if he put us in the handcuffs that he had on Oswald that fateful day :-)

Below is a 🔗 to my 2022 article "Just Terrible Strange," a timeline of the odd morning that led to Oswald's murder. By killing Oswald, Ruby insured unfortunately that conspiracy theories would flourish forever in the #jfkassassination.