50 Years Ago Today: JACK RUBY: Lead up to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (A synopsis from Case Closed)

Jack Ruby got about four hours of sleep after getting to bed at dawn.  When he finally got up, he watched a memorial service for JFK on TV, and told his roommate, George Senator, that it was "a tremendous emotional feeling for me" that JFK had fought for the U.S. in the Navy, only to "come back to his own country to be shot in the back."

While tens of thousands paid tribute to JFK in Washington, Ruby closed his nightclub for the weekend to pay personal respect.  (He thought it disgraceful that his nightclub competitors, the Weinsteins, stayed open).  Ruby spent much of morning talking to friends about the "terrible" assassination, as well as sharing his belief that some of the anti-Kennedy sentiment in Dallas was to "stir up anti-Jewish feelings."
In the afternoon, he visited Dealey Plaza and spent some time looking at the memorial of flowers and candles that had spontaneously spread along Elm Street.  Wes Wise, a KRLF newsman, ran into Ruby and "noticed tears in his eyes."  Ruby left w…