Danny Fingeroth, Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin
Monday, November 20, 2023 @ Aaron Family Jewish Community Center
7-8:30pm | $18 in advance; $25 at the door
https://bit.ly/DannyFingeroth_JackRuby
There is a pre-program reception beginning at 6:15pm
Almost exactly 60 years following the assassination of President John F Kennedy, we bring you a new biography about Jack Ruby, the mysterious businessman to took it upon himself to end the life of Kennedy’s assailant, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin, by Danny Fingeroth, asks and strives to answer “Who was Jack Ruby?” and “How did he come to be in that spot on that day?”
An excerpt from the text’s description:
“As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby’s motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger…The fascinating yet frustrating thing about Ruby is that there is evidence to paint him as at least two different people…Cultural historian Danny Fingeroth’s research includes a new, in-depth interview with Rabbi Hillel Silverman, the legendary Dallas clergyman who visited Ruby regularly in prison and who was witness to Ruby’s descent into madness. Fingeroth also conducted interviews with Ruby family members and associates. The book’s findings will catapult you into a trip through a house of historical mirrors.
“As a conspiracy buff, I leapt into Danny Fingeroth’s Jack Ruby with gusto, only to realize how little I actually knew about Jacob Rubenstein aka Jack Ruby. Nightclub owner? Yes. Landsman? Proudly. Mobster? Maybe. Insane? You have to read the book. Fingeroth takes you beat by beat through that fateful weekend and Ruby’s array of co-stars: strippers, club owners, policemen. He paints a disturbing portrait of a manic Ruby desperate to be in the center of the action, who just wanted to be important.” —David Mandel, TV writer/producer/director (Veep, White House Plumbers)
“Sixty years after the events that changed the world comes this important biography, a gripping, deeply researched investigation into a crucial thread of pivotal history. Danny Fingeroth digs into a neglected figure with precision and flair.” —Lisa Napoli, author of Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News
“It’s likely that no book will ever answer whether Jack Ruby was a lone gunman or part of some vast conspiracy. But cultural sleuth Danny Fingeroth’s fascinating biography offers something more revealing—showing us how this irony-laden icon offers a lens into America’s low-level underworld, its multi-tiered Jewish community, and a Baby-Boom generation robbed of its hero-worshiped president.” —Larry Tye, author of Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon and Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
“Danny Fingeroth’s book does what few books on the JFK assassinations have even attempted by painting a humanized depiction of the many complex layers of Jack Ruby, the killer of the one of the most notorious presidential suspected assassins.” –Mark S. Zaid, Esq., JFK Assassination Historian
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