Why Jack Ruby Killed Oswald, According to William Kunstler

A year before William Kunstler passed away, he wrote an autobiography titled

My Life as a Radical Lawyer, which he certainly was

when looking at all the

high-profile cases that he defended, which coincidentally was also briefly this

guy,

Jacob Rubenstein, AKA Jack Ruby.

Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface.

The world will never know the true facts

of what occurred, my motives.

Well, not exactly. According to Kunstler's biography

describing Ruby as a

violent and mentally unstable person, paranoid of pogroms and antisemitism,

it states, "When Jack told me he killed Oswald for

the Jews, I

believed him. On each of the three occasions we talked,

he said, 'Bill,

I did this so they wouldn't implicate Jews.' Lee Harvey Oswald had belonged to

Fair

Play for Cuba, an organization with a number of Jewish

members.

Because of this association of Oswald, Jack's convoluted thinking led him to

believe that the Kennedy assassination would be linked to Jews." 1994,

a year before William Kunstler

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