Editing Jack Ruby (section)

== Illegal activities ==
Some critics have said that Ruby was involved in illegal activity<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Fontaine |first1=Ray La |last2=Fontaine |first2=Mary La |date=August 7, 1994 |title=The Fourth Tramp |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1994/08/07/the-fourth-tramp/1f58fbe9-a0fa-4fc2-8ebf-d62694845bbe/ |access-date=May 10, 2022 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref name="Not" /><ref name=":0" /> such as gambling, narcotics, and prostitution.<ref>{{Cite news| url= http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/R%20Disk/Ruby%20Jack%20As%20Gangster%20Related/Item%2001.pdf| title= The Secret Life of Jack Ruby| date= January 23, 1978| work= New Times| access-date= October 27, 2017| archive-date= October 27, 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171027125644/http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/R%20Disk/Ruby%20Jack%20As%20Gangster%20Related/Item%2001.pdf| url-status= live}}</ref> An [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] report in 1956 stated that informant Eileen Curry had moved to Dallas with her boyfriend James Breen after jumping bail on narcotics charges. Breen told her that he had made connections with a large narcotics setup operating between Texas, Mexico, and the East, and that "James got the okay to operate through Ruby of Dallas."<ref>{{cite web |title=FBI interview |url=https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh23/pdf/WH23_CE_1761.pdf |website=history-matters.com |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405233935/https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh23/pdf/WH23_CE_1761.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Dallas County Sheriff Steve Guthrie told the FBI that he believed that Ruby "operated some prostitution activities and other vices out of his club" in Dallas.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=FBI Report |url=https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh22/pdf/WH22_CE_1251.pdf |website=history-matters.com |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405233936/https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh22/pdf/WH22_CE_1251.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Dallas disc jockey Kenneth Dowe testified that Ruby was known around the station for "procuring women for different people who came to town".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/dowe.htm |title=Testimony of Kenneth Lawry Dowe |website=The Kennedy Assassination |first=John |last=McAdams |author-link=John C. McAdams |access-date=November 17, 2023 |archive-date=November 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118022005/https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/dowe.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

From 1949, up until the murder of Oswald, Ruby had nine criminal charges, ranging from assault to violating state liquor law.<ref>{{cite book |title=Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Volume 23 |date=1964 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=17}}</ref>