Editing Jack Ruby (section)

===November 22: Assassination of Kennedy===
According to the Warren Commission, on November 22, Ruby was in the second-floor advertising offices of the ''[[The Dallas Morning News|Dallas Morning News]]'', five blocks away from the [[Texas School Book Depository]], placing weekly advertisements for his nightclubs, when he learned of the assassination around 12:45 p.m. According to witnesses, Ruby was visibly shaken. Ruby then made phone calls to his assistant at the Carousel Club and to his sister. The Commission stated that an employee of the ''Dallas Morning News'' estimated that Ruby left the newspaper's offices at 1:30 p.m., but indicated that other testimony suggested that he had left earlier. According to the Warren Commission, Ruby arrived back at the Carousel Club shortly before 1:45 p.m. to notify employees that the club would be closed that evening.

John Newnam, an employee at the newspaper's advertisement department, testified that Ruby became upset over an anti-Kennedy ad published in the ''Morning News'' that was signed by "The American Fact-Finding Committee, Bernard Weissman, Chairman." Ruby was sensitive to [[antisemitism]] and was distressed that an ad attacking the President was signed by a person with a "Jewish name." Early the next morning, Ruby noticed a political billboard featuring the text "IMPEACH EARL WARREN" in block letters. Ruby's sister Eva testified that Ruby had told her that he believed that the anti-Kennedy ad and the anti-Warren sign were connected and were a plot by a "gentile" to blame the assassination on the Jews.<ref name=posner/>

Ruby was seen in the halls of the [[Dallas Municipal Building|Dallas Police Headquarters]] on several occasions after Oswald's arrest for the murder of Dallas policeman [[J. D. Tippit]]. He was present at an arranged press conference with Oswald. Ruby later told the FBI that he had his .38 [[Colt Cobra]] revolver in his right pocket during the press conference.<ref>[http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=11647&relPageId=10 FBI Notes of Conference btwn. Ruby and FBI Hall & Clements in Dallas Jail], December 21, 1963, Warren Commission Document 1252, p. 9.</ref><ref>[http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol5/html/HSCA_Vol5_0092a.htm House Select Committee on Assassinations – Hearings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918012342/http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol5/html/HSCA_Vol5_0092a.htm |date=September 18, 2018 }}, volume 5, p. 179.</ref> Newsreel footage from [[WFAA]]-TV (Dallas) and [[NBC News|NBC]] shows that Ruby impersonated a newspaper reporter during a press conference held by District Attorney [[Henry Wade]] at Dallas Police Headquarters that night. Wade briefed reporters that Oswald was a member of the anti-Castro [[Crusade to Free Cuba Committee|Free Cuba Committee]]. Ruby was one of several people there who spoke up to correct Wade, saying, "Henry, that's the [[Fair Play for Cuba Committee]]", a pro-Castro organization.<ref>[http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh5/html/WC_Vol5_0117a.htm Testimony of Henry Wade] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007005954/http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh5/html/WC_Vol5_0117a.htm |date=October 7, 2012 }}, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 5, p. 223.</ref><ref name="aarc">[http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh5/html/WC_Vol5_0100a.htm Warren Commission Hearings, vol V, p. 189] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720025831/http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh5/html/WC_Vol5_0100a.htm |date=July 20, 2020 }} aarclibrary.org</ref>