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In reply to the discussion: 10 Facts about Lee Oswald that make 70% of Americans Wonder... [View all]former9thward
(32,028 posts)I wrote a book on Chicago labor history. I did a lot of research on the Mafia encroachment into Chicago labor unions. If you go to the front page of the Chicago Tribune, December 9, 1939 you will find .... a picture of Jack Ruby -- wanted for murder of a reformist union leader, Leon Cooke, who had organized the Scrap Iron and Junk Haulers Union. After the Cooke murder Ruby helped Paul Dorfman take over the union. Dorfman was part of Tony Accardo's crew and the union became part of Teamsters, which was mob controlled soon after. Like almost all of Chicago's mob killings no charges were filed when the police caught up with Ruby. He continued to work for the mob for the next 10 years until they told him to move to Dallas as part of their effort to expand to the rapidly growing Texas cities.
I could go on and on, I have a whole chapter on it but he was no wannabe. He was the real thing (unless you think the Chicago Tribune has a time machine and in 1963 went back in time to change their 1939 paper to reflect badly on Ruby).