Movies
Stroll down the Main Street ramp to the police headquarters basement, step over the electrical cables and ease past the extras and the onlookers, and there it is: The slo-mo black-and-white nightmare of Nov. 24, 1963, time-warped to full color, flash-and-blood life.
Aug. 11, 1991
World & Nation
Henry M.
March 2, 2001
For collectors of film memorabilia, there are a few items that embody all the magic of movie lore: Sam’s piano from “Casablanca,” the Rosebud sled from “Citizen Kane,” Charlie Chaplin’s bowler hat and cane.
Aug. 13, 1989
The gun, the infernal gun, has been sitting in a safety deposit box for 22 years.
Dec. 7, 1989
A lawyer was removed Tuesday as executor of Jack Ruby’s estate, whose major asset is the .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver the Dallas nightclub owner used to kill presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
Nov. 7, 1990
A Dallas probate judge gave the Internal Revenue Service until Jan. 15 to prove its claim to proceeds from the sale of the gun Jack Ruby used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald after President John F.
Dec. 9, 1989
California
Joe Tonahill, the colorful defense attorney who helped represent Lee Harvey Oswald killer Jack Ruby in Dallas, has died.
Nov. 9, 2001
First there was “JFK.” Now there’s “Ruby.” What’s next, “Lee, We Hardly Knew Ye?”?
March 27, 1992
Books
Blinking Jack Ernest Stokes has lost his beloved wife, and his story begins with a cry of helplessness: “She hasn’t been dead four months and I’ve already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze.”
June 11, 1989
Travel & Experiences
JACK RUBY’S KITCHEN SINK: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest by Tom Miller; National Geographic Society; $24, 250 pages
Nov. 17, 2000