JFK Assassination: Jack Ruby CIA Files3,862 of pages of CIA files related to Jack Ruby, material produced or collected by the Agency. Approximately 2,700 pages of the files are from the CIA. Approximately 1,000 pages are FBI and House Select Committee on Assassinations files containing information related to both the CIA and Ruby.
Jacob Leon Rubenstein (March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967), he later changed his last name to Ruby, operated two nightclubs, the Carousel Club and the Vegas Club in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963. On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested by the Dallas Police as a suspect in the murder of Dallas Police Department patrolman J.D. Tippit. Citing evidence provided by Federal, State, and local agencies, the State of Texas arraigned Oswald 12 hours after his arrest, charging him with the murder of both President Kennedy and Patrolman Tippit.
On November 24, 1963, Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, who was in police custody, in the basement of the Dallas Police Department headquarters building. A Dallas jury found Ruby guilty of murdering Oswald, and Ruby was sentenced to death. Later, Ruby appealed his conviction and death sentence and was granted a new trial. Ill with lung cancer, Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.
Much of the subject matter in the files involve looking for a connection between Lee Harvey Oswald and Ruby. Files show attempts to gather information about Ruby' trip to Cuba and his connections to organized crime. Memos take note of an investigation into whether Ruby was a part of an attempt to get Fidel Castro to release Santos Trafficante from jail.