Jack Ruby Is A Hero. Let's find out. "He was with Jack Ruby and standing at the corner of the Postal Annex Building facing the Texas School Book Depository Building, at the time of the shooting. No, Jack Ruby was not a hero.
He had ties to organized crime and is thought by some conspiracy theorists to have. He was a juvenile delinquent who spent much of youth in foster homes. In a tribute to retired Dallas police homicide Detective Jim Leavelle — the man in the white hat handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when Jack Ruby shot Oswald — I said that Ruby wanted to be a hero.
Jack Ruby grew up in a crowded house in Chicago.
Poll: Is Jack Ruby A Hero.
In a tribute to retired Dallas police homicide Detective Jim Leavelle — the man in the white hat handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when Jack Ruby shot Oswald — I said that Ruby wanted to be a hero. But "the only hero," I wrote, was Leavelle. Let's find out. "He was with Jack Ruby and standing at the corner of the Postal Annex Building facing the Texas School Book Depository Building, at the time of the shooting.