Ruby

Ruby
Ruby, Jack
(1911-67) the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald two days after Oswald was charged with killing President John F. Kennedy. Some people believed that these actions were part of a ↑conspiracy (=secret plan) to kill the President, and that Ruby shot Oswald to prevent him from giving any information about it.

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