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Murder Conviction and Death Sentence

United States · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1964

Jack Ruby14 March 1964

Dallas · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

A Dallas jury found Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald on March 14, 1964, and assessed the death penalty.

Names involved

Jack Ruby

Provenance

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