THINKING OUT LOUD Oct 29, 2009
Rivaling it for fame is the photo of Jack Ruby shooting to death Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated JFK, taken by Robert H. Jackson of the Dallas Times-Herald. While most of the photos are of violence or tragedy, some are moments of great joy. (Bartow Polk County Democrat, FL)
Today in History - Oct. 31 Oct 20, 2009
His name: Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu took the oath of office as the first president of South Vietnam's second republic. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Mystery over Kennedy assassination still swirls around dead CIA agent Oct 18, 2009
For six years, the agency has fought to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Castro Cuban group it paid clashed publicly with the soon-to-be assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald ... For six years, the agency has fought to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Castro Cuban group it paid clashed publicly with the soon-to-be assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The unseen reactions to Obama's Nobel Oct 12, 2009
MP Nunan - An American Ex-Pat in America - True/Slant. or to Shape Your News. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Craig Watkins, `rock star' DA at a crossroads Oct 10, 2009
Wade prosecuted Jack Ruby for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and was famously sued in Roe v. Wade, the lawsuit that legalized abortion in the United States. In 2006, when Watkins was elected in a Democratic landslide that also claimed 42 judgeships, he used the back elevator to enter his new office. (Anchorage Daily News)
A different day Oct 8, 2009
Part One takes us from the hours before the assassination to the tragedy and through the next five blurred days after it, including the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald ... Part One takes us from the hours before the assassination to the tragedy and through the next five blurred days after it, including the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
When sceptics fight back Oct 7, 2009
FIVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES World Trade Center: Destroyed by controlled explosions or using thermate Pentagon: Hit by missile rather than airliner Princess Diana: Murdered rather than being killed by reckless driving on part of Henri Paul Apollo 11: Moon landings never took place, were staged on Earth JFK: Lee Harvey Oswald not acting alone, part of underworld or wider conspiracy. A decade after Princess Diana's death, one survey found a fifth of Britons believed she was murdered. (BBC News -- UK)
'Vitriolic outrage' didnt start with Obama foes Oct 7, 2009
The British Guardian wrote, "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. - where are you now that we need you." Betty Williams, a Peace Prize recipient, said, "I would love to kill George Bush.". Many people at rallies were worse. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Boris Johnson on Blair as Europe president Oct 6, 2009
steve 1:52 "Boris this is just a red herring. Yes, but we are hoping he will become a UKIPper. Simple Sailor on October 05, 2009 at 11:32 PM If Bliar becomes EU President, what provision will be made to assure that his expense records are not shredded by accident? Simple Sailor on October 05, 2009 at 11:27 PM Wouldn't the citizens of the EU be better served by a "straight sort of guy"? Simple Sailor on October 05, 2009 at 11:27 PM If Bliar becomes President will he promise to serve a full term?... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
If Obama is a dictator, how must he be stopped? Oct 1, 2009
In the Guardian, a leading British daily, columnist Charlie Brooker issued a plea: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. where are you now that we need you. For the more literary Bush-hater, there is Checkpoint, a novel by Nicholson Baker in which two characters discuss the wisdom of shooting the president. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Ahmadinejad slams Israel as world powers turn up heat (134) Sep 30, 2009
Ahmadinejad slams Israel as world powers turn up heat. include_if_component:audio-link:1:incs/story/audio. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Ted Goble, 84; spiritual man became career FBI agent Sep 17, 2009
Years later, he would tell friend Craig Ball that he believed that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Ted was also involved in arresting some Ku Klux Klan people during the Civil Rights Movement and was an FBI counterintelligence liaison in Tel Aviv, Ball said. (Boston Globe)
House Dems to Introduce Resolution to Condemn Wilson Sep 16, 2009
You won t often find me defending anything to do with the Bush administration (either of them) but the vile rhetoric from Democrats and their willing accomplices in the media aimed at Bush was unprecedented in scope and scale -- including a film suggesting Bush s assassination and a Guardian columnist desirous of a Lee Harvey Oswald or a John Wilkes Booth materializing to end Bush s presidency. I must have missed the outrage from Democrats then. (Human Events Online)
Jessica Seinfeld wins plagiarism case Sep 12, 2009
Lapine's defamation claims against the comedian refer to a comment he made on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in 2007, when he compared the fact that Lapine uses three names to the fact that assassins sometimes use three names, as was the case with Lee Harvey Oswald. "The claims against for defamation are still fully alive," Miller said. (CNN -- Law)
United States of Paranoia Sep 11, 2009
The evidence shows beyond a reasonable doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy: witness Howard Brennan spied Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository firing on the president s motorcade; the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle used in the assassination contained tufts of cotton fiber matching the shirt Oswald was wearing at the time of his arrest; firearms experts for the Warren Commission determined that all of the bullets fired at the motorcade belonged to Oswald s rifle. But polls show... (The American Conservative)
* World News Quick Take Sep 9, 2009
A Dallas suburb has agreed to pay US$175,000 for the house where Lee Harvey Oswald stored the rifle used to assassinate president John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Dallas Morning News reported on Monday that the sum the Irving City Council agreed to pay was above the US$84,000 appraised value. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Dallas 'burb buying house where Oswald kept gun Sep 8, 2009
A Dallas suburb has agreed to pay $175,000 for the house where Lee Harvey Oswald stored the rifle used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy ... Unbeknownst to Paine, Lee Harvey Oswald stored a gun in the garage and picked it up the night before the assassination ... Dallas suburb buying house where Oswald kept rifle Articles (09-07) 19:37 PDT Irving, Texas (AP) -- A Dallas suburb has agreed to pay $175,000 for the house where Lee Harvey Oswald stored the rifle used to assassinate President... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Irving buys house Oswald visited Sep 8, 2009
DALLAS The Irving City Council has unanimously agreed to pay $175,000 to buy the historic house where Lee Harvey Oswald s wife once lived and where he stored the rifle used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. The Dallas Morning News reports Monday that the house is valued at $84,000 by the Dallas Central Appraisal District. (KHOU.com, TX)
Breakfast With ... Meat Loaf Sep 7, 2009
Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast With. Michael Lee Aday (aka Meat Loaf). (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Kennedy memoir reveals remorse over Chappaquiddick Sep 6, 2009
" He said he was afraid and "made terrible decisions" and had to live with the guilt for more than four decades.Kennedy drove off a bridge into a pond. He swam to safety, leaving Kopechne in the car.Kopechne, a worker with slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's campaign, was found dead in the submerged car's back seat 10 hours later. Kennedy, then 37, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and got a suspended sentence and probation.He wrote that he had no romantic relationship with Kopechne,... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Memoir: Chappaquiddick Haunted Kennedy Sep 4, 2009
He said he had a full briefing by Earl Warren, the chief justice on the commission that investigated the Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas shooting, which was attributed to Lee Harvey Oswald. He said he was convinced the Warren Commission got it right and he was "satisfied then, and satisfied now.". (Time.com)
Chappaquiddick 'haunts me,' Kennedy said Sep 4, 2009
AFP - Friday, September 4. US senator Edward Kennedy, seen here in 2007, went to his death haunted by his role in the tragic drowning of a young woman after he crashed their car 40 years ago, the late senator writes in an autobiography due to be published. (Yahoo! Asia News)
technology in the classroom Sep 1, 2009
During Menninger s lecture about former U.S. President John F. Kennedy s 1963 assassination in Dallas, the social studies teacher uses Google Earth a Web site that displays maps and satellite images to show the location of the 35th U.S. president s killing and a YouTube video capturing the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination executed by Lee Harvey Oswald. With a few clicks of the mouse, Menninger creates an engaging presentation that he says better illustrates the event. (Acton Beacon, MA)
The dream truly does live on Aug 31, 2009
The foundational murder of John Kennedy was a daylight nightmare because it brought into the open all of our worst fears - embodied in the bizarre connections of Lee Harvey Oswald. Having defected to Moscow, he brought home the Soviet threat. (Boston Globe)
Click to read:Thousands Greet Lockerbie Bomber in Libya Aug 21, 2009
" Oh LOOK! What a SHOCK! On all BBC Have Your Say there wasn't ONE POST trying to turn this American political. I know I spent the day trying to bash you aas holes back. But anti-America HYS moderators won't allow THAT. So Hows the weather today in Scotland, American libiot propagandist? Quick! Go look it up! And the left are actually idiot enough to buy it. Het head over here lefty drones! http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=6897&edition=2&ttl=20090821012235 Seee how much your... (CBS News)
How to Prepare a Persuasive Speech Aug 20, 2009
Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ... Moreover, like a thesis statement, this idea should be expressed in one complete declarative sentence; for example, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. (Suite101.com)
Excursions: You don't need a big wallet in Dallas Aug 16, 2009
Depository worker Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the assassination the day Kennedy was killed, but was shot to death two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. (2 of 2). (Florida Today)
Dallas: Designer purses and $10 enchilada plates Aug 13, 2009
Depository worker Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the assassination the day Kennedy was killed, but was shot to death two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Admission to the museum, http://www. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Will we destroy another president? Aug 12, 2009
Skooby wrote on Aug 11, 2009 3:32 PM:" PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA WAS LEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOT JUST TO THOSE WHO VOTED FOR HIM. It's one thing to disagree with the President Of The United States. It's TREASON to deny the Presidency of the United States to anyone legally elected to that office. John Wilkes Boothe did not accept Lincoln as President Of The United States. Lee Harvey Oswald did not accept John Kennedy as President Of The United States.... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Disabled "Fight Club" Trial Begins Aug 11, 2009
The state that gave us Koresh, Bush 2, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Anyone really surprised these lowlife TEXANS did this to innocent, disabled people. (CBS News)
- Just Warming Up: Crazy? I’ll show you crazy (1) Aug 11, 2009
Lee Harvey Oswald was just a confused Bigfoot hunter who was trying to off the big guy he saw hiding in the shadows waiting to take out Kennedy and assume the presidency. The wacky Lou Dobbs should be all over this story. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Smith: Vive la French hospitals, nurses Aug 8, 2009
CONQUES, France - If you visit The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, you will find Francois Pelou's photograph, owing to the fact that he was standing beside Jack Ruby when Ruby lunged and shot Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963. Covering the Kennedy assassination, and subsequently the Oswald murder, was just one of the big events in Pelou's life as a journalist for Agence France Press. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Humanity bared: Pulitzer Prize-winning photos will ‘touch everyone' Aug 7, 2009
Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John Kennedy. The subject matter of this exhibition is truly international, Koostra said. (Missoulian, MT)
3-alarm fire may have been set on purpose Aug 4, 2009
The building shares the same address as where Jack Ruby, who was convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, once lived. Bookmark/Share. (KHOU.com, TX)
JIM DODSON: The End of TV as We Knew It Aug 2, 2009
I actually saw Lee Harvey Oswald shot on live TV.. I also remember watching Churchill's funeral from London, the Beatles' first live performance on Ed Sullivan, and in the 1970s, as I came of age and was eligible for the draft, Walter Cronkite's sober reporting from Vietnam basically marked the turning point in our involvement in that pointless Asian conflict. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Apollo's "Giant Leap for Mankind" Honored Jul 21, 2009
40 Years Later, Moon Landing Remains Benchmark of American Achievement. While the three astronauts of Apollo 11 received the bulk of the attention for landing on the moon 40 years ago, 400-thousand people worked behind the scenes to make it happen. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
Top 10 Conspiracy Theories Jul 21, 2009
Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with killing him, and a presidential commission headed by U.S. Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren found that Oswald acted alone. That conclusion hasn't passed muster with the public. (Time.com)
Cronkite, who defined the role of anchor, dies at 92 Jul 18, 2009
"This is the larger question that will be answered, in part, in the manner that a shaken civilization seeks the answers to the immediate question: Who, and most importantly what, was Lee Harvey Oswald? The world's doubts must be put to rest. "Tonight there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them the sense that somehow they have failed ... "This is the larger question that will be answered, in part, in the manner that a shaken civilization seeks the answers to the... (News & Observer)
Cronkite broadcasts: Moon landing, JFK death Jul 18, 2009
This is the larger question that will be answered, in part, in the manner that a shaken civilization seeks the answers to the immediate question: Who, and most importantly what, was Lee Harvey Oswald. The worlds doubts must be put to rest. (MSNBC -- Television)
Legendary anchor Walter Cronkite dies Jul 18, 2009
For anyone alive in that time, the TV images of the Kennedy funeral procession, the salute of little John-John to his dead father and the jailhouse execution of Lee Harvey Oswald are indelibly stored in memory. Television's speed, reach and impact had come of age, and Cronkite's Midwestern timbre would provide the soundtrack for the medium's most incandescent years. (News & Observer)
Joe Jackson: "Foul Play" Killed My Son Jul 11, 2009
I know who did it: Lee Harvey Oswald ... " US Top 100 Dance Singles * 1980: "If You Feel the Funk" * 1983: "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'" * 1984: "Hot Potato" * 2004: "Just Wanna Dance" * 2005: "Free the World"OK, now your accomplishments? by gravyboat4000 July 10, 2009 9:00 AM PDT Gravy covers MoTown hits. 1985 Gravy Groove. 1987 "Sop it up"; the love songs of Gravy. 1990 GravyBoat:"Floatin". a collection of covers songs on the harp.1992 Gravy goes Country.(including a duet with Mindi... (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Leaping like a lemming or taking a stand Jul 3, 2009
The Profile of Lee Bowers wrote on Jul 2, 2009 9:44 AM:" It appears our dear brother, Newsman's Reality, has slunk off somewhere abandoning the Hardie blog after his inane and hypocritical comment. Very well. But I must state for the rest of you, the irony of his moniker. Newsmen and Newswomen in this country have very little to do with reality. Instead they are the masters of illusion feeding the bewildered herd innumerable fantasies to keep us in line. Yep, it was Lee Harvey Oswald, and not... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Better things to come? Jun 24, 2009
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, Jeff. And you finally have written something nice about Hanson. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
TV star Harris readies for Tony awards Jun 6, 2009
In 2004 he appeared as the Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald in a revival of Sondheim's "Assassins." And he became an Internet musical-comedy sensation in the Web entertainment "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," playing the title character created by good friend Joss Whedon. Because "How I Met Your Mother" occupies his time for seven months a year, there is little time for Harris to do stage work. (Boston Globe)
Neil Patrick Harris Gets Ready As 2009 Tony Host Jun 4, 2009
Then there was a return visit to Roundabout's Studio 54 where in 2004 he appeared as the Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald in a revival of "Assassins," plus a recording of Sondheim's TV musical, "Evening Primrose." And he became an Internet musical-comedy sensation in the Web entertainment "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," playing the title character created by good friend Joss Whedon. Because "How I Met Your Mother" occupies his time for seven months a year, there is little time for Harris to do... (KIRO TV, WA)
Gitmo Detainee Dies Of "Apparent Suicide" Jun 3, 2009
Harder than Lee Harvey Oswald getting off 3 shots from a bolt action rifle dead on target in 6 seconds. (debunked as almost impossible years ago). (CBS News -- World)
Harvey Haddix teaches a young boy some lessons May 31, 2009
But the Haddix saga goes back to an innocent time, before the Cuban missile crisis taught school kids to tuck under their desks, before Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray and Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, before Vietnam, before I looked at baseball one day and no longer recognized it. Among the lessons I learned that day. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Will Wolfram Alpha be google killer? May 19, 2009
Will Wolfram Alpha be a google killer. - Internet -Infotech-The Economic Times. (India Times)
Neil Patrick Harris To Host Tonys May 15, 2009
Harris has appeared in hit TV series such as "How I Met Your Mother," where he plays the womanizing Barney Stinson, and "Doogie Howser, M.D." On Broadway, he has appeared in the revivals of "Cabaret" and in "Assassins" (playing the Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald) as well as in the Tony-winning drama "Proof.". "The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me," Harris said in a statement Thursday. (CBS News)
Study: WHO's Flu Warnings Justified May 12, 2009
And they also said Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Posted by nofoolling at 10:57 PM : May 11, 2009. (CBS News)
DNA Helps Free Inmate After 27 00004000Years May 10, 2009
Wade prosecuted Jack Ruby in the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. He's the Wade in "Roe v. Wade," the abortion case. (CBS News -- Evening News)
Edwin Shrake, 77; cowrote bestseller on golf May 9, 2009
"We knew all the nighttime characters, and Ruby was a guy we knew," Cartwright said, referring to the killer of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. "When the bars and clubs would close, all the people would go by our apartment almost every night, and Ruby was there frequently.". (Boston Globe)
Obituaries in the news May 9, 2009
Cartwright said their apartment was often the site of parties after the nightclubs closed, frequented by characters that included Ruby - the killer of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Shrake was close friends with Richards. (Anchorage Daily News)
Cantu Case: Cops In Focus May 5, 2009
Yeah, you non-religious types got all the winners on your side--Stalin, Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacey, that guy that munched on people and their body parts Jeffrey Dohmer, Lee Harvey Oswald, and, drum roll please, that son-of-a-gun charmer, Adie Hitler. Posted by cockroachcrusher"Yeah and you buybull thumpers have real winners on your side, like Dennis Raider- the church DEACON, family man who liked to kill women in his spare time, Hitler who as a child was an alter boy and whose book Mein... (CBS News -- US)
B razen C ommunist S eries SUSAN WALSHASSOCIATED PRESS John Swofford, top left, the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference and coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series, and Mountain West Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson appeared before a congressional hearing Friday to hear the BCS be compared with communism. Meanwhile, Joe Stalin, a true communist and brutal tyrant, at left, remains safely buried somewhere in Russia. Old age and death kept well-known communists, such as Fidel Castro, above, at left, and Nikita Khrushchev from attending the hearing to show their support for the BCS. Communist revolutionary Vlad Lenin, above, at right, dropped dead in 1924, just weeks after Navy and the University of Washington played to a 14-14 tie in the Rose Bowl. Coincidence? Hmm. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS JOSHUA GUNTERTHE PLAIN DEALERBrowns coach Eric Mangini is going to make players run laps -- with their shoes on -- for fumbling during practice. May 3, 2009
I'm not a fan of the BCS, but on a list of sports-related threats to society I'd rank it far behind rogue referees (even if Tim Donaghy, like Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone), splintered maple bats and even the remote possibility that Matt Millen might someday return to run another NFL franchise. Standard procedure at these hearings is to threaten leagues with litigation that would greatly injure their bottom line. (Cleveland.com -- Sports)
Arlen Specter and Other Magic Bullets Aimed at the GOP May 1, 2009
As many know, it was an ambitious lawyer named Arlen Specter, working on the Warren Commission inquiry into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who is credited with having conceived of the "single bullet" theory that somehow established that Kennedy's only assailant was Lee Harvey Oswald. The theory has been termed by skeptics as the "magic bullet" theory. (Townhall.com)
Pa.'s Specter: Cancer and political survivor Apr 29, 2009
His work led the commission to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Throughout his career, Specter has demonstrated not just political stamina but physical resilience. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Arlen Specter: A Republican No More Apr 29, 2009
Became a household name as the Commission's chief architect and a vocal defender of the group's theory that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone ... "Lee Harvey Oswald did not have this big an entourage." On the mob that surrounded him following his announcement that he was leaving the Republican Party to become a Democrat (AP, April 28, 2009). (Time.com)
The faux outrage over Homeland Security report Apr 17, 2009
4:53 pm April 16, 2009, by Jay. WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans on Wednesday said a Homeland Security Department intelligence assessment unfairly characterizes military veterans as right-wing extremists. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Don't Let History of Hate Torpedo Peace Apr 14, 2009
Better to be responsible for Jack Ruby than Lee Harvey Oswald. Growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust, we knew from hate. (Newsmax)
The iafrica.com debate Apr 8, 2009
For eight long years I have watched Jacob Zuma demonised, his convictions drawn and quartered, in a character assassination and political witchhunt so brutal that Lee Harvey Oswald would be proud. A lesser man would have folded but the Prodigal Son took his ordeal in the dock in his stride to clear his name and in just a couple of weeks is set to return to lead SA into a new era. (iAfrica.com)
Terry Rindfleisch: Retiring doctor has promoted lifestyle changes for 40 years Apr 1, 2009
Winga was assigned to care for Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Ruby died at Parkland on Jan. 3, 1967. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Famed Oswald window frame in dispute Mar 20, 2009
The window in the former Texas School Book Depository from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy is perhaps the most famous window in America, photographed by thousands of tourists every year ... Courtesy of Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza The window from which Lee Harvey Oswald fatally shot President Kennedy has been maintained by the Dallas museum to look as it did on Nov. 22, 1963 ... Courtesy of Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza The window from which Lee Harvey Oswald fatally... (Insight on the News)
AP: Obama Can't Reform FOIA Fast Enough Mar 18, 2009
In the uncensored version, Ford described hearing a CIA report that Lee Harvey Oswald received $6,500 from the Cuban consulate in Mexico City. "Ford stated this excited him greatly in as much as it definitely tended to show there was an international connection involved in the assassination of the president," DeLoach wrote. (CBS News -- US)
Today in History Mar 14, 2009
In 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence were later overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried). (Yahoo News)