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Oct 2, 2009 10:29 pm US/Central
Jack Ruby Being Honored With Downtown Dallas Mural
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Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby assassinated JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live national television on Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963, two days after Oswald killed the president.
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He's associated with the darkest chapter in Dallas history, but another side of Jack Ruby is being celebrated in Dallas.
"He was portrayed as a villain and from what I hear he really wasn't such a bad character" Artist Isaac Brown is putting his image of Jack Ruby on display for all to see in Deep Ellum.
The mural of Ruby with girls who danced at his club is an effort to reconnect the downtown nightclub scene with one of its founding fathers.
"The club was just up the street from us we're here on Commerce and there was no club that was better known than his" says club manager Oliver Mayr
Ruby is known to rest of the world as the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald two days after Oswald killed President Kennedy.
But in Dallas, Ruby still has friends who understood his crime of passion.
Joyce Gordon worked as a dancer for Ruby, her likeness appears on the mural along side her old boss. "When he shot Oswald I think he really thought he would be given a medal and I don't know he would have just been a nightclub owner if it hadn't have happened."
A larger than life portrait of a convicted killer overlooking traffic may seem unusual, but some remember Jack Ruby for more than just that fateful weekend in 1963 when his life and the city's history would change.
"Jack was a good friend to me… I wish that he hadn't done it but he did and we just learn to live with what he have to."
The owner of the club known as 2616, where the mural is going up, says they will start hosting entertainment from Ruby's era. But, the owner says they won't be quite as edgy and risqué as the club Jack Ruby was known for.
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