Ruby

"...Mckenzie. Starring: Danny Aeillo, Sherilyn Fenn and Arliss Howard. Ruby has the look of a cheap knockoff hustled along..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

They Killed the President

Dallas soul man Bobby Patterson once counted Jack Ruby a patron

"...at a nightclub called the Vegas Club, owned by Jack Ruby, who killed alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald...."

Nov. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...Dallas clipjoint proprietor and killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby: "I can tell you about Jack Ruby, and..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Ruby Jane's no longer the innocent

"...An artist who has not yet even turned 21, Ruby Jane Smith is a 17-year-old fiddle prodigy whose next..."

June 29, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

That Wild Man

Gary Cartwright: The mad, mad, mad life of a Texas wordsmith

"...flame-haired stripper named Jada who worked in one of Jack Ruby's clubs. "She was a wild woman," Cartwright says...."

June 26, 2015 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright

Time to "Turn Out the Lights" for the Texas Mad Dog writer

"...profiles of Candy Barr, Jay J. Armes, Jerry Jones, Jack Ruby, Benny Benion, and, of course, Willie; deep digs..."

March 2, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Parkland

The events surrounding the assasination of JFK are witnessed through the eyes of those who were there in this made-in-Austin film.

"...Harden, Billy Bob Thornton, James Badge Dale, Ron Livingston, Jacki Weaver, Colin Hanks, Jackie Earle Haley, Kat Steffens, Tom..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life.

"...My Most Unforgettable Year," in which Cartwright recalls knowing Jack Ruby, "the cheesy little hood who owned the Carousel..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

11/22

Legendary Austin author Neal Barrett Jr. describes that fateful day in 1963

"...to lunch a little later, after the president and Jackie drove by...."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Neal Barrett Jr

The Wizard of Oz

Follow the yellow brick road.

"...Victor Fleming. Starring: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. This marvelous spectacle..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sxsw

"...THE JACKMORMONS: From Salt Lake City, this four-piece is already known..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...the Carousel Club, the joint owned by Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby. As I recall, the episode included interview footage..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Burning Down the Sixties

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

"...and scrounged all the Cuban cigars in D.C. for Jack...."

June 29, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Cold Six Thousand

"...a direct descendant of Dashiell Hammett, Ross McDonald, and Jack Webb, distilling that dark-noir trio into something particularly electrifying...."

May 18, 2001 Books Review by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Life and death on the live music club scene; Dale Watson escapes, Huey Meaux doesn't; and more tantalizing tidbits of Terpsichore...

"...the building was also where Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. After realizing he was standing on the spot..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Riding With Bob

"...(l-r) Luke Wills, Johnnie Wills, Bob Wills, and Billy Jack Wills All Photos Courtesy of Rosetta Wills..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Letters at 3AM: JFK and That Hard Rain

When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy's assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley's

"...Then my mother and millions of others watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald dead on live TV...."

Nov. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Lee Harvey Oswald Was a Friend of Homer Henderson

"...Texas Theatre, and Marsalis Avenue in Oak Cliff, where Jack Ruby had lived. Thirty years ago people didn't give..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

ASK: Roland Swenson

JFK symposium exposes SXSW head as CIA operative!

"...Porter; one of the cops handcuffed to Oswald when Jack Ruby shot him; one of the KGB officers who..."

Nov. 21, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Acknowledge LBJ's Depravity

"...immediately recognized the murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald – Jack Ruby – as a "Lyndon Johnson man" from the..."

Nov. 11, 2013 Postmarks

The Insider's Outsider Guide to Texas

Remembering Bud Shrake

"...place for some of the city's scruffier legends, including Jack Ruby and his famous stripper, Jada. Strange Peaches may..."

May 15, 2009 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Comes in Threes

R.I.P. Stephen, Bud, and Poodie

"...the aura of celebrity. Hey, he had schmoozed with Jack Ruby and Willie Nelson. The Shrake I knew was..."

May 11, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Truth Seeker

Photographer Sebastião Salgado bears witness to the world in black and white

"...six soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima or Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald are seared in our..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Riding the 'Wave'

Bud Shrake compacts his far-flung, storied career in his new collection

"...the same time, he was a regular patron at Jack Ruby's nightclub and dating the star stripper, and his..."

April 25, 2008 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

"...Edwin Shrake's novel Strange Peaches, Gary Cartwright's "Who Was Jack Ruby?", and Joe Bob Briggs' "How I Solved the..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Books Review by R.U. Steinberg

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

"...I remember from watching television during that time was Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. I remember that..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Mr. Smarty Pants

"...Jack Ruby lost half of his left index finger during..."

May 24, 2002 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Fast Cars, Strip Bars, and Elvis, Even

What's new, Pussycat? Onetime Russ Meyer leading lady Tura Satana comes to town for the first annual Alamo Drive-In.

"...out in black gloves, black boots, and black leather jacket. With a résumé that already included a stint dancing..."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Notes on Mad Dogs

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

"...a phony marijuana charge. Two other regular visitors were Jack Ruby, the cheesy little hood who owned the Carousel..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Writer-at-Large

"...senior editor Gary Cartwright (whose November 1975 article on Jack Ruby opened Draper's eyes to the fact that magazine..."

May 14, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

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