m.+He+did+it+for+Jackie?

= "I didn't want to be a hero." =

Well that's good...because everyone hates you.
On November 24, 1963, only two days after JFK's assassination, the man accused of killing the president was shot by Jack Ruby while being moved from the Dallas police headquarters to a county jail. There were 70 police officers and live TV coverage at the scene, making it possible for countless witnesses to hear Ruby's justification: "I didn't want to be a hero. I did it for Jacqueline Kennedy." Oswald died two hours later at Parkland Hospital. Though Ruby denied that he was part of any conspiracy, over two-thirds of the American population believed that there was some sort of conspiracy taking place. One popular belief was that Ruby shot Oswald so that he would not reveal the bigger conspiracy. In this case, Ruby could have "[done] it for Jacqueline" by protecting her from being found guilty of part of the conspiracy he was covering up. He also could have been hired, asked, or told to kill Oswald to spare Jackie the stress and pain of Oswald's trial. On the other hand, Ruby could have shot Oswald because he personally wanted to protect Jackie or merely because he was angry that Oswald had shot the president, but the circumstances were convenient in many ways. Ruby was originally charged with "murder with malice," but the Texas Court of Appeals declared this an unfair trial. Ruby died in a Dallas Hospital of lung cancer while waiting for his new trial.