54 years ago today, a Dallas jury took 2 hrs to reject Jack Ruby's 'temporary insanity' defense, finding him guilty of killing Lee Oswald + sentenced him to death in the electric chair.The verdict caused pandemonium in the court Ruby's atty, Melvin Belli, screamed he would appeal pic.twitter.com/8OIsgIOEmD— Gerald Posner (@geraldposner) March 14, 2018
Ruby's convinction was later overturned on appeal and he was granted a new trial, but he died of cancer on January 3, 1967, before the second trial took place.
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