Although the idea that the JFK assassination might be blamed on the Jews seems bizarre to us in the USA of the year 2008, the idea made perfect sense to Jack Ruby in the Dallas, Texas, of 1963. There was an extreme and loud right-wing ideology that blamed much of the world’s problems on a subversive Communist movement that was controlled by evil Jews. Ruby was hyper-sensitive to such propaganda. In his mind, he expected that the Communist Lee Harvey Oswald would be accused of assassinating JFK on orders from the Soviet Union, which was supposedly controlled by a Jewish cabal.

In addition, Ruby was generally exhausted, stressed, frustrated, confused and paranoid because of various problems in his personal life. He happened to be a mental and emotional mess when JFK was assassinated. Ruby was not thinking very straight about anything.

People thinking about the JFK assassination are free to consider all kinds of other explanations for Ruby’s killing of Oswald, but they should be aware of the explanation that was presented by Ruby and his lawyers during Ruby’s trial.