I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

As the date for his new trial was being set he became ill and died of lung cancer. ) According to Kantor Ruby asked him if he thought that it would be a good idea for him to close his nightclubs for the next three nights because of the tragedy and Kantor responded that he thought that doing so would be a good idea. Ruby considered McWillie who had previously run illegal gambling establishments in Texas to be one of his closest friends.

Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald the man who (according to four government investigations) assassinated President John F. Ruby was originally from Chicago Illinois; he moved to Dallas in 1947.