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 | | Ruby left a few months later, and it is unclear whether or not he was connected with the Chicago syndicate. |
 | | On November 24, 1963, Ruby, then proprietor of the Carousel Club, shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy (see KENNEDY ASSASSINATION), in the basement of the Dallas City Jail, during Oswald's transfer to the county jail. |
 | | Although he was defended by Melvin Belli on the grounds that "psychomotor epilepsy" caused him to fl out consciously while functioning physically, Ruby was convicted of murder with malice on March 14, 1964, and sentenced to death. |
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