Along the way, I also hope to teach a bit about Jewish burial
customs - as my grandfather would say, “for the same price.” Who
can forget where they were on November 22, 1963 when Lee Harvey
Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy? A more difficult
task may be trying to remember who you were with two days later
when Lee Harvey Oswald himself was killed by Jack Ruby. I was at
a Philadelphia Eagles football game standing on line to enter
the old Franklin Field when we heard the news. I remember the
first comments I heard from my father, “Are you kidding, someone
killed Oswald?” and “I hope he’s not Jewish!” Live on TV that
Sunday morning in a Dallas police station, Jack Ruby certainly
killed the presidential assassin - and, yes, he was in fact a
member of our tribe. Ruby died in prison of lung cancer on
January 3, 1967. All Jews are equal in death and he was no
exception. He is buried at Chicago's Westlawn Cemetery. Below is
his traditional tombstone with the inscription “Beloved Son and
Brother JACK RUBY