Above; photo of the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Robert H Jackson
Jack Leon Ruby (March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was a Dallas nightclub owner. On Nov 24, 1963 two days after the assassination of President John F Kennedy Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
Ruby had a troubled youth, spending time in foster homes and juvenile detention facilities. His parents were often violent toward each other and his mother was eventually committed to a mental hospital.
He spent time in the US Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic during World War II. Ruby was known for his short temper and for being involved in illegal activities associated with his club including procuring prostitutes and possibly narcotics trafficking.
On the day of the murder Ruby went to the Dallas Police Station and entered the basement. He was standing among reporters when Oswald was being escorted to an armored car to be transported to a local jail. Ruby pulled out a revolver and shot Oswald who died in Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same Hospital JFK died in, 2 hours later.
Ruby was sentenced to death but won an appeal and was to be retried. He died of a pulmonary embolism due to advanced cancer before his second trial. He denied the public important information that would have been revealed if Oswald had reached trial. He knew he had cancer when he assassinated Oswald.
Genaro Garcia Luna (July 10, 1968) is Mexican former Secretary of Public Security. He held his post during the administration of Felipe Calderon from 2006 to 2012. Luna has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.
Luna worked in counterintelligence and counter terrorism for the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia or CNI.
n 2000, he was named Director for Planning and Operation for the Federal Judicial Police, where he introduced administrative structures and operational concepts. In 2001, García Luna was appointed founder and Director General of the Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI). As head of the AFI, he faced widespread criticism after it was revealed that a 2005 police raid, televised as a live operation to rescue kidnapping victims, had been staged. The alleged kidnappers had been detained the previous day and held without due process for nearly 20 hours, with one claiming he was tortured. – Wikipedia
After his time as Secretary of Public Security he authored several books on policing and law enforcement intelligence. He became a partner in GLAC, which provides a risk and security assessment index used by the business community to evaluate conditions across Mexico. The GLAC index is published in El Heraldo de México and El Financiero. In 2015, García Luna was nominated to the Board of SecureAlert, Inc., a Utah-based company specializing in offender monitoring, which is controlled by Sapinda Asia, Ltd., and Lars Windhorst.
Luna was arrested in Dallas in 2019 for taking millions of dollars worth of bribes for the Sinaloa Cartel. Roberta S. Jacobson, the former U.S. ambassador to Mexico (2016–2018), asserted on 3 May 2020 that the Calderón government knew of Genaro García Luna’s ties with the Sinaloa Cartel. Ex-president Felipe Calderón insisted they did not.
On 16 October 2024, Luna was sentenced to 38 years imprisonment.
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