Ruby Page #7

and that's "grief," and much of it.

What the f***'s going on?

Can anybody tell me that?

F*** this, Jack!

What the hell is going on?

Everything's connected up wrong.

The system is f***ed.

What're you doing?

What're you looking for?

I'm looking for the tape.

Anything.

You got orders from Washington

to clean up?

Get out! Get the f*** out!

I'm scared.

It's me next, Jack.

Help me.

You're gonna be okay.

Don't worry.

These were the scenes today

at the Dallas Police Department...

when Lee Harvey Oswald

answered a few brief questions.

Oswald declared his innocence...

and police spokesmen didn't say

whether they were charging him...

with the assassination of the President.

Oswald didn't seem to know.

According to police,

Lee Oswald is the owner...

of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle

found in the Book Depository...

I ain't really here.

I'm ice-skating in Houston.

...but Oswald has denied

ownership of the rifle.

It is now known that Oswald

spent three years in the Soviet Union...

and that he was dishonorably discharged

from the Marine Corps...

You know, I knowed him since he was 15.

...that Lee Harvey Oswald

acted alone in the assassination.

It's neat, huh?

Take a kid, any kid.

You get him young...

you can make him into anything.

He done a great job.

Look at him.

- Did you kill the President?

- Are you Communist?

Have you been charged with anything yet?

I really don't know

what the situation is about.

Nobody has told me anything

except that I'm accused...

of murdering a policeman...

Boys wanna know if you can be relied on.

They said, "Jack, Sparky from Chicago...

"he don't want no trouble.

"He just want a quiet life

in his little old club.

"He can be relied on."

You can be relied on, can't you, Jack?

Relied on for what?

Be a little forgetful.

Forget everything and anything

you ever seen or heard.

Everybody relies on Jack Ruby.

Smalltime club owner

with a sense of the past.

That's good.

They ain't gonna get away with this.

Well, they got away with it.

You people...

You think you can walk on everybody.

You a smalltime club owner!

What makes you think you got anything

to say about anything?

You are a chiseling little piece of nothing.

Nobody care what you say!

Not what I say, what I do.

I'll make them stop and listen.

What're you gonna do?

Blow this thing wide open.

How're you gonna do that?

We'll see.

Don't do nothing stupid, Ruby.

Do yourself a favor.

Okay, gentlemen, that's all.

What happened to your eye?

- A policeman hit me.

- Oswald, are you a Communist?

I'm just a patsy.

Once upon a time...

everybody knew where they stood.

Values.

Now it's all f***ed up.

Forget everything you've seen or heard.

Don't do nothing conspicuous.

Nothing that would embarrass Santos.

But someone's got to cut through the sh*t.

Everyone out there at this time is dead.

Jack Ruby...

he's coming to life.

Sparky, from Chicago.

- It's Jack Ruby.

- I'll be damned.

Just take it easy. Just lay there.

All right, Jack.

At this time, some of you may feel

that it is the city of Dallas...

that is on trial here.

And some of you may have reason

to ask yourselves...

what your own thoughts or feelings

you had on November 22.

That fateful afternoon

the President came to our city.

When you turned on your TV sets

to see the man they all said...

shot our President...

and saw what happened

in the police building...

how many of you felt the truth

of what I say to you now?

That Jack Ruby did what

every red-blooded American wanted to do.

That Jack Ruby...

is an American hero?

Attention. The following inmates

have visitations in the day room.

Look, I can't speak in here.

Everything is wired.

I'm gonna get...

The government isn't getting out of me

what it might be.

You think you can talk to the people

in Washington about me?

I want them to take me to Washington.

I can't talk in here!

They took Valachi to Washington.

If they took me there,

I can tell them what really happened.

Jack, listen to me.

They put him in a protection program.

They're gonna ask for the chair.

You've got to plead insane.

All of Dallas says I'm a hero.

I'll walk, Frank.

"We, the jury, find the defendant

guilty of murder with malice...

"as charged in the indictment...

"and assess his punishment as death."

We'll appeal this to the highest court

in the land.

In the appeal,

we demand a retrial out of state.

Listen to me, Jack. We'll plead insanity.

It is the only way to go, believe me.

No!

Come on...

we'll ask for a conference after lunch.

They're saying you did it

for all the little guys.

I done it so that one day

everything's gonna have to...

be brought out in the open, you know?

Got all you want? I sent in some food.

The dogs.

Would you take care of the dogs?

What do you mean?

They wouldn't have no kind of life.

You got to leave here, Candy.

Change your name.

Move out West, and never say nothing.

'Cause the minute you do,

they'd make you look crazy.

You've never been to Dallas.

Forget all about Jack Ruby.

How can I go?

How can you stay?

Believe in yourself.

Forget me.

I could never forget you, Jack.

I love you.

I love you, too, Candy.

Go on.

They're killing me!

Okay, Jack, this is just to calm you down.

You all know me.

I'm Jack Ruby.

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