Season 7, Episode 346 · JFK The Enduring Secret
Episode 346 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 22
7 Sep 2026 · 23 min
Episode notes
In this gripping twenty-second installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we look past the convenient post-assassination caricature of Jack Ruby as a pathetic, lonely "police buff" who brought free pizza to headquarters. Instead, we peel back the layers of the Dallas Police Department and FBI files to expose a highly calculating, double-shielded operator who survived on the very edge of the law for sixteen years. We reconstruct the shadowy 1953-1955 gambling hustle Jack ran alongside swindler H...
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JFK The Enduring Secret
Jeff Crudele · Society & Culture · English
An in depth tutorial and discussion around the assassination of John F. Kennedy, (JFK) the country's 35th president who was brutally murdered in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963. The series comprehensively explores the major facts, themes, and events leading up to the assassination in Dealey Plaza
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S7 · E349 · 15 Sep 2026 · 47 min
Episode 349 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 25
In this compelling twenty-fifth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we step inside Apartment 207 at the Marsalis Place Apartments on South Ewing Street during the turbulent afternoon and evening of Sunday, November 24, 1963. Hours after Jack Ruby executed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television, Dallas detectives searched the residence under warrant, discovering over $3,100 in cash scattered between bedroom cloth sacks, living room closets, Ruby's pockets, and his white Oldsmobile ...
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S7 · E348 · 14 Sep 2026 · 28 min
Episode 348 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 24
In this twenty-fourth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we reconstruct the immediate, chaotic aftermath of Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, when Jack Ruby stepped from a crowd of journalists in the Dallas Police Department basement and shot Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television. We explore the instant, bitter fracture in public perception: while hundreds of sympathetic citizens sent telegrams and defense contributions praising Ruby as a grief-stricken patriot who spared...
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S7 · E347 · 11 Sep 2026 · 33 min
Episode 347 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 23
In this twenty-third installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we revisit Jack Ruby’s infamous summer 1959 trip to Cuba and unravel the paper trail that shatters sixty years of official cover stories. For decades, the Warren Commission portrayed Ruby's presence in Havana as an innocent, week-long vacation, backed by a single postcard sent to his girlfriend Alice Nichols from the FOCSA building. However, official Cuban immigration tourist cards and federal archives expose a massive ...
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S7 · E345 · 7 Sep 2026 · 31 min
Episode 345 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 21
With Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated in the basement of City Hall, the grand trial of the century evaporated in a single flash of gunfire, leaving a paralyzed nation to wonder whether Jack Ruby’s bullet was an act of spontaneous, patriotic grief or a calculated underworld silencer’s strike. In this revealing twenty-first installment, we look past the smoking gun to explore who Jack Ruby really was, starting with a fierce internal struggle inside the Warren Commission itself. In the...
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S7 · E344 · 5 Sep 2026 · 25 min
Episode 344 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 20
In this climactic twentieth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we explore the jaw-dropping chronology of Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, when Jack Ruby stepped out of the shadows of the Dallas Police basement to execute Lee Harvey Oswald on live television. We begin by highlighting the ultimate chronological paradox: at 10:00 a.m.—the exact hour the police had publicly scheduled the transfer—Ruby was still fast asleep in his South Ewing Street apartment, completely unhurried. We dism...
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S7 · E343 · 5 Sep 2026 · 17 min
Episode 343 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 19
In this gripping nineteenth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we take a seat at the table during one of the most mysterious and heavily obscured meetings of the assassination weekend: Jack Ruby’s Saturday night dinner on November 23, 1963, at the glittering, mob-financed Dallas Cabana Motor Hotel. Ostensibly a playground for mid-century celebrities, the Cabana was built using millions from Jimmy Hoffa’s Teamsters pension fund and was managed by close associates of organized crime. Thou...
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S7 · E342 · 5 Sep 2026 · 22 min
Episode 342 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 18
In this gripping eighteenth installment of the Jack Ruby miniseries, we peel back the layers of the fateful weekend of November 22-23, 1963, to examine the suspicious, hour-by-hour movements of Dallas’s most volatile nightclub owner. We begin by dismantling the sixty-year-old alibi surrounding the late-night "Jackson Street rendezvous" between Jack, off-duty patrolman Harry Olsen, and Carousel stripper Kathy Kay. Although the Warren Commission accepted the story that the trio bumped into each...
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S7 · E341 · 31 Aug 2026 · 17 min
Episode 341 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 17
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