First live TV murder
50 years ago
Ruby replaced
attorney Tom Howard with prominent San Francisco defense attorney Melvin Belli who
agreed to represent Ruby pro bono.
My father receives a call from Belli to join him in Dallas, TX and serve as a legal expert (specifically for my father's recent victory in a high profile "insanity" case where a boy shot his father who was the Sheriff of Baden, Pa.).
My father's partner, Paul Courtney, tells his wife that he & John (my father) would be going to Dallas to assist in representing Jack Ruby.
Recently Mrs. Courtney gave my father a copy of her personal diary from that moment in history when the whole world was watching.
Her honest insight into these events in U.S. History like no other are strikingly fascinating for me to read ... especially how she describes what it was like for her when the local Pittsburgh media caught wind.
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald dead on live television.