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Jack Ruby Signed Jail Letter

Jack Ruby AMS. "Jack Ruby" on first page, 14 full pages, 4" by 6", on 14 separate sheets. Written by Ruby in pencil from jail at the request of his brother Earl, after Jack was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Begins, "Here are the facts about Jack Ruby!! I spent three years working with the newspapers securing subscriptions for the Call-Bulletin and San Francisco Examiner at times having my own crew. These were depression years 1934 - 1937. Came back to Chicago my home in 1937. Became a field organizer for Local 20467 my salary 22.50 per wk. The Wagner Labor Act had just become a law in 1937, and thought this is what the country was for, legitimate organized labor. My checks never had gone above $22.50. I left the union the latter part of 1939-Voluntarily. Went on the road selling, and in the early part of 1942 started our own mail-order business called Earl Products named it after my brother who was in Dutch Harbor. My other two brothers were also in the service. I started the company, so that all the brothers would share equally in the company. I kept the company partly intact until I went into the service..." Jack then tells of his first visit to Dallas, the building of his sister's nightclub near the Ambassador Hotel, hiring a band leader, moving back to Chicago and returning to Dallas to take over his sister's club. Unpublished. Sale History: Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions, December 1992