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Ruby Wingtips From Oswald Shooting

Certainly many Americans have wondered what it would be like to "walk in the shoes" of men like Jack Ruby who shaped American history in significant ways. When he tied his laces before leaving home that day, was he clear in his intent to kill the President's assassin, or was he still unsure? What goes through the mind of a killer when performing the same routine tasks as the rest of us? We may never know, but unique reminders of Ruby's legacy remain, including the shoes that carried him to his defining moment. These size 11 men's shoes, black wing-tip style, were worn by Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald. "The Florsheim Shoe/Imperial Quality" is written in gilt inside each shoe. Style number "189376 GC" is marked in ink inside each shoe, and "Florsheim/Imperial" is written in white on the left inside edge of the right shoe. "Jack Ruby" is written in black ink on the inside of each shoe. Includes a photocopy of the first three pages of "Accounting of Independent Executor" in the Probate Court No. 2 of Dallas County, Texas, identifying these shoes as "worn by Jack L. Ruby at the moment he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963." Sale History: Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions, February 1992