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Jack Ruby's Trial Moves From Side Stage To Center In 'Kennedy's Avenger'

Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell a gripping tale that takes readers into the heart of Ruby's trial, picking up the moment he killed Oswald and then methodically unpacking what followed.
<em>Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby,</em> by Dan Abrams and David Fisher

On Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was riding in the back of a car as his presidential motorcade wound its way through Dealey Plaza. A second later, a bullet entered his head and ended his life.

JFK's assassination shook the world, but that was only the beginning of a series of bizarre events. Almost an hour later, Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassin, was arrested in a

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