January 3, 1967 - Jack Ruby dies before second trial at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas

News Conference, Parkland Memorial Hospital. Dr Eugene Frenkel who headed the medical team treating Jack Ruby and Dr Earl Rose.
Dallas County Medical Examiner Earl Rose said at a news conference Jack Ruby's cancer originated in the lungs and spread from there to the brain and other places.
''The question is, was this tumor in the brain there in 1963, but Ruby's x-rays in 1964 did not show a tumor of the lung and thus it could not have spread into the brain,'' Rose said. He also said doctors found no evidence of epilepsy or of other brain disorders.
Because of his death, Henry Wade, district attorney, said he would dismiss the murder charge against Ruby. "Of course Jack died not a convicted man," his Dallas attorney, Phil Burleson, said. Ruby had been convicted of murdering Oswald and given a death sentence in his first trial in Dallas in March, 1964.
Nightclub owner Jack Ruby, 55, died of cancer on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He had been ill about four weeks. The cancer had spread into his lymph glands, lungs and pancreas.
Ruby's body was flown back to Chicago, Illinois. Ruby had requested a burial in keeping with the Jewish religion and tradition. The body of Jack Ruby was taken into the Hershey Weinstein funeral home by funeral directors. He was buried in Chicago in the cemetery where his parents were interred.
Pallbearers, followed by brother Earl Ruby and sister Eva Grant, family and friends, trundle the casket of Jack Ruby to his gravesite in the family plot in Westlawn Cemetery on Chicago's northwest side, Ill., Jan. 6, 1967.