Feb 2024. Blues Vol 40 No. 2

have been shot to pieces if
we had pulled up alongside
Air Force One in an unmarked
police car.”
The man left Robbins to
catch a civilian flight. Robbins
said he never found out who
the man was, but he said his
involvement in the incident
wasn’t over yet.
Two days later, local club
owner Jack Ruby shot Lee
Harvey Oswald, whom police
had arrested in connection
with the Kennedy shooting, as
police were transporting Oswald
from the Dallas city jail
to the county jail.
THOUGHTS ON JACK RUBY
Robbins said he was familiar
with Ruby, saying The Carrousel
Club owner made a point
to hang around Dallas police.
“In the year prior to the assasination,
I worked the police
beat in downtown, which held
all three strip joints in Dallas,”
Robbins said. “I routinely
went to Jack Ruby’s place
as part of my regular duties.
Jack was always so friendly
and welcomed all police
officers. There was later talk
that Jack was tied in with the
local police. If he was, I didn’t
know about it. But we went
there because he was friendly.
That’s how I got to know Jack
Ruby, and that’s why I would
have an opinion about him
concerning the assassination
later.”
Robbins recalled a time
when Ruby invited him to go
bowling “probably to bolster
the friendship,” Robbins said.
He said one antic by Ruby at
the bowling alley was telling
of what he was capable of,
Robbins said.
“After the fifth or sixth
frame, Jack got a strike,”
Robbins said. “Jack ran three
lanes this way and three lanes
the other way to get people
to look at the scoreboard to
see what he had done. He was
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