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- NATION, Page 35American NotesMEMORABILIAThe Gun That Jack Shot
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- Shoes, belt, a gray felt hat and a dark suit, still neatly
- pressed after 25 years, all rest in the Dallas office of lawyer
- Jules Mayer, a kind of macabre shrine to his former client Jack
- Ruby. Missing from this memento mori: the .38-cal. Colt Cobra
- that killed Lee Harvey Oswald. This bizarre souvenir of the
- assassination may be worth as much as $250,000 at auction. At
- least that's what Mayer claims as he squabbles with Ruby's two
- brothers and two sisters over who has rights to the gun.
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- Ruby, who died of cancer more than three years after
- shooting Oswald, left two disputed wills: one names Mayer
- executor of his estate. According to Jack's brother Earl Ruby,
- another will, written in the hospital but unsigned because Ruby
- died ten minutes before the witness arrived, leaves the weapon
- to his family. Whoever gets the gun will sell it, but the
- proceeds could be quickly eaten up. Taxes owed to Texas and the
- IRS top $100,000, says Mayer, and he claims he is owed $60,000.
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