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- <text id=92TT0006>
- <title>
- Jan. 06, 1992: American Notes:Auctions
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 06, 1992 Man of the Year:Ted Turner
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 55
- American Notes
- AUCTIONS
- Have Gun, Will Gavel
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Whatever questions surround the assassination of John F.
- Kennedy, there has never been any doubt about who killed Lee
- Harvey Oswald. On Nov. 24, 1963, two days after he was arrested
- for Kennedy's killing, Oswald was shot to death in the basement
- of Dallas' municipal building by strip-joint operator Jack Ruby
- as a stunned nation watched on live television. Last week the
- gun used in the killing went on the auction block in New York
- City. The .38-cal. Colt Cobra revolver, which Ruby had bought
- for $62.50 at a Dallas gun shop, sold for $220,000.
- </p>
- <p> The seller was Earl Ruby, who insists that his brother
- Jack was not part of any conspiracy and did not even intend to
- kill Oswald. "He just wanted to hurt him and make him suffer,"
- said Earl, who got possession of the gun in August after
- winning a court battle for control of Jack's estate. Earl will
- use the money to cover debts, including an $86,000 tax bill,
- that his brother left after he died in jail in 1967 while
- awaiting a retrial. Like so much else in the story of the
- Kennedy assassination, the identity of the purchaser remains a
- mystery. The bidder, Frank Roman, says he bought the pistol on
- behalf of an anonymous gun collector.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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