Let's say Ruby pleads guilty to the lesser charge offered and then his lawyer goes on a publicity tour trying to get Ruby pardoned. Will he have problems getting signatures? Will the governor be under so much pressure he will pardon him?
Can anyone think of a reason that he wouldn't be pardoned?
Becaue TEH EVOL CONSPIRACY wouldn't allow it.![]()
If he does that, I think there would be a very good chance that Ruby might be granted a pardon.
Dallas, Texas in 1963 was a fervently anti-communist city and a hotbed of the right-wing (Adlai Stevenson was attacked and spit on by a mob there some time earlier). Oswald had defected to the USSR years before, and now he had killed President Kennedy and Officer Tippit - so they would probably think Ruby gave him what he deserved.
(I saw a news clip from that time where one man said that Ruby "should be given the Congressional Medal of Honor for killing that Communist".)
Also, as I recall, Ruby was already suffering from cancer when he shot Oswald - maybe he could gain a pardon as he might not have much time left to live.