Earl Ruby has endured a lot in the 30 years he has spent defending the name of his brother, Jack.
Now he`s enduring still more. The Detroit businessman recently watched
”Ruby,” starring Danny Aiello in the title role.
It made Earl laugh. It made him cry. It made him mad. And in the end, he called it ”disgusting.”
Earl Ruby knows that movies create fiction. But this one puts words in Jack`s mouth, motives in his pockets and guns in his hands. It has done something worse to Earl. It made him remember.
The 76-year-old financed his brother`s ventures. He paid for Jack`s unsuccessful defense in the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. He watched him die in 1967 of cancer, insolvent and unredeemed.
And he has spent almost three decades talking and testifying that Jack was just a regular guy who loved his country.
At the Detroit media preview of the film, Jack Ruby`s baby brother moved uneasily in his seat as he sought to escape the last painful minutes of the film that show his brother being given an injection in a veiled hint that he might have been murdered in prison.
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