Summary: A psychiatrist testifying for the defense claimed Jack Ruby was seriously unstable, had shot Oswald while in a psychotic episode, and could potentially deterioriate further if put under stress like being called as a witness. Jack Ruby would then be sentenced to death after this.
Roughly a month afterwards CIA and MKUltra connected psychiatrist Jolly West is called in to examine Ruby again as part of his appeal, Ruby has reportedly both tried to smash his head into the wall and to tear his clothes into materials for a noose on the morning before West arrives to examine him. This is reported both in Wests account and local papers.
West states in his own documents that he suggests hypnosis and sodium penthothal as part of interrogating him about the murder, but apparently abandons or fails to mention ever attempting that after seeing the state of Ruby, who is supposedly openly ranting that the US government is conducting pogroms against Jews as retaliation for his involvement, and claims to have seen his own brother immolated outside of jail, as well as hearing jews being tortured in adjacent rooms or on floors below him.
This doesnt seem to have been reported elsewhere, with West refusing to share any of these findings when asked by the same paper that reported Rubys self harm attempt, the document was apparently notarized on the same day but I frankly just dont know enough about the process of notarization to judge how legitimizing that is.
Jack Ruby would later repeat his belief that Jewish people were being exterminated in the US to the Warren commission.
So idk, there seems to be evidence suggesting he was legitimately in a bad mental state before being visited by a literal MKUltra doctor, but on the other hand he was visited by a literal MKUltra doctor, who is the first to report that he was having large scale delusions and hallucinations.
Summary: A psychiatrist testifying for the defense claimed Jack Ruby was seriously unstable, had shot Oswald while in a psychotic episode, and could potentially deterioriate further if put under stress like being called as a witness. Jack Ruby would then be sentenced to death after this.
Roughly a month afterwards CIA and MKUltra connected psychiatrist Jolly West is called in to examine Ruby again as part of his appeal, Ruby has reportedly both tried to smash his head into the wall and to tear his clothes into materials for a noose on the morning before West arrives to examine him. This is reported both in Wests account and local papers.
West states in his own documents that he suggests hypnosis and sodium penthothal as part of interrogating him about the murder, but apparently abandons or fails to mention ever attempting that after seeing the state of Ruby, who is supposedly openly ranting that the US government is conducting pogroms against Jews as retaliation for his involvement, and claims to have seen his own brother immolated outside of jail, as well as hearing jews being tortured in adjacent rooms or on floors below him.
This doesnt seem to have been reported elsewhere, with West refusing to share any of these findings when asked by the same paper that reported Rubys self harm attempt, the document was apparently notarized on the same day but I frankly just dont know enough about the process of notarization to judge how legitimizing that is.
Jack Ruby would later repeat his belief that Jewish people were being exterminated in the US to the Warren commission.
So idk, there seems to be evidence suggesting he was legitimately in a bad mental state before being visited by a literal MKUltra doctor, but on the other hand he was visited by a literal MKUltra doctor, who is the first to report that he was having large scale delusions and hallucinations.