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25 Mar, 1911

Jack Ruby born in Chicago

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Ruby is born the fifth of eight children to Fannie Turek Rutkowski and Joseph Rubenstein. Ruby moves around a lot as a youth, mostly throughout the Jewish neighbourhoods of Chicago. The Rubenstein home is marked by constant strife and the parents are reported to occasionally strike each other.

[We lived] below the middle class, but yet it wasn’t the poorest class.