On this day in 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is in turn assassinated in the garage of a Dallas Tx. police station by Jack Ruby who is a strip club owner with ties to the Chicago and Dallas Mobs.

Oswald was born in New Orleans and spent his teenage years living in Exchange Alley on the outskirts of the French Quarter which was a haven for pimps, prostitutes and gamblers at the time.

Oswald’s uncle, Charles “Dutz” Murret, was a small time numbers runner for Sam Saia who ran operations from a French Quarter restaurant called Felix’s Oyster House.

Saia was a member of the New Orleans Family. Oswald worked for his uncle in the summer of 1963 just before the assassination.

He’s buried in St. Bernard Cemetery in Chalmette Louisiana.

On this day in 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, the twenty-four-year-old accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was himself shot dead in the basement garage of Dallas Police Headquarters. The killer was Jack Ruby, a nightclub and strip joint owner with well-documented ties to both the Chicago and Dallas underworlds. Two days after the most shocking political murder of the twentieth century, the only man who could have answered the world's most pressing questions was silenced forever in front of a bank of press cameras, leaving behind a tangle of mob connections that investigators and historians are still pulling at six decades later.

Oswald's links to the criminal underworld did not begin with Ruby's bullet. He was born in New Orleans and spent formative years living on Exchange Alley, a grimy stretch on the fringes of the French Quarter that served as an open-air marketplace for pimps, prostitutes, bookmakers and petty criminals. It was precisely the kind of neighbourhood that produced men who understood, instinctively, how the shadow economy worked.

His most direct connection to organised crime ran through his uncle, Charles "Dutz" Murret, a small-time numbers runner operating beneath the umbrella of Sam Saia. Saia was a made member of the New Orleans crime family and ran his affairs out of Felix's Oyster House, a French Quarter restaurant that functioned as both a legitimate eatery and a quiet hub for illegal gambling operations. In the summer of 1963, just months before Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Oswald worked for his uncle, meaning he was, however tenuously, on the payroll of a family-connected gambling network at the very moment history was being made around him.

Jack Ruby's own mob pedigree added further fuel to the conspiracy theories that ignited almost immediately after Oswald's death. Ruby had known associations with figures tied to the Chicago Outfit, the powerful organisation that had once been shaped by Al Capone and later guided by men like Sam Giancana, who himself had documented grievances against the Kennedy administration following the Bay of Pigs disaster and the Justice Department's aggressive pursuit of organised crime under Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

Oswald was buried at Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas, in a ceremony so sparsely attended that reporters had to act as pallbearers. His death ensured that the full truth behind November 22nd, 1963, would remain one of the most debated and disputed events in American history. The mob's fingerprints, whether directly on the trigger or simply lurking at the edges, have never been fully wiped clean.