Jack Ruby

 
Rick Danko, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson - in The Last Waltz

 Sitting in the movie theater in Boston, watching The Last Waltz, when I heard Robbie Robertson say, "it was Jack Ruby's club" - I was very surprised.  

It was an impactful moment, in some kind of a way.

        I wasn't expecting to hear the name "Jack Ruby" and it struck me and stayed with me.

Jack Ruby - the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald two days after Oswald allegedly shot and killed President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

I was a little child when that happened - it was the year before I started kindergarten.

(My father jumped up out of his chair and cried out, "My God, they shot him!")

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When I was at that movie, I probably had not thought about the name "Jack Ruby" in eleven or twelve years.

        To me, at that age, it was an ancient memory that came jolting out.

The memory of hearing that name in the movie went back into my Memories and floated there, near the memory of the day when Pres. Kennedy was killed, and the memory of the day when Oswald was on TV, being moved from one jail to another, with a crowd of people, and a sudden chaos on the television screen, & later on, the name "Jack Ruby."

One of those occasions where Time seems to collapse and fold up on itself, as events line up in our minds.

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