According to the film Jack Ruby there are many reasons as to why the Mafia wanted John F. Kennedy. Discuss.

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Jack Ruby started of as a small time club owner in Dallas called the Carousel Club. He also did small time bootlegging. Some indications that Jack Ruby was a player in Dallas or in the Mafia was that when ever he was arrested he seemed to be let of with a small fine or even nothing and it always the same day. This suggests he had connections with the Dallas Police.

At some point Jack Ruby went to Cuba and met a man that was in the Mafia supposedly. This man told Jack Ruby to kill Santos Trafficanta, which happened to be Jack Ruby's friend. The thing he did next made him a big player, Jack Ruby decided instead of killing Santos Trafficanta he would kill the man who asked him to kill Santos Trafficanta. When Mafia found out about this they thought that they could use him, a small time Mafia person to do their dirty work so they invited him to Las Vegas. When he got there they asked him to kill Fidel Castro. He declined. The Mafia then decided not to use his club as a Mafia meeting place but to use Jack Ruby's rivals club instead.
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There aren't many indications that Jack Ruby had connections with the CIA. There is one main link that Jack Ruby was involved with the CIA, this was a man supposedly named Maxwell. Maxwell followed Jack Ruby for quite a while and saw him kill the Mafia man in Cuba. Then Maxwell turned up at his club the Carousel. They talked for a while. Apart from this there are no other links between Jack Ruby and the CIA even after my extensive research.

There is no real reliable source as to why Jack Ruby of Dallas killed Lee ...

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