DALLAS, Nov. 4, 2009
Jack Ruby's Hat to be Auctioned in Dallas
Expected to Sell for More Than $35,000
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Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, reacts as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas police headquarters, Nov. 24, 1963. (AP)
Heritage Auctions scheduled an auction Saturday for the Cavanagh fedora.
President John F. Kennedy was slain on Nov. 22, 1963. Oswald was arrested for the assassination. Ruby fatally shot Oswald on Nov. 24, in an attack captured during a live TV broadcast as the suspected assassin was being escorted by law officers.
Ruby was convicted of killing Oswald and sentenced to death, but was appealing when he died of cancer in 1967.
The auction house estimates the fedora, with Ruby's name embossed inside in gold and the cost of the hat, will sell for more than $35,000.
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