On this day in 1963, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby (below) shot
and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.
The pistol that Jack Ruby used to kill Lee Harvey
Oswald.
It was on November 22, two days before the shooting of Oswald.
On this day in 1971, hijacker Dan Cooper, known as D.B. Cooper, parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state
with $200,000 in ransom money.
August 1972