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NATION, Page 35American NotesMEMORABILIAThe Gun That Jack Shot
Shoes, belt, a gray felt hat and a dark suit, still neatly
pressed after 25 years, all rest in the Dallas office of lawyer
Jules Mayer, a kind of macabre shrine to his former client Jack
Ruby. Missing from this memento mori: the .38-cal. Colt Cobra
that killed Lee Harvey Oswald. This bizarre souvenir of the
assassination may be worth as much as $250,000 at auction. At
least that's what Mayer claims as he squabbles with Ruby's two
brothers and two sisters over who has rights to the gun.
Ruby, who died of cancer more than three years after
shooting Oswald, left two disputed wills: one names Mayer
executor of his estate. According to Jack's brother Earl Ruby,
another will, written in the hospital but unsigned because Ruby
died ten minutes before the witness arrived, leaves the weapon
to his family. Whoever gets the gun will sell it, but the
proceeds could be quickly eaten up. Taxes owed to Texas and the
IRS top $100,000, says Mayer, and he claims he is owed $60,000.