jack ruby is just waking up, and he gets to the western union down the block at 11:17. is brought out. if that's a guy who was plotting it, boy, he was taking a lot of chances that he was going to miss him even though they were supposed to be there an hour earlier. he also had another opportunity to shoot oswald two days before, and if he was a hired assassin or part of a conspiracy, why wouldn't he have done it the first time he had an opportunity? i'm convinced this was the act of a mentally unstable man who thought he was going to be a hero by shooting lee harvey oswald and instead became a historical enigma i would say. >> you say a lot of the conspiracy theories that follow the assassination were sparked by this trial specifically, and we think about all of those conspiracies linked to the shooting, but how did this trial add to the layers of all of that? >> because there were so many questions left unanswered in this case. there was an effort to say, can we stipulate to the fact that oswald acted alone? no. another question went unanswered about whether ruby and o