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he was supposed to be executed but the death penalty overturned when he died from lung cancer before new trial.

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Jack Ruby was in jail for less than three years. He shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, and was convicted of murder on March 14, 1964. Ruby died from lung cancer on January 3, 1967, while still in prison.

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