Description
Author(s): Jr. Ferrier William
Publisher: Independently Published
Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
BISAC: Historical – General
On November 24, 1963, a Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby stepped into a police basement crowded with reporters and shot Lee Harvey Oswald dead on live television – two days after President Kennedy’s assassination, before the country had even worked out what to ask. Someone had to prosecute the man who killed the only suspect. That someone was Jim Bowie.
Ruby’s Prosecutor is built from the real life of Dallas’s First Assistant District Attorney, who stood beside legendary DA Henry Wade through the trial the nation watched to make sense of a murder no one could fully explain. Drawing on trial transcripts, appellate rulings, and the documented record of the men who tried Jack Ruby, this meticulously researched novel follows the case from the jailhouse shooting through a death sentence, a stunning reversal on appeal, and a retrial that never happened – because Ruby died first.
But the story doesn’t end with the verdict. Decades later, Bowie’s daughter and granddaughter piece his life back together from sixty hours of tape he recorded before his own death – checking his memory against the record, discovering what he got right, what he got wrong, and what a family inherits when one of its own helped write a page of American history.
Part courtroom drama, part multigenerational family reckoning, Ruby’s Prosecutor asks what it costs to win a case the whole country needed you to win – and what’s left of the man once the verdict is filed away.
For readers drawn to the Kennedy assassination, real courtroom history, and stories about what families choose to remember.
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