On November 24, 1963, in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters, a man in a fedora lunged from a crowd of reporters and shot Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television. This episode moves past the two-dimensional silhouette to explore the chaotic, contradictory life of Jack Ruby.

We trace his unstable Chicago childhood, foster care, mob-adjacent errands, and his desperate, lifelong need to be a somebody. In Dallas he ran nightclubs, courted the police force, and lived on a hair trigger. We follow the scrutinized timeline of the shooting, the Western Union receipt, the dog left in the car, his trial, and the enduring debate over whether he was a pawn or a tragic eccentric.

• How the military's rigid structure briefly held his personality together
• The transactional relationship he built with the Dallas police
• H ...