Two of the Jews sent down from the north were Jack and Eva Rubenstein, brother and sister. Jack had a tough, calculating mind, callous by an early childhood that taught distrust and survival at any cost.

Jacob Leon Rubenstein, born 1912, was reared by a “low” Jewish family on Chicago’s South Side. It was a tough area of poor families where it was not safe for “good people” to go. His mother was illiterate and his father an abusive drunk.

American Jews are divided into two classes. A “low” Jewish family’s ancestors came from the Balkan area of Europe, where Arab blood had mixed in. The “high” Jew had more Jewish blood mixed with western blood. The “highs” look down upon the “lows”, much the same as a Negro with white blood considered himself better than a full blooded Negro.

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The choice to use Oswald was an easy one. Oswald’s undoing was his continuous bragging about what a good shot he was. About his Marine training he would end it by saying “I’m a sharpshooter” Moreover he was not a man who studied current events. Ruby had met Oswald several years earlier in Cuba during one of  his gun running trips to the Island. Selling guns to Batista was illegal long before Castro ran him out of the cuntry. The United States made it doubly illeagle after Castro and his fatigues  took control. To Marcello, the more illegal the act, the greater the profit.

Story continued on Page 338 of Candy Barr, The Book.