{"id":16454,"date":"2023-11-28T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16454"},"modified":"2023-11-28T12:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:55:46","slug":"episode-565-danny-fingeroth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-565-danny-fingeroth","title":{"rendered":"Episode 565 – Danny Fingeroth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 565:
\nDanny Fingeroth<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I figured my entry point into a JFK assassination book would be Jack Ruby, given my interest in offbeat \u2014 to say the least \u2014 American Jews.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With the 60th anniversary of the assassinations of JFK & Lee Harvey Oswald, Danny Fingeroth<\/a> brings us the new biography, JACK RUBY: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin<\/a> (Chicago Review Press). Danny & I talk about what drew him to tell Ruby’s story, how many JFK conspiracy rabbit-holes he had to avoid, the challenges of separating Ruby’s life from myth & speculation, and how the bio began as a graphic novel collaboration with Rick Geary<\/a> (!) before its prose incarnation (although he’s still hoping for an adaptation). We get into what he learned from talking to Ruby’s rabbi, Hillel Silverstein, the figures he would have loved to interview for this book, what Ruby’s siblings & their kids went through in the aftermath of Jack’s moment of infamy, the circus of Ruby’s murder trial and Melvin Belli<\/a>‘s failed epilepsy defense, and the danger of treating Ruby’s life like a sitcom. We also discuss Danny’s dizzying r\u00e9sum\u00e9, including his 20-year run as a writer & editor at Marvel Comics, discovering himself as a biographer with Stan Lee: A Marvelous Life<\/a>, the complexity of the (working) relationships of Lee, Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko, the surreal of experience of meeting Gabe Kaplan<\/a> while promoting JACK RUBY<\/em>, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read JACK RUBY: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Every conspiracy needed some kind of patch to make their theory work, and a lot of them depended on an astonishing quantity of coincidences or luck.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n