Do You Have Anything to Say in Your Decomposition?

(Don strikes again)
Ike Pappas, unindicted co-conspirator of Jack Ruby in the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, has died of heart disease at the age of 75. On November 24, 1963, as the Dallas Police Department performed the least secure transfer of a prisoner in the history of law enforcement, Pappas was one of several dozen reporters on hand and he yelled out a question, asking Oswald, “Do you have anything to say in your defense,” distracting him long enough for nightclub owner Jack Ruby to get up close and fire a shot into his gut. An arm’s length away from the shooting, Pappas could only muster: “There’s a shot! Oswald has been shot. Oswald has been shot. A shot rang out. Mass confusion here. All the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel.”