Listen to a recording of Metsa's recording on. Metsa doesn't think we'll ever really know what happened. But more than two decades after he wrote it, the mystery of the JFK assassination hasn't been resolved, at least not to the satisfaction of the American people. And when New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison pieced together his conspiracy theory about gay businessman Clay Shaw, Garrison described Wall as 'Ruby’s queer ex-roommate.' 'Garrison was a real jerk. In 1964, the Warren Commission questioned Wall about his friendship with Ruby.
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In "Jack Ruby," Metsa pleads for witnesses to come forward, for the truth to be revealed. Wall is a minor figure in the Ruby-Oswald saga. "And I didn't write it as a private detective, although in a way that's what you turn out to be when you start to study it. "I didn't write it as a conspiracy researcher, although in a way I was," he said. Metsa has his own theory involving a wide-ranging conspiracy, but he's proud he left questions unanswered in "Jack Ruby." "He was such, I believe, a key player in tying together the rogue elements for the various facets of the conspiracy, I felt I could best build the song on his life story," he said. With every biographical verse, the conspiratorial possibilities widen. Metsa's song traces Ruby's evolution from an Al Capone errand boy in Chicago to nightclub owner in Dallas, with ties to Cuba, the mob, and the police. "The more you read about Jack Ruby, the deeper into the rabbit hole you get with the whole conspiracy."
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"Well, he's a bit of an anti-hero, really," he said. "And boom I was off to the races."īut the song doesn't aim to make a folk hero out of Jack Ruby. "At that point it just dropped down from the sky - 'Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby, in a Cavanagh hat, whoever taught you to shoot a pistol like that, you snuck in the basement and you stood in the back, Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby in a Cavanagh hat' - and I had the chorus," Metsa said. As he began writing songs, he started to picture the most nefarious underworld figure associated with the assassination, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. He read every conspiracy book he could find. Like many, he questioned the findings of the Warren Commission established to investigate the president's death and its lone gunman theory. In his late 20s, Metsa became consumed by the assassination. He wrote "Jack Ruby" more than 21 years ago, but the questions at the heart of the tune still plague the nation. The 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination has provided an opportunity for Metsa, a Minnesota folk musician, to dust off one of his most haunting songs. "It was the first time in my life, as a young white middle class American, where I really felt the presence of evil." "Jack Ruby appears and shoots Lee Harvey Oswald. "And then boom, all of a sudden it happened," he recalled.
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Metsa remembers sitting with his parents, riveted by the live TV coverage, as they watched authorities transfer suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald from the Dallas police station jail to a maximum security prison. Paul Metsa was an eight-year-old growing up on the Iron Range when President John F.