WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIES: RUBY AND OSWALD (TV)
Summary
A three-hour dramatization (aired on the "Wednesday Night Movies" series) of the murders of Pres. John F. Kennedy and his killer, Lee Harvey Oswald; includes authentic footage. This segment establishes Ruby's violent nature and his admiration for Kennedy; covers Oswald's marital problems and his preparations for shooting Kennedy; and depicts Kennedy's arrival and enthusiastic welcome in Dallas. Oswald shoots Kennedy and, in his escape, shoots a policeman. Closes as police capture Oswald in a movie theater.
In the aftermath of the assassination, the police hold and question Oswald and discover his rifle is missing from his home. Ruby goes to the police station and manages to secure an interview with the district attorney. Ruby stays up all night, watches TV coverage of the assassination, takes out his own gun.
Oswald is in jail as the police prepare to transfer him to the county jail. Ruby, at home, becomes frantic and goes to the police station. As Oswald is led out to be transferred, Ruby shoots him. Oswald dies on the operating table. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 8, 1978 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 2:12:51
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T78:0374
- GENRE: Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Assassination; Biography; Docudrama
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1978
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Alan Landsburg … Executive Producer
- Paul Freeman … Producer
- Mel Stuart … Director
- John McGreevey … Writer
- Michael McGreevey … Writer
- Michael Lerner … Cast, Jack Ruby
- Frederic Forrest … Cast, Lee Harvey Oswald
- Doris Roberts … Cast, Eva
- Lou Frizzel … Cast, Captain J. Will Fritz
- Bruce French … Cast, Robert Oswald
- Sandy McPeak … Cast, District Attorney Wade
- Lanna Saunders … Cast, Marina Oswald
- Sandy Ward … Cast, Chief Curry
- James E. Brodhead … Cast, Judge Johnston
- Brian Dennehy … Cast, George Paulsen
- Gwynne Gilford … Cast, Little Lynn
- Gordon Jump … Cast, Clyde Gaydosh
- Eric Kilpatrick … Cast, Andy Armstrong
- Walter Matthews … Cast, George
- Michael Pataki … Cast, "Ika" Pappas
- Al Ruscio … Cast, Nat Ryan
- Jodean Russo … Cast, Phyllis Noonan
- Richard Sanders … Cast, Agent Kelley
- Vickery Turner … Cast, Wanda Killem
- Max Anderson … Cast, Deputy Eugene Boone
- Lewis Arquette … Cast, FBI Agent
- Robert Bryan Berger … Cast, Smokey
- Dean Brooks … Cast, Policeman
- Ed Call … Cast, Cecil McWatters
- Raymond Colbert … Cast, Jim Chaney
- Molly Dodd … Cast, Woman on Bus
- David Leroy Dorr … Cast, Wesley Frazier
- Jessie Lee Fulton … Cast, Older Woman
- John William Galt … Cast, William Whaley
- Phyllis Glick … Cast, Ottney Gurley
- Margie Gordon … Cast, Marilyn Moon
- James Hall … Cast, Postal Clerk
- Bill Joyce … Cast, Doctor
- Delbert Henry Knight Sr. … Cast, Junior Jarman
- Jim Lough … Cast, Policeman
- Chip Lucia … Cast, John Brewer
- Lillah McCarthy … Cast, Secretary
- Dick McGarvin … Cast, Reporter
- John R. MacLean … Cast, Policeman
- Jim Mendenhall … Cast, Charles Batchelor
- Anthony Palmer … Cast, Bail Bondsman
- Georgie Paul … Cast, Lydia Witcher
- Richard Roat … Cast, H.D. Holmes
- Michael Schwartz … Cast, Reporter
- Adriana Shaw … Cast, Helen Markham
- Amanda Sherman … Cast, June
- Hillel Silverman … Cast, Himself
- Bill Sorrells … Cast, Drunk Businessman
- Jon Terry … Cast, Detective
- Lesley Woods … Cast, Ruth