….ON THE subject of high-profile murders, Tuesday’s New York Times contained an obituary of a longtime UW-Madison neurologist who testified on the last day of testimony in the 1964 trial of Jack Ruby for fatally shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald, of course, had been arrested and charged with murder in the death of President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Francis M. Forster, who died last month in Cincinnati at 94, was living on North Prospect Avenue in Madison in March 1964 when the prosecution in the Ruby case called him during its rebuttal to Ruby’s defense case put on by famed attorney Melvin Belli.