Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Jack Ruby: did they ever get wild with his hair. And sometimes they just got lazy about it, and I mean careless. First, understand something: he was practically bald on top. A few thin sparse strands was all he had. It was so little that he didn't comb his hair on top, and we know that from a video taken in 1960. But, here he is on the night of the JFK assassination. This was him about 32 hours before the Oswald shooting. Don't mistakenly think he had a tuft of hair on top. That was somebody behind him. 

Here is another, and this was from his trial in March 1964. And note that it was retouched. Lower right, they got carried away.

They loved giving Jack Ruby a diagonal part. Here, it's on the left.

But, more often, they put it on the right, and this one is flagrantly fake. Have you ever seen anyone with hair like this? They weren't even trying to be realistic on this one. 

Nor here either. They just went crazy with the Sharpie. Anyone can color.

And sometimes, they just threw caution to the wind and gave him a mop. 

So, why did they do this? It was because the Garage Shooter had such a thick mane in back. How could he be bald on top? Look at it all curling up at the bottom. It's a wig. Bookhout's wig.