"The men and women who served as the jurors in the trial of Jack Ruby were exeptional in that it became their singular duty to sit in judgment on a man who played a bizarre and bloody role in perhaps the most controversial event of the twentieth century. They were ordinary in that nothing in their lives before or after the trial in February and March of 1964 has distinguished them from millions of their fellow citizens. The lived happily in quiet anonymity with the glaring exception of the nearly four weeks of the Ruby trial. For those few weeks, their pictures, names, and life stories appeared countless times in newspapers and magazines worldwide."

"During the course of the trial, Causey kept a longhand diary in a reporter's notebook, beginning on the second day of his term as a juror. He continued keeping notes day-by-day as the trial continued, ending on Saturday, March 14, when the jury delivered its verdict. He then wrote a short epilogue. Later, he wrote a memoir from the diary he kept during the trial. Both the memoir and the diary are presented here, augmented with editor's notes taken from the trial transcripts, books, and newspaper and magazine articles and interviews with some of the surviving jurors."--Jacket.