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Archie Barnes Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Archie Barnes. A Dallas County deputy sheriff for twenty-six years, Barnes spent three months guarding Jack Ruby in his cell at the Dallas County Jail in 1965. Barnes and Ruby talked extensively and played board games, and Ruby drew pictures for Barnes' children. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 29, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty minutes long.
Archie Barnes Oral History
09/29/2006
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 31 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2006.001.0049
Archie Barnes passed away on January 20, 2010. The Jack Ruby drawing shown and discussed during this interview was donated to The Sixth Floor Museum by the Barnes family in 2011. It may be found here in the online collections database: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/32259. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Archie Barnes Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Archie Barnes. A Dallas County deputy sheriff for twenty-six years, Barnes spent three months guarding Jack Ruby in his cell at the Dallas County Jail in 1965. Barnes and Ruby talked extensively and played board games, and Ruby drew pictures for Barnes' children. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 29, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty minutes long.
Archie Barnes Oral History
09/29/2006
Oral histories
Ruby, Jack
Decker, Bill
Barnes, Archie
Dallas County Jail
Dallas
Law Enforcement (OHC)
Jack Ruby (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 31 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2006.001.0049
Archie Barnes passed away on January 20, 2010. The Jack Ruby drawing shown and discussed during this interview was donated to The Sixth Floor Museum by the Barnes family in 2011. It may be found here in the online collections database: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/32259. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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