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Image of Jack Ruby with lawyer Sam H. Clinton

Original black and white negative on Kodak Safety Film taken by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey. The image shows Jack Ruby sitting at a table in a courtroom, beside laywer Sam H. Clinton. Journalist Robert Huffaker can be seen in the background on the right with a microphone in his hand.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of Jack Ruby with lawyer Sam H. Clinton

Date:

1964

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (5.7 x 5.7 cm)

Credit line:

Bill Winfrey Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2004.058.0346.0002

Curatorial Note:

Bob Huffaker covered the Jack Ruby trial for local CBS affiliate KRLD-TV. The man wearing glasses at left is WBAP-TV local reporter James Kerr. - Gary Mack, Curator

In 1964, Sam Clinton was legal counsel to the Texas Civil Liberties Union when he joined with attorney Elmer Gertz, Sol Dann and Phil Burleson to reverse Jack Ruby's conviction for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. - Gary Mack, Curator

Image of Jack Ruby with lawyer Sam H. Clinton

Original black and white negative on Kodak Safety Film taken by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey. The image shows Jack Ruby sitting at a table in a courtroom, beside laywer Sam H. Clinton. Journalist Robert Huffaker can be seen in the background on the right with a microphone in his hand.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of Jack Ruby with lawyer Sam H. Clinton

Date:

1964

Terms:

Jack Ruby trial

Photographs

Ruby, Jack

Clinton, Sam Houston, Jr.

Huffaker, Bob

Winfrey, Bill

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (5.7 x 5.7 cm)

Credit line:

Bill Winfrey Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2004.058.0346.0002

Curatorial Note:

Bob Huffaker covered the Jack Ruby trial for local CBS affiliate KRLD-TV. The man wearing glasses at left is WBAP-TV local reporter James Kerr. - Gary Mack, Curator

In 1964, Sam Clinton was legal counsel to the Texas Civil Liberties Union when he joined with attorney Elmer Gertz, Sol Dann and Phil Burleson to reverse Jack Ruby's conviction for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. - Gary Mack, Curator