Jack Ruby talking to members of the press during his change-of-venue hearing

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Jack Ruby talking to members of the press during his change-of-venue hearing

Original 120mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. Jack Ruby is seated at a table surrounded by a crowd of reporters and photographers in a courtroom in Dallas, Texas. The image was taken in February 1964, during Ruby's change-of-venue hearing. Ruby sits between his lawyers, Joe Tonahill on the viewer's left and Melvin Belli, who is sitting to the viewer's right in front of Ruby with his back to the camera.

Object Details
Object title:

Jack Ruby talking to members of the press during his change-of-venue hearing

Date:

02/10/1964 - 02/13/1964

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)

Credit line:

The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history

Object number:

2014.080.0407.0002

Curatorial Note:

The balding man in glasses seated on Jack Ruby's left is Ruby's first attorney, the late Tom Howard. Howard began representing Ruby immediately after the Oswald shooting, though he left the team before it went to trial due to disputes with lead defense attorney Melvin Belli.The unobscured female reporter in the center background is the late Patsy Swank, a stringer for LIFE Magazine at the time. In addition to covering Jack Ruby's trial and pre-trial hearings, Swank is credited with alerting LIFE publishers that a Dallas dress manufacturer named Abraham Zapruder had captured a home movie of the Kennedy assassination. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Jack Ruby talking to members of the press during his change-of-venue hearing

Original 120mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. Jack Ruby is seated at a table surrounded by a crowd of reporters and photographers in a courtroom in Dallas, Texas. The image was taken in February 1964, during Ruby's change-of-venue hearing. Ruby sits between his lawyers, Joe Tonahill on the viewer's left and Melvin Belli, who is sitting to the viewer's right in front of Ruby with his back to the camera.

Object Details
Object title:

Jack Ruby talking to members of the press during his change-of-venue hearing

Date:

02/10/1964 - 02/13/1964

Terms:

Photographs

Jack Ruby trial

Press

Photographer

Press conference

Ruby, Jack

Tonahill, Joe H.

Belli, Melvin

Swank, Patsy

Howard, Tom

Bockemehl, Herbert Albert

Linn, Travis

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)

Credit line:

The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history

Object number:

2014.080.0407.0002

Curatorial Note:

The balding man in glasses seated on Jack Ruby's left is Ruby's first attorney, the late Tom Howard. Howard began representing Ruby immediately after the Oswald shooting, though he left the team before it went to trial due to disputes with lead defense attorney Melvin Belli.The unobscured female reporter in the center background is the late Patsy Swank, a stringer for LIFE Magazine at the time. In addition to covering Jack Ruby's trial and pre-trial hearings, Swank is credited with alerting LIFE publishers that a Dallas dress manufacturer named Abraham Zapruder had captured a home movie of the Kennedy assassination. - Stephen Fagin, Curator