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.
Jack Ruby talking to members of the press during his change-of-venue hearing
02/10/1964 - 02/13/1964
Film
2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0407.0002
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.
Jack Ruby talking to members of the press during his change-of-venue hearing
02/10/1964 - 02/13/1964
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
Film
2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0407.0002
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
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