Breck Wall Oral History
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Breck Wall Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Breck Wall. An entertainer in Dallas who created the popular "Bottoms Up" revue, Mr. Wall was one of Jack Ruby's best friends at the time of the assassination. He spoke to Ruby on the phone from Galveston the day before Oswald was shot and was one of the few individuals allowed to visit him in the Dallas County Jail. During the controversial assassination investigation by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Wall was identified as one of several potential accomplices because of his friendship with Jack Ruby. However, no evidence was found and no charges were filed. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 28, 1993 by Bob Porter. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.
Breck Wall Oral History
12/28/1993
Hi-8 videotape
47 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1993.011.0020
Mr. Wall passed away on November 15, 2010. Ironically, just two days earlier--on November 13, 2010--Wall's oral history was featured at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza for the first time as part of a Collections Spotlight exhibit on Jack Ruby. This display, which included artifacts, photographs and oral histories related to Jack Ruby, ran through August 7, 2011. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Breck Wall appears as a club emcee in the 1964 adult feature film Naughty Dallas. Soon after the assassination, Diamond International Pictures acquired the rights to a 1959 feature titled A Stripper Is Born, a burlesque take-off on the classic A Star Is Born feature. Producers hired director Larry Buchanan to film new scenes with several of Jack Ruby's former attractions, including exotic dancer Jada and ventriloquist Bill DeMar. The performers recreated their stage routines, which were filmed at the Club Montmarte in downtown Dallas just around the corner from Ruby's Carousel Club. The new sequences, edited into A Stripper Is Born and reissued as Naughty Dallas, offer a fairly accurate look at the types of shows in strip clubs like Ruby's. Naughty Dallas, which was filmed in color, only shows an exterior view of the Carousel since Ruby's club closed in early 1964. - Gary Mack, Curator
Breck Wall Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Breck Wall. An entertainer in Dallas who created the popular "Bottoms Up" revue, Mr. Wall was one of Jack Ruby's best friends at the time of the assassination. He spoke to Ruby on the phone from Galveston the day before Oswald was shot and was one of the few individuals allowed to visit him in the Dallas County Jail. During the controversial assassination investigation by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Wall was identified as one of several potential accomplices because of his friendship with Jack Ruby. However, no evidence was found and no charges were filed. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 28, 1993 by Bob Porter. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.
Breck Wall Oral History
12/28/1993
Night clubs
Oral histories
Ruby, Jack
Wall, Breck
Dallas
Jack Ruby (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
47 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1993.011.0020
Mr. Wall passed away on November 15, 2010. Ironically, just two days earlier--on November 13, 2010--Wall's oral history was featured at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza for the first time as part of a Collections Spotlight exhibit on Jack Ruby. This display, which included artifacts, photographs and oral histories related to Jack Ruby, ran through August 7, 2011. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Breck Wall appears as a club emcee in the 1964 adult feature film Naughty Dallas. Soon after the assassination, Diamond International Pictures acquired the rights to a 1959 feature titled A Stripper Is Born, a burlesque take-off on the classic A Star Is Born feature. Producers hired director Larry Buchanan to film new scenes with several of Jack Ruby's former attractions, including exotic dancer Jada and ventriloquist Bill DeMar. The performers recreated their stage routines, which were filmed at the Club Montmarte in downtown Dallas just around the corner from Ruby's Carousel Club. The new sequences, edited into A Stripper Is Born and reissued as Naughty Dallas, offer a fairly accurate look at the types of shows in strip clubs like Ruby's. Naughty Dallas, which was filmed in color, only shows an exterior view of the Carousel since Ruby's club closed in early 1964. - Gary Mack, Curator
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