Dr. Thurman Ray Oral History
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Dr. Thurman Ray Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. Thurman Ray. A Dallas optometrist, Ray treated Jack Ruby as a patient from the 1950s through Ruby's death in 1967. During Jack Ruby's incarceration at the Dallas County Jail, he repeatedly broke or damaged his eyeglasses. Ray recalled creating new pairs that were provided to Ruby's sister, Eva Grant. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 11, 2009 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty minutes long.
Dr. Thurman Ray Oral History
03/11/2009
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 30 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2009.001.0015
Dr. Thurman Ray passed away on April 9, 2020. The Museum's Al Maddox Collection includes what is believed to be Jack Ruby's last pair of eyeglasses (2004.008.0001). According to Maddox, then a Dallas County deputy sheriff, Ruby used a pair of London Fog eyeglasses in his room at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Maddox retained those glasses after Ruby's passing on January 3, 1967, and later donated them to The Sixth Floor Museum in 2006. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Dr. Thurman Ray Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. Thurman Ray. A Dallas optometrist, Ray treated Jack Ruby as a patient from the 1950s through Ruby's death in 1967. During Jack Ruby's incarceration at the Dallas County Jail, he repeatedly broke or damaged his eyeglasses. Ray recalled creating new pairs that were provided to Ruby's sister, Eva Grant. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 11, 2009 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty minutes long.
Dr. Thurman Ray Oral History
03/11/2009
Trials
Jack Ruby trial
Oral histories
Ray, Thurman
Ruby, Jack
Grant, Eva
Dallas County Criminal Courts Building
Dallas County Jail
Jack Ruby (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 30 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2009.001.0015
Dr. Thurman Ray passed away on April 9, 2020. The Museum's Al Maddox Collection includes what is believed to be Jack Ruby's last pair of eyeglasses (2004.008.0001). According to Maddox, then a Dallas County deputy sheriff, Ruby used a pair of London Fog eyeglasses in his room at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Maddox retained those glasses after Ruby's passing on January 3, 1967, and later donated them to The Sixth Floor Museum in 2006. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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