Photograph of courtroom sketch of witness Dr. John Holbrook at Ruby trial
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Photograph of courtroom sketch of witness Dr. John Holbrook at Ruby trial
Photograph of courtroom pencil sketch on paper by CBS News courtroom artist Howard Brodie. The sketch shows witness Dr. John Holbrook during the Jack Ruby trial on March 11, 1964. The sketch shows Dr. Holbrook seated in the witness stand with a microphone positioned in front of him. A female courtroom reporter is visible seated in front of the witness stand taking notes. In the foreground is a figure that is likely District Attorney Henry Wade. Handwritten captions in the upper right corner and the bottom right corner of the image respectively read "Dr. Holbrook" and "3/11/64." Brodie made the original pencil sketches for CBS News during the trial of Jack Ruby after the judge barred cameras from the courtroom. Brodie then gave Joe Tonahill this photograph of a courtroom sketch as part of a collection of more than 40 in 1964.
Photograph of courtroom sketch of witness Dr. John Holbrook at Ruby trial
03/11/1964
Paper
14 3/8 × 19 3/16 in. (36.5 × 48.7 cm)
Tonahill Family Partners Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.034.0020
Howard Brodie (1915-2010) was a sports artist for the San Francisco Chronicle when he enlisted in the U.S. Army with America's entry into World War II. He ultimately became one of the best-known sketch artists of the war, frequently published in the weekly U.S. military magazine, Yank, which ran from June 1942 to December 1945. After the war, Brodie spent the next thirty-five years as a courtroom artist, attending several notable trials including the Chicago Seven, Charles Manson and, of course, the Jack Ruby trial in 1964. For the Ruby trial, Brodie worked as a CBS-TV artist correspondent. Mr. Brodie recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2006. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Dr. John T. Holbrook, a former colleague of Dr. Robert Stubblefield who had testified immediately prior, was a psychiatrist on the staff of Beverly Hills Hospital in Dallas at the time of the Jack Ruby trial. Holbrook first met with Ruby the day after the Oswald shooting and had examined him on several subsequent occasions. He concluded that Ruby knew "right from wrong" and was aware of "the nature and consequences of his act [shooting Lee Harvey Oswald] at the time." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Photograph of courtroom sketch of witness Dr. John Holbrook at Ruby trial
Photograph of courtroom pencil sketch on paper by CBS News courtroom artist Howard Brodie. The sketch shows witness Dr. John Holbrook during the Jack Ruby trial on March 11, 1964. The sketch shows Dr. Holbrook seated in the witness stand with a microphone positioned in front of him. A female courtroom reporter is visible seated in front of the witness stand taking notes. In the foreground is a figure that is likely District Attorney Henry Wade. Handwritten captions in the upper right corner and the bottom right corner of the image respectively read "Dr. Holbrook" and "3/11/64." Brodie made the original pencil sketches for CBS News during the trial of Jack Ruby after the judge barred cameras from the courtroom. Brodie then gave Joe Tonahill this photograph of a courtroom sketch as part of a collection of more than 40 in 1964.
Photograph of courtroom sketch of witness Dr. John Holbrook at Ruby trial
03/11/1964
Photographs
Jack Ruby trial
Sketches
Witnesses
Trials
Artist
Artwork
Brodie, Howard
Holbrook, John T., M.D.
Wade, Henry M.
CBS News
Dallas
Paper
14 3/8 × 19 3/16 in. (36.5 × 48.7 cm)
Tonahill Family Partners Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.034.0020
Howard Brodie (1915-2010) was a sports artist for the San Francisco Chronicle when he enlisted in the U.S. Army with America's entry into World War II. He ultimately became one of the best-known sketch artists of the war, frequently published in the weekly U.S. military magazine, Yank, which ran from June 1942 to December 1945. After the war, Brodie spent the next thirty-five years as a courtroom artist, attending several notable trials including the Chicago Seven, Charles Manson and, of course, the Jack Ruby trial in 1964. For the Ruby trial, Brodie worked as a CBS-TV artist correspondent. Mr. Brodie recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2006. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Dr. John T. Holbrook, a former colleague of Dr. Robert Stubblefield who had testified immediately prior, was a psychiatrist on the staff of Beverly Hills Hospital in Dallas at the time of the Jack Ruby trial. Holbrook first met with Ruby the day after the Oswald shooting and had examined him on several subsequent occasions. He concluded that Ruby knew "right from wrong" and was aware of "the nature and consequences of his act [shooting Lee Harvey Oswald] at the time." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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