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Notecard about Ruby trial juror Robert Flechtner from the DA's Ruby file
Notecard about Ruby trial juror Robert Flechtner from the DA's Ruby file

Notecard about Ruby trial juror Robert Flechtner from the DA's Ruby file

Object numberL2017.1.56
Date02/17/1964 - 03/03/1964
ClassificationsDocuments
Creator Dallas County District Attorney's Office
ObjectNotecard
Credit LineLoaned Courtesy the Dallas County District Attorney's Office/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumPaper
Dimensions3 × 4 15/16 in. (7.6 × 12.5 cm)
DescriptionNotecard with information compiled by the Dallas County District Attorney's Office about Robert Flechtner, who was selected to serve on the Jack Ruby trial jury. The white unlined notecard has text typed in black: "No. 94 ROBERT JACOB FLECHTNER, JR. age 27 [address], Richardson Wife Barbara Educational backgroun [sic] not known Address 0 Graph Multigraph as geo art sales- man since 1958. Trade satisfactory No suits or judgements". This object was originally part of the evidence collected by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and specifically prosecutors Henry Wade and Bill Alexander during the investigation leading up to the Jack Ruby trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Curatorial Commentary
Robert J. Flechtner, Juror #6 in the Ruby trial, is one of two jurors - as of September 2017 - known to be living. (The other being J. Waymon Rose.) An audio interview about Mr. Flechtner's experiences during the trial is part of the Museum's Dr. John Mark Dempsey Collection. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
In order to ensure its long-term care and preservation and to facilitate public access, the Dallas County District Attorney's Office placed their Jack Ruby Trial Collection (sometimes referred to as "the DA's Jack Ruby file") on long-term loan with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 2017. The Museum is working to make the entire collection accessible through this online collections database. To find out more about this collection or to access materials not yet included here, contact the Museum's Reading Room at readingroom@jfk.org. - Megan Bryant, Director of Collections & Interpretation
This item, along with materials from the DA's Ruby file (which is on loan to the Museum) and from the Museum's permanent collection, briefly appeared in a temporary display on the Museum's seventh floor in 2017. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections
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