Jack Ruby
The Museum’s collection of materials relating to Jack Ruby include original television news footage of Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas police department on November 24, 1963; footage of Ruby in the crowded halls of the Dallas Police Department the day and night after the assassination; images of performers onstage at Ruby’s nightclub The Carousel Club and oral histories from people who knew and worked with Ruby; footage and photographs of Ruby’s 1964 trial; diaries, scrapbooks and oral histories from jurors who served during Ruby’s trial; artifacts belonging to the judge from Ruby’s trial; courtroom sketches from the Ruby trial; and artifacts, images and oral histories relating to Ruby’s incarceration in Dallas County jails and his time at Parkland Hospital before he died in 1967.