{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"14933"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Judge Joe B. Brown, Jr. Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Tobacco pipe belonging to Judge Joe B. Brown. The pipe has a curved black plastic mouth piece and stem, and a carved wooden shank and bowl made from Algerian Briar. The judge was said to have smoked a pipe in the courtroom during the trial.\r\n\r\nThe mouthpiece has a narrow opening on the end that is badly stained and discolored from use. The shank and bowl have deeply carved irregular gouges throughout the surface of the polished wood; the carved indentations are rough and darker than the raised surfaces of the wood. \r\n\r\nOn the left side of the shank is the following text stamped into the wood: \"CHADWICK \\ CARVED\". Stamped into the wood on the right side of the shank is the following text: \"GENUINE ALGERIAN BRIAR\"."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2004.010.0168.0006"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Tobacco pipe belonging to Judge Joe B. Brown with a curved black plastic mouth piece and stem and a carved wooden shank and bowl made from Algerian Briar. \r\n\r\nThe mouthpiece has a narrow opening on the end that is badly stained and discolored from use. The shank and bowl have deeply carved irregular gouges throughout the surface of the polished wood; the carved indentations are rough and darker than the raised surfaces of the wood. \r\n\r\nOn the left side of the shank is the following text stamped into the wood: \"CHADWICK \\ CARVED\". Stamped into the wood on the right side of the shank is the following text: \"GENUINE ALGERIAN BRIAR\".\r\n\r\nThe mouthpiece is badly stained and has severe discoloration on the black plastic near the end. Large amounts of build-up are present inside the bowl of the pipe; scratches in surface of pipe primarily on lower portion of curved bowl. (JM 09/06/2017)"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Wood, Plastic"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/32125/full","displayOrder":"1","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"32125"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Tobacco pipe belonging to Judge Joe B. Brown"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Artifacts"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/32125/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["5.0000000000"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Pipes","Jack Ruby trial","Brown, Judge Joe B."]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Pipe"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"circa 1960"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["3.4000000000"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["This is one of several pipes that belonged to Judge Joe B. Brown, donated to the Museum by his son, Judge Joe B. Brown, Jr. Although no known photographs show Brown smoking a pipe at any time during the Ruby trial, there are anecdotal accounts that he may have smoked a pipe in the courtroom at least once. There are news photographs showing Judge Brown smoking a cigarette in a hallway outside the courtroom, smoking a cigar in the office of Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker, and with a pack of Salem brand cigarettes on his desk in his courthouse office. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","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"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"64286"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"5 7/8 × 1 5/16 × 1 15/16 in. (15 × 3.4 × 5 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["15.0000000000"]}}]}