{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"22488"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Max Causey Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Letter from Dallas County Criminal District Attorney Henry Wade to Max E. Causey dated March 19, 1964, thanking Mr. Causey for his service as a juror in the Jack Ruby trial. Causey was the foreman on that jury.\r\n\r\nTyped on Mr. Wade's official letterhead for \"Dallas County Texas\", the full text is as follows:    \r\n\r\n\"Henry Wade\r\nDistrict Attorney\r\nRecords Building\r\nDallas, Texas 75202\r\n\r\nMarch 19, 1964\r\n\r\nMr. Max E. Causey\r\n[address]\r\n\r\nDear Mr. Causey:\r\n\r\nKindly accept this letter as my personal thanks for your jury\r\nservice in the Jack Ruby case. It is realized that your jury\r\nservice created many hardships upon yourself and family but it\r\nshould be stated that regardless of such matters you met a very\r\ngreat responsibility with courage and intelligence. For this\r\nI am deeply thankful.\r\n\r\nYour verdict is most outstanding because it will deter others\r\nfrom so wantonly taking human life without due process of law.\r\nThe framers of our Constitution provided for trials by jury\r\nbecause of their unquestioned faith that the American citizen \r\nwould follow the law and require its enforcement. Your verdict\r\nhas again proven the correctness of the jury system and has \r\ngiven renewed faith in the American citizen as a person who \r\nwill meet the responsibilities of such citizenship.\r\n\r\nAgain let me thank you for your verdict and service as a juror.\r\nFor such I shall ever be grateful.\r\n\r\nSincerely yours,\r\n\r\nHENRY WADE\r\n[Mr. Wade signed his name in blue ink and underlined it]\r\nCriminal District Attorney\r\nDallas County, Texas\r\n\r\nHW:sc\""},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2002.051.0046"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Letter from Dallas County Criminal District Attorney Henry Wade to Max E. Causey dated March 19, 1964 thanking Mr. Causey for his service on the jury in the Jack Ruby trial and praising the guilty verdict.\r\n\r\nThe letter was typed on Mr. Wade's District Attorney letterhead that has the seal for \"Dallas County Texas\" at the top center of the page in black ink with the following text printed in black ink below:\r\n\"Henry Wade\r\nDistrict Attorney\r\nRecords Building\r\nDallas, Texas 75202\"; the date is typed in black ink below the centered letterhead \"March 19, 1964\".\r\n\r\nThe text of the letter is as follows:\r\n\"Mr. Max E. Causey\r\n710 Peachtree Lane\r\nGarland, Texas\r\n\r\nDear Mr. Causey:\r\n\r\nKindly accept this letter as my personal thanks for your jury\r\nservice in the Jack Ruby case. It is realized that your jury\r\nservice created many hardships upon yourself and family but it\r\nshould be stated that regardless of such matters you met a very\r\ngreat responsibility with courage and intelligence. For this\r\nI am deeply thankful.\r\n\r\nYour verdict is most outstanding because it will deter others\r\nfrom so wantonly taking human life without due process of law.\r\nThe framers of our Constitution provided for trials by jury\r\nbecause of their unquestioned faith that the American citizen \r\nwould follow the law and require its enforcement. Your verdict\r\nhas again proven the correctness of the jury system and has \r\ngiven renewed faith in the American citizen as a person who \r\nwill meet the responsibilities of such citizenship.\r\n\r\nAgain let me thank you for your verdict and service as a juror.\r\nFor such I shall ever be grateful.\r\n\r\nSincerely yours,\r\n\r\n[Mr. Wade signed his name in blue ink and underlined it]\r\nHENRY WADE\r\nCriminal District Attorney\r\nDallas County, Texas\r\n\r\nHW:sc\".\r\n\r\nThere are some tiny tears on the lower right side (R.B. 2/20/14).\r\nThe paper has darkened, except where there are lighter strips along the left side and toward the bottom (KW 2/28/14).\r\nPaper has severely yellowed; discoloration evident on reverse. Fold lines horizontally across page about one-third down from top and up from bottom of paper; vertical fold line along left edge of paper and horizontal fold line along lower edge of paper. Lower right edge of page has small tears and some paper loss. (JM 09/06/2017)"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paper"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/33176/full","displayOrder":"1","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"33176"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Letter addressed to Max Causey from Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Documents"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/33176/full"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Jury","Verdict","Jack Ruby trial","Letters","Letterhead","Wade, Henry M.","Causey, Max","Dallas County District Attorney's Office","Dallas","Garland"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Letter"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"03/19/1964"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["21.5900000000"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["As the first juror selected for the Jack Ruby trial, thirty-five-year-old Max E. Causey spent the longest time sequestered on an upper floor of the Dallas County Criminal Courts Building. Causey was unable to visit his family, watch television or read newspapers, or have outside communication of any kind from February 20 to March 14, 1964. - 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","During the course of the trial, Max Causey kept a longhand diary in a reporter's notebook documenting the trial and jury deliberations. After the trial, he wrote a memoir from the diary. In 2000, both the memoir and the diary were published as a book, The Jack Ruby Trial Revisited: The Diary of Jury Foreman Max Causey. - Krishna Shenoy, Librarian/Archivist","To learn more about Max Causey's experiences as foreman of the Jack Ruby trial jury, please see record 2002.051.0094, which is for the journal of handwritten notes he kept during the trial. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"64305"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["27.9400000000"]}}]}