{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"25000"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Chuck Fisher Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Courtroom pencil sketch on paper by Charles Fisher. The sketch shows defense attorney Joe Tonahill during the Jack Ruby trial in February or March of 1964. Ruby's defense attorneys, including Melvin Belli, are seated at the attorney's table, which is covered in papers and books. Joe Tonahill is standing in the foreground holding a pencil in one hand. A group of indistinct figures are visible in the background. The caption in the top right corner reads \"Tonahill/ Belli,\" and the caption in the bottom right corner reads \"Defense attorney/ Jack Ruby murder trial.\"  On the opposite side of the paper is an unfinished sketch of a man's head and shoulders. It is unlabeled, and the identity of the man is unknown.\r\n\r\nThe artist, Charles \"Chuck\" Fisher, was the art director at KRLD-TV in 1963. Fisher made the pencil sketches during the trial of Jack Ruby for KRLD-TV after the judge barred cameras from the courtroom."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2004.020.0013"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Courtroom pencil sketch on paper from Jack Ruby murder trial by Charles Fisher, with captions in bottom and top right corners: \"Defense attorney/ Jack Ruby murder trial\" (bottom) and \"Tonahill/ Beli\" (top).  No signature on drawing.  On the opposite side of this paper is an unfinished sketch of a man's head and shoulders.  It is unlabeled.\r\n\r\nSketch shows the defense side of the courtroom, with an attorney standing and gesturing with a pencil in his right hand.  He is wearing a suit and tie, and has glasses.  Another man sits to his left, his back towards the artist.  It is discernable that he wears glasses, too.  There are other figures and faces in the background, but not identified.  The first four figures are behind a desk/table with papers on top.  The perspective of the drawing is from the right profile of the initial subject.  Another unfinished sketch of a man's head and shoulders is on the back side of this drawing.  He is unidentified.  The left edge of the paper (from the captioned sketch) is torn, and still has the holed edge.\r\n\r\nCharles \"Chuck\" Fisher was the art director at KRLD-TV in 1963.  Fisher made the pencil sketches of the Jack Ruby Trial for KRLD-TV after the judge barred cameras from the courtroom."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paper"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/66715/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"66715"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/25060/full","displayOrder":"3","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"25060"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Courtroom sketch of defense attorney Joe Tonahill at Jack Ruby trial"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Art"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/66715/full"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Artist","Sketches","Trials","Attorney","Artwork","Jack Ruby trial","Belli, Melvin","Fisher, Charles","Tonahill, Joe H.","KRLD-TV","Dallas"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Courtroom sketch"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"February 1964 - March 1964"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["43.1800863602"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Colorful Jasper, Texas, attorney Joe Halbert Tonahill, Sr. (1913-2001) was co-founder of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Although well known in Jasper, Tonahill was lifted to national prominence by his longtime friend Melvin Belli when Belli hired the six-foot-four native Texan as his defense co-counsel. Tonahill recorded an oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum on August 9, 1996. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65005"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["35.5600711201"]}}]}