/internal/media/dispatcher/75002/fullDr. Thurman Ray Oral History03/11/2009Duration: 30 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2009.001.00150Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. Thurman Ray. A Dallas optometrist, Ray treated Jack Ruby as a patient from the 1950s through Ruby's death in 1967. During Jack Ruby's incarceration at the Dallas County Jail, he repeatedly broke or damaged his eyeglasses. Ray recalled creating new pairs that were provided to Ruby's sister, Eva Grant.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 11, 2009 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty minutes long.Oral Histories6453429828Oral historyVideotaped oral history interview with Dr. Thurman Ray. A Dallas optometrist, Ray treated Jack Ruby as a patient from the 1950s through Ruby's death in 1967. During Jack Ruby's incarceration at the Dallas County Jail, he repeatedly broke or damaged his eyeglasses. Ray recalled creating new pairs that were provided to Ruby's sister, Eva Grant.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 11, 2009 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty minutes long.TrialsJack Ruby trialOral historiesRay, ThurmanRuby, JackGrant, EvaDallas County Criminal Courts BuildingDallas County JailJack Ruby (OHC)Dr. Thurman Ray passed away on April 9, 2020. The Museum's Al Maddox Collection includes what is believed to be Jack Ruby's last pair of eyeglasses (2004.008.0001). According to Maddox, then a Dallas County deputy sheriff, Ruby used a pair of London Fog eyeglasses in his room at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Maddox retained those glasses after Ruby's passing on January 3, 1967, and later donated them to The Sixth Floor Museum in 2006. - Stephen Fagin, Curator