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<object xmlns:xs="//www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><field label="PrimaryMedia" name="primaryMedia"><value>/internal/media/dispatcher/27069/full</value></field><field label="Title" name="title"><value>"This Month in Dallas" featuring ads for Jack Ruby's Carousel Club</value></field><field label="Date" name="displayDate"><value>November 1963</value></field><field label="Dimensions" name="dimensions"><value>9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm)</value></field><field label="Medium" name="medium"><value>Paper</value></field><field label="Credit Line" name="creditline"><value>Ike Pappas Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza</value></field><field label="Object number" name="invno"><value>1989.073.0004</value></field><field label="On View" name="onview"><value>0</value></field><field label="Description" name="description"><value>70 page magazine titled "This Month in Dallas", dated November 1963. Booklet cover is printed in orangish-brown and black and reads:
 
 "November 1963
 This Month in Dallas
 * Where to Go . . . .
 * What to Do . . . . 

 Dallas Civic Opera 1963 Season Nov. 8-30
 The Coronation of Poppea
 Carmen
 A Masked Ball
 Handel's Messiah
 State Fair Music Hall

 With a Cast of Brilliant Stars * Patrice Munsel * Ramon Vinay
 Caterina Mancin * Regina Resnik * Nicola Filacuridi * Antonietta
 Stella * Giuseppe Di Stefano * Mario Sereni * Jon Vickers"

A large photograph across the front cover shows a scene from the opera 'Carmen'

An advertisement from The Carousel Club appears on page 63 of the booklet. It shows dancers Cindy Ember and JADA, both scantily clad, and gives a list of other dancers and special nights at the club.

A special ad for Tammie True, one of the dancers at the Carousel Club, is on page 66. It shows Tammie, naked except for being wrapped in a shawl, standing in front of an electrical outlet. The description is an advertisment for the Carousel Club.

Ike Pappas, a reporter with the radio station WNEW-New York, flew to Dallas to cover the assassination story of President Kennedy, and spent the weekend of November 22, 1963 at Dallas police headquarters.  On Sunday, November 24, 1963, he was one of the closest bystanders to witness the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald.</value></field><field label="Classifications" name="classification"><value>Newspapers &amp; Magazines</value></field><field label="Id" name="id"><value>64753</value></field><field label="Width" name="width"><value>15.2400000000</value></field><field label="Height" name="height"><value>22.8600000000</value></field><field label="Source ID" name="sourceId"><value>3833</value></field><field label="Object" name="culture"><value>Magazine</value></field><field label="Description" name="labelText"><value>"This Month in Dallas", 70-page magazine, dated November 1963. This publication was produced monthly as a visitor's guide to Dallas.  This edition includes ads for Jack Ruby's Carousel Club.  Ruby was well known as a salesman and promoter.  He often gave out business cards and regularly ran ads for his clubs in local newspapers and magazines.  

The cover reads:
 
 "November 1963
 This Month in Dallas
 * Where to Go . . . .
 * What to Do . . . . 

 Dallas Civic Opera 1963 Season Nov. 8-30
 The Coronation of Poppea
 Carmen
 A Masked Ball
 Handel's Messiah
 State Fair Music Hall

 With a Cast of Brilliant Stars * Patrice Munsel * Ramon Vinay
 Caterina Mancin * Regina Resnik * Nicola Filacuridi * Antonietta
 Stella * Giuseppe Di Stefano * Mario Sereni * Jon Vickers"

The front cover shows a scene from the opera 'Carmen.'

This image is not available online larger than a thumbnail to protect the copyright of its creator(s).</value></field><field label="Terms" name="thesconcepts"><value>Magazines</value><value>Night clubs</value><value>Advertisement</value><value>Ruby, Jack</value><value>Carousel Club</value><value>Dallas</value></field><field label="Media" name="media"><value displayOrder="1" mediaType="Image" mediaURL="https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27069/full" mediaId="27069"/><value displayOrder="2" mediaType="Image" mediaURL="https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3940/full" mediaId="3940"/><value displayOrder="3" mediaType="Image" mediaURL="https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3941/full" mediaId="3941"/></field><field label="Curatorial Commentary" name="textEntriesTextentries"><value>WNEW-New York radio reporter Ike Pappas picked up this entertainment guide to Dallas when he arrived in the city to cover the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Pappas later encountered Jack Ruby at Dallas City Hall and was one of the closest bystanders to the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. - Stephen Fagin, Curator</value></field></object>