/internal/media/dispatcher/75004/fullDr. William R. Beavers Oral History05/08/2013Duration: 48 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2013.001.00580Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. William R. Beavers. A psychiatrist at Woodlawn Hospital in Dallas, Beavers was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the Kennedy assassination took place. Later, following the 1964 Jack Ruby trial, Beavers was hired by the Ruby family to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of Ruby. Beavers spent eleven hours with Ruby and was present for his polygraph test.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 8, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-eight minutes long.Oral Histories649120E-100E-1038368Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. William R. Beavers. A psychiatrist at Woodlawn Hospital in Dallas, Beavers was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the Kennedy assassination took place. Later, following the 1964 Jack Ruby trial, Beavers was hired by the Ruby family to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of Ruby. Beavers spent eleven hours with Ruby and was present for his polygraph test.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 8, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-eight minutes long.Oral historiesPsychological studiesPsychiatryPolygraphAssassinationTrialsJack Ruby trialBeavers, Dr. William R.Ruby, JackRuby FamilyWoodlawn HospitalParkland HospitalDallas County Criminal Courts BuildingDallasParkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)Dr. William R. Beavers passed away on October 24, 2019. The Museum's Dr. William R. Beavers Collection (2013.052), donated at the time of this oral history, includes nearly fifty items related to the psychiatric treatment of Jack Ruby in 1963-64. The collection includes reports, correspondence, clippings and other materials. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorShortly before the Jack Ruby trial, Dr. Beavers testified at the change-of-venue hearing in February 1964, which was an unsuccessful effort by Ruby's defense attorneys to move the high-profile trial outside of Dallas. Dr. Beavers' testimony can be read here in the change-of-venue transcript, volume 3: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/66756. His testimony runs ten pages total (page 559-569). - Stephen Fagin, Curator