/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullJewel Brown Oral History04/13/2015Duration: 41 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2015.001.00590Recorded audio-only oral history interview with Jewel Brown. A singer from Houston, Texas, Brown performed at Jack Ruby’s Sovereign Club in 1960. She was touring with legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong at the time of the assassination.
Interview conducted on April 13, 2015 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 41 minutes long.Oral Histories6557744039Oral historyAudio oral history interview with Jewel Brown. A singer from Houston, Texas, Brown performed at Jack Ruby's Soverign Club in Dallas in 1960. She was touring with legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong at the time of the assassination.
Interview conducted by telephone on April 13, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-one minutes long. Oral historiesNight clubsMusicRuby, JackDallasCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)Jewel Brown passed away on June 25, 2024. - Riley Harris, Collections CatalogerAfter a nearly forty-year break from music starting in 1968, Brown returned to singing in the mid-2000s and is still performing as of summer 2022. She plans to release a new album of music to commemorate her 85th birthday in 2022. Most recently, in early June 2022, she was honored with a two-day celebration by the Community Artists' Collective and Community Music Center of Houston. In an article highlighting the event, the Houston Chronicle called her "the Beyoncé of her time." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator