/internal/media/dispatcher/73939/fullRuth Collins Sharp Altshuler Oral History09/19/2017Duration: 120 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2017.001.00810Videotaped oral history interview with Ruth Collins Sharp Altshuler. A nationally recognized philanthropist and longtime Dallas civic leader, Altshuler attended the Trade Mart luncheon. She served on the grand jury that indicted Jack Ruby the following Monday and later attended the Ruby trial. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings appointed Altshuler as chair of the President John F. Kennedy Commemorative Foundation, to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination in 2013.
Interview conducted at Mrs. Altshuler's home in Dallas on September 19, 2017. Recorded in partnership with the Dallas Historical Society. Internviewers participating: Staphen Fagin (TSFM), C. Dealey Campbell (DHS), and Dallas preservationist and author Virginia McAlester. The interview is 2 hours long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories654050E-100E-1054073Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Ruth Collins Sharp Altshuler. A nationally recognized philanthropist and longtime Dallas civic leader, Altshuler attended the Trade Mart luncheon on November 22, 1963. She also served on the Dallas County Grand Jury that indicted Jack Ruby the following Monday and later attended the Jack Ruby trial in 1964. In 2013, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings appointed Altshuler as chair of the President John F. Kennedy Commemorative Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas.
Interview conducted at Mrs. Altshuler's home in Dallas on September 19, 2017 by Stephen Fagin, C. Dealey Campbell and Virginia McAlester. The interview is two hours long.Oral historiesCivic leadersTrade Mart luncheonGrand juryJack Ruby trialAnniversaryAltshuler, RuthRuby, JackDallasDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)Community Leaders (OHC)History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)Virginia Savage McAlester passed away on April 9, 2020 at the age of 76. A trailblazing activist in historic preservation, she was co-author of five books and a founding member of Preservation Dallas. - Stephen Fagin, Curator Ruth Altshuler passed away on December 8, 2017, less than three months after this joint Sixth Floor Museum/Dallas Historical Society interview was recorded. One of the interviewers, Dallas historian Virginia McAlester, recorded her own oral history in 2018 and sadly passed away in 2020. Prior to this lengthy 2017 oral history, Mrs. Altshuler recorded an interview with the Museum in 2001. - Stephen Fagin, Curator