{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"5537"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Dallas County District Clerk Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Transcript of The State of Texas vs. Jack Rubenstein alias Jack Ruby, Hearing on Sanity Motion. Phil Burleson and Joe Tonahill spoke for Jack Ruby; Jim Bowie, Bill Alexander, and Frank Watts represented the state.\r\n\r\nDefense attorneys Phil Burleson and Joe Tonahill filed a motion to remove from the defense team some lawyers who were sitting at the defense table at the behest of Ruby's family, not Ruby himself. The Court heard arguments against Sol Dann, Elmer Gertz and representatives of the firm Kunstler, Kunstler and Kinoy. The Court appointed Burleson and Tonahill to defend Ruby, although no motion was made, and no one had appointed the Court to act for Ruby in that manner. The sanity hearing was set for March 29, 1965.\r\n\r\nRetains its original blue card covers; typed 16 pages of sturdy onionskin paper. \r\n\r\nText on the cover reads:\r\n\r\n\"Number E 4010 J\r\n\r\nEx Parte Jack Ruby\r\n\r\nIn the Criminal District Court \r\nNo. 3\r\nDallas County, Texas\r\n\r\nHearing on Sanity \r\nMotion\r\n\r\nTaken 8 March, 1965\"\r\n\r\nThe last page is signed by court reporter L. B. Bailey, Jr."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"1994.002.0010.0009"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Transcript of The State of Texas vs. Jack Rubenstein alias Jack Ruby, Hearing on Sanity Motion. Appearing for the state: Jim Bowie, Bill Alexander, and Frank Watts. Appearing for the defendant, Jack Ruby: Phil Burleson and Joe Tonahill.\r\n\r\nDefense attorneys Phil Burleson and Joe Tonahill file a motion to remove from the defense team some lawyers who are sitting at the defense table at the behest of Ruby's family, not Ruby himself. The Court hears arguments against Sol Dann, Elmer Gertz, and representatives of the firm Kunstler, Kunstler and Kinoy. The Court appoints Burleson and Tonahill to defend Ruby, although no motion was made, and no one appointed the Court to act for Ruby in that manner. The sanity hearing was set for March 29, 1965.\r\n\r\nTranscript retains original blue card front and back covers, and is bound with a single metal spiral. Typed pages 1 - 16 of sturdy onionskin paper. Cover has a printed red box with the following text typed:\r\n\r\n\"Number E 4010 J\r\n\r\nEx Parte Jack Ruby\r\n\r\nIn the Criminal District Court \r\nNo. 3\r\nDallas County, Texas\r\n\r\nHearing on Sanity \r\nMotion\r\n\r\nTaken 8 March, 1965\"\r\n\r\nAt the bottom of the front cover is a black stamp of the word \"Copy\" set within a red-outlined box. There is also a red handwritten note at the top that says, \"Pet. # 16\". The last page is signed by court reporter L. B. Bailey, Jr.\r\n\r\n[NOTE - Numbering issue needs to be resolved. Two separate items; should have two separate numbers. (LR 07/02/15) UPDATE TO NOTE: Numbering issue resolved. Poorer condition copy of this transcript assigned unique number of 1994.002.0015. This transcript is the one that was digitized by UNT for the Portal to Texas History. (JM 02/04/2020)]\r\n\r\nTranscript in good condition. Onionskin pages are slightly yellowed. Front cover is discolored and faded, minimal stains throughout; corners have minimal fold creases. Metal spiral has begun to corrode. (JM 11/21/2019)"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paper, Metal"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/58823/full","displayOrder":"1","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"58823"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/58864/full","displayOrder":"3","mediaType":"Document","mediaId":"58864"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"T31 Transcript of the State of Texas vs. Jack Ruby, Hearing on Sanity Motion"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Documents"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/58823/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["1.1112522225"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Jack Ruby trial","Transcripts","Hearing","Court records","Mental health","Trials","Legal motion","Brown, Judge Joe B.","Alexander, William F.","Bowie, Jim","Watts, Frank","Bailey, L. B., Jr.","Ruby, Jack","Dann, Sol","Gertz, Elmer","Ruby Family","Tonahill, Joe H.","Burleson, Phil","Dallas County Criminal Courts Building","Criminal District Court No. 3","Dallas County District Attorney's Office","State of Texas","Dallas"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Transcript"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"03/08/1965"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["22.2250444501"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["The sanity hearing mentioned as being set in this transcript for March 1965 was not held until June 1966. This was due in large part to a variety of other legal motions filed by the defense and hearings that needed to be held first. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections","The Museum recorded oral histories with Ruby defense attorneys Joe Tonahill and Phil Burleson. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","Ruby attorney Elmer Gertz was a Chicago lawyer, law professor and civil rights activist. In 1968, he wrote Moment of Madness: The People vs. Jack Ruby, which focused on the legal maneuverings of the court and diverse array of attorneys that participated in the Ruby Trial.  This book is available in the Museum's Reading Room by appointment. - Krishna Shenoy, Librarian/Archivist"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"66168"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"11 5/16 × 8 3/4 × 7/16 in. (28.7 × 22.2 × 1.1 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["28.7338074676"]}}]}