{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"73963"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Abel Rodriguez. Rodriguez observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. As a teenager in the 1950s, he did odd jobs for Jack Ruby at the Ervay Theater and Silver Spur Club. He recalled seeing Ruby once pull a gun on someone holding a knife. Having experienced prejudice growing up in Dallas, Rodriguez later became a diversity activist.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 24, 2023 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and nine minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2023.001.0050"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Abel Rodriguez. Rodriguez observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. As a teenager in the 1950s, he did odd jobs for Jack Ruby at the Ervay Theater and Silver Spur Club. He recalled seeing Ruby pull a gun on someone holding a knife. Having experienced prejudice growing up in Dallas, Rodriguez later became a diversity activist.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 24, 2023 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is sixty-nine minutes long."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.m2ts file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/77073/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"77073"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/77729/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"77729"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Abel Rodriguez Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/77729/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Night clubs","Theater","Motorcade","Racism","Democracy","Civil rights","Race relations","1960s","Lemmon Avenue","Ruby, Jack","Silver Spur","Dallas","Motorcade Spectators (OHC)","Jack Ruby (OHC)","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"07/24/2023"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Jack Ruby moved to Dallas in December 1947 to help his sister, Eva Grant, who owned and operated a nightclub called the Singapore Supper Club at 1717 South Ervay Street, which she had opened in 1945. By early 1949, when Grant decided to return to the west coast, Jack assumed ownership and management of the club. In an effort to improve business, Ruby converted the venue into a country and western dance hall and changed the name to the Silver Spur Club. Business did not improve, and Ruby briefly transferred the club to friends Martin Gimpel and Willie Epstein in 1952 before quickly regaining ownership. For a brief time in 1953, while running the Silver Spur, Ruby also managed the Ervay Theater, a movie theater at 1709 South Ervay Street. Ruby finally sold the Silver Spur to Roscoe \"Rocky\" Robinson in 1955. The Silver Spur subsequently closed when Robinson could not obtain a city license to operate it. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"72956"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 69 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}