Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
Artist
Robert H. Jackson
(American, born 1934)
DateNovember 24, 1963
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionssight: 16.2 x 24.3 cm (6 3/8 x 9 9/16 in.)
frame: 44.2 x 54.3 cm (17 3/8 x 21 3/8 in.)
frame: 44.2 x 54.3 cm (17 3/8 x 21 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2011.146
Label TextTwo days after President Kennedy’s assassination, the accused murderer Lee Harvey Oswald, was being transferred from one Dallas jail to another. A crowd was gathered in the jail’s basement garage when Oswald was led toward a waiting car. Suddenly a man stepped from the crowd and shot him point blank, on live television. It was Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner and Kennedy admirer. Sentenced to die after a murder conviction, he was granted an appeal for procedural errors. Ruby died in prison three years later, before a new trial could be held.On View
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