#Jack Ruby

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

TODAY’S FROZEN MOMENT - 60th Anniversary - November 24th, 1963 -

This indelible moment, when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald was captured for eternity by Dallas Times Herald photographer Robert Jackson. He would win the Pulitzer Prize for it. Obviously, this moment was also seen live on television by millions of people, but there is something so much more powerful about a photograph to seal a moment in time. As for history, Dallas Police officer James Leavelle, the man in the light-colored suit and Stetson, whose wrist was handcuffed to Oswald’s for this walk, had also survived Pearl Harbor twenty-two years prior while serving on the USS Whitney stationed there. Two days of infamy, two seminal American history moments, and this Texan survived them both, up close and personally. Leavelle’s suit and hat are now in a museum in Dallas. This moment was one which sparked the myriad conspiracy theories that surround the murder of JFK. Jack Ruby was a shady but wily character who seemed unlikely to have been willing to murder somebody in front of millions of eye witnesses simply because he was angry about the assassination. It sill amazes me that so many people have since gone to their graves with the complete truth about all of these events of those days in Dallas. An entire industry of speculative books and films have sprung from these moments, and mostly due to the mystery left unclear. American history is sadly rife with moments of injustice that become gotten away with. This is likely our most infamous instance. The deeper mysteries are the whys of allowing these injustices to stay unresolved and unpunished.

[Mary Elaine LeBey]

[generic-lab-assistant]

Listen I’m late but I’m still here

[countryhixes]

Bob Wills' Ranch House

(later called The Longhorn Ballroom)

"The Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas (USA) has been called, Texas' Most Historic Music Venue and since its inception has had a colorful set of proprietors. Originally built by O.L. Nelms, an eccentric Dallas millionaire, for his close friend, western swing bandleader Bob Wills, the venue opened in 1950 as Bob Wills' Ranch House. When Wills left In the early 50s Nelms leased the sprawling venue to notorious nightclub owner turned assassin Jack Ruby. Mr. Ruby eventually had a nervous breakdown and lost the lease, but he is credited with hosting some of the best black entertainers of the day including Count Basie, Ruth Brown, and Nat King Cole. The Nat King Cole show took place in 1954 in the racially segregated Jim Crow South, where an affluent black audience sat in front, in the premium seats, while the white patrons stood in the back to listen to the legend.

In 1957, the venue was divided into two separate performance areas by a single wall.  One area, named the “Guthrey Club” featured Rhythm and Blues artists such as Little Richard, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, and Roy Orbison, while the bigger ballroom focused on Country Music.

In 1958, O.L. Nelms sold the business and in 1967 sold the property to his close friend and business partner Dewey Groom who renamed the venue The Longhorn Ballroom.  Groom, who was also a recording artist, and record label owner, successfully ran the ballroom for more than 25 years, adding the iconic Longhorn Ballroom marquee..."

[abs0luteb4stard]

[oldshowbiz]

Obscure comedy team Carme and Paul showed up in the Warren Report.

[american-tabloid]

[hitchell-mope]

Decent movie. I’m still 90% sure it’s mostly codswallop. But still. Decent movie

[saturneers]

JFK: The Secret History, part 1 #JFK #CIA #Israel #conspiracy #Cuba #Bay...

[w3mb13r]

close enough, welcome back ninejackrose

[schnorianfleider]

Today is the 60th anniversary of C. S. Lewis and JFK’s deaths. It was the day before Doctor Who first episode “An Unearthly Child” aired.

I still think there was more than one gunman. The other was in the grassy knoll. Made a whole essay on it. Got an 89.

My mom’s aunt was glued to the TV screen when she saw Lee Harvey Oswald get shot.

[claraoswalds]

The Parting of the Ways // Rogue

[oldshowbiz]

An interview with the strippers at Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club

[atarial]

all of my doctor who portraits so far! up to 27 of them now woah

still plenty more i want to do, please don't say where is so and so, they are most likely on the to do list, i just have 10 projects going at once so i stop and start things a lot

[kaetor]

the doctor dances!

[thenewdemocratus]

Roger Sharp Archive: ABC News Late Wrapup of The Ruby-Oswald Shooting

. Source:The New Democrat  ABC News was still not a major news operation yet. CBS News was the biggest TV news division at this point at least in America. Thanks to the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. And NBC News with Meet The press and the Huntley Brinkley Report was its closest competitor at this point. But ABC News did the best job that they could even being buried in the ratings and…