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John Groth Renderings
The Trial of Jack Ruby
Overview of the Collection |
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| Accession No.: | MA 84-5 |
| Repository: | Texas/Dallas History & Archives, Dallas Public
Library 1515 Young St Dallas, TX 75201 |
| Creator: | John Groth |
| Title: | John Groth Renderings |
| Dates: | 1964 |
| Quantity: | 110 drawings cubic feet |
| Abstract: | |
| Language: | The records are in English. |
Biographical Note
Journalist and artist, John Groth, had an opportunity to witness one of the twentieth century's most infamous events, the trial of Jack Ruby. Since Jack Ruby deprived the country of a trial for Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot President John F. Kennedy, his trial, and the Warren Commission were the only ones. A great deal of speculation on the Kennedy assassination and the role of Jack Ruby make a continuous mystery. John Groth was one of the journalists allowed in the courtroom. Television cameras were not admitted. His sketches depict the people and the mood of this event.
Beginning with his first job as an artist in 1934 for Esquire magazine, Groth's art covers much of American history. As a journalist he covered Word War II, Korea and Vietnam. His art has appeared in Fortune, Holiday, New Yorker, and Vogue, as well as many other magazines and books.
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Scope and Contents
130 drawings and 1 box of related items. Descriptions for individual drawings taken from the artist's notes and captions.
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Restrictions
Restrictions on Use
Drawings may NOT be copied
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Related Material
The Dallas Public Library has a substantial collection of books, magazines, and other items pertaining to the assassination of President Kennedy. Check the catalog and ask the librarians for assistance.
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Index Terms
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Persons:
Groth, John
Ruby, Jack
Places:
Dallas
Subjects:
Courtroom art
Courtroom artists
Trials(assassination)
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Location of Originals
Drawers located in Map Case 5, South Limited Access
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Detailed Description of the Collection
| Drawer | |||||||||||
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| 12 | 20 drawings | ||||||||||
| 84.5/1: Dr. Gibbs - witness the Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/2: Jury - Ruby trial -- Dallas | |||||||||||
| 84.5/3: Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/4: Wade, Bowie, Watts, Belli, Ruby -- The Jack Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/5: Little Lynn - witness -- Ruby Trial, Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/6: The Prosecution -- Jack Ruby Trial, Dallas, March 1964 -- Alexander - Wade | |||||||||||
| 84.5/7: The Sentencing -- March 14, 1964 -- Ruby Trial -- Belli, Ruby, Judge Brown | |||||||||||
| 84.5/8: Jack Ruby -- The Last Day -- Ruby Trial, Dallas March 14, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/9: Doctor Gibbs -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/10: Sgt. Dean Testifying -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/11: Little Lynn - witness -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/12: Juror -- The Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/13: [Max] Causey - Jury Foreman -- The Jack Ruby Trial March 1976 [sic] | |||||||||||
| 84.5/14: Tonahill -- Belli -- Ruby Trial, Dallas | |||||||||||
| 84.5/15: Witness Sgt. Dean at Jack Ruby Trial March 7, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/16: Sgt. Dean - witness -- The Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/17: Alexander -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/18: Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/19: Alexander - Tonahill - Belli -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 6, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/20: Ruby Trial Jury -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 13 | 20 Drawings | ||||||||||
| 84.5/21: at Jack Ruby Trial March 3, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/22: Dr. Gibbs Testifying -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/23: Courtroom - The Ruby Trial -- Ruby - Bowie - Alexander - Wade | |||||||||||
| 84.5/24: Witness, The Ruby Trial -- Dallas, March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/26: Court Room -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 3, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/27: Belli & Ruby -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas Early March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/28: Dr. [Manfred] Guttmacher Testifys [sic] -- The Ruby Trial, Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/29: Scene at the Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/30: at the Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 13, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/31: Courtroom -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/32: Courtroom -- The Jack Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/33: Judge Brown -- Jack Ruby an Tonahill - Belli -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 5, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/34: Wade - Bowie - Watts - Belli - Tonahill - Judge Brown -- at the Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/35: Belli in action -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 6, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/36: Melvin Belli -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/37: Dr. Towler, witness -- Ruby Trial, Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/38: Court action -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas | |||||||||||
| 84.5/39: Witness - Jurors -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/40: Ruby - Wade -- Jack Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 14 | 18 Drawings | ||||||||||
| 84.5/41: Witness -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 7, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/42: Witness and Judge Brown -- The Ruby Trial, Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/43: Dr. Gibbs, Psychiatrist, at Jack Ruby Trial 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/44: Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/45: Belli - Wade - Tonahill at the Jack Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/46: Mrs. McCallum, Juror -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/47: Courtroom -- The Ruby Trial March 14, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/48: Courtroom Detail -- The Ruby Trial March 14, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/49: Ruby Trial Interlude -- Dallas | |||||||||||
| 84.5/50: Trial Scene -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 10, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/51: Courtroom -- The Jack Ruby Trial; Verso: Judge Brown -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/52: Ruby Trial Jury -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/53: Dr. Manfred Guttmacher testifying -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/54: Burleson - Ruby - Tonahill -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/55: Barney Ross testifying -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/56: Belli and Witness -- The Ruby Trial, Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/57: Tonahill cross examines witness -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 7, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/58: Jurors at Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 15 | 18 Drawings | ||||||||||
| 84.5/59: Ruby - Tonahill - Belli -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 7, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/60: Doctor Guttmacher testifying -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/61: Melvin Belli -- Jack Ruby Trial March 5, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/62: Wade - Alexander - Tonahill - Ruby -- Ruby Trial, Dallas | |||||||||||
| 84.5/63: Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/64: Belli -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/65: Ruby Trial [jurors] March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/66: Jurors - Little Lynn testimony -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/67: Wade - Tonahill - Belli -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/68: Ruby - Tonahill - Belli -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/69: Juryman Dickerson -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 8,1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/70: Jack Ruby at his trial at Dallas March 9, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/71: Dr. Guttmacher - witness -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/72: Courtroom -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 14, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/73: Courtroom -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/74: Jack Ruby - Tonahill - Judge Brown -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 7, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/75: Courtroom recess -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/76: Judge Brown - Wade - Courtroom -- The Jack Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 11 | 27 Drawings | ||||||||||
| 84.5/77: Juror Dickerson - Jury Box -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 10, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/78: Jurors -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/79: Ruby friend Cessur testifies -- The Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/80: Dr. Schafer pictures -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/81: Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/82: Trial Jury at Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/83: Charts -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/84: Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/85: Witness -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/86: Police Capt. King testifying at the Jack Ruby Trial | |||||||||||
| 84.5/87: Sgt. Dean testifying -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/88: Jack Ruby - Belli - Wade -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/89: Wade - Alexander - Tonahill -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1976 [sic] | |||||||||||
| 84.5/90: Witness - Dr. Gibbs at the Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/91: Jack Ruby and Melvin Belli -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 12, 1974 [sic] | |||||||||||
| 84.5/92: Jurors -- The Jack Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/93: Wade at Jack Ruby Trial March 4, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/94: Belli - Ruby - Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 3/9/64 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/95: The Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/96: "Witness" -- Jack Ruby Trial 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/97: Jack Ruby - Melvin Belli -- The Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/98: Alexander - Wade -- The Ruby Trial March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/99: Press - T.V. -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/100: Ruby - Tonahill - Belli -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/101: Ruby and Belli -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 9, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/102: Alexander -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/103: Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 10 | 27 Drawings | ||||||||||
| 84.5/104: Press section -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/105: Alexander for the Prosecution -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/106: Judge Brown and witness -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/107: Tonahill -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/108: Judge Brown -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/109: Courtroom -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/110: Tonahill at the Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 5, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/111: Bowie -- The Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/112: Belli -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 5 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/113: Witness at Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 11, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/114: Telephone [? - party?] [press telephoning] -- Jack Ruby Trial 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/115: Tonahill for the defense -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/116: Press -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/117: [Scales of justice emblem] -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas '64 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/118: Tonahill - Ruby - Watts - Wade -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas | |||||||||||
| 84.5/119: Tonahill - Ruby -- Jack Ruby Trial March 8, 1976 [sic] | |||||||||||
| 84.5/120: Belli - Tonahill - Guards -- Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/121: Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/122: Tonahill & Senter - Dr. Towles, witness - Juryman Rose -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/123: Judge Brown - The Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/124: Wade - Bowie - Watts - The Prosecution except Alexander -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 9, 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/125: Witness - "Little Lynn" -- Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/126: Tonahill - or Belli - Ruby defense -- The Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/127: Jack Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1964 | |||||||||||
| 84.5/128: Jack Ruby & Barney Ross - Ross shakes Ruby's hand at Ruby Trial -- Dallas March 1974 [sic] | |||||||||||
| 84.5/129: Tonahill - Belli - Ruby -- The Jack Ruby Trial | |||||||||||
| 84.5/130: [board with newspaper clippings] | |||||||||||
| Slide Carousel of Renderings | |||||||||||
| on Range 19 | |||||||||||
| Interviews of John Groth by Erv Eatenson in 1977 (4 reels). | |||||||||||
| on Range 19 | |||||||||||