Door attributed to Jack Ruby's apartment (#207) at the Marsala Place Apartments, 223 South Ewing Street, Dallas, Texas, where he was living at the time he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Painted blue on the front, with worn brown paint on the back, the door measures approximately 36″ by 78″ and features a "207" placard. Also applied to the front of the door is an identification placard, "Original Door to Jack Ruby's Apartment, Marsala Place Apartments, 223 S. Ewing," along with images of its interior and the apartment manager. In overall very good condition.
Originates from the collection of Kennedy assassination researcher Larry Howard, president of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas, where this was once exhibited. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from his daughter, in part: "My Dad, Larry Howard, was a Kennedy Assassination researcher in Dallas, Texas and he eventually acquired enough materials from his relationships with various people involved in some way to the assassination of President Kennedy that he was able to open the John F. Kennedy Assassination Information Center inside the West End Marketplace in downtown Dallas. It was established in 1988 and was in business until my Dad’s death in 1994. Upon its closing all of the materials that were a part of the museum exhibit were boxed and stored at my Mother’s home. My Dad was well known in the circle of researchers of the time and was hired by Oliver Stone during the making of JFK as a consultant."
Ruby's residency in the Marsala Place Apartments was the subject of some exhibits documented by the Warren Commission, as various neighbors and associates of Ruby's were interviewed in the aftermath of his slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby moved into apartment #207 in the latter part of November 1962, and was living there at the time he shot Oswald on November 24, 1963. Dallas police served a search warrant on the apartment that night, recovering possible evidence that included about $1,000 in cash, postal receipts, telephone bills, his personal address/telephone number book, and a variety of personal effects.
