Jack Ruby Signed Check, w/ Certificate

Jack Ruby Signed Check, w/ Certificate
c. 1950
Artist/Designer/Manufacturer: Jack Ruby signed check (Mercantile National Bank at Dallas TX), authentication provided by R & R Enterprises Autograph Auction.

Materials: Paper, photo print

Marking(s): Check is signed at bottom right "Jack L Ruby", check #1731 dated 10/13/1950 with punched check protector holes. Certificate has printed R & R Auctions owner signature and is marked #3115528 Catalog 301, item 271. Framing label on verso "Frames By You".

Cataloguer's Note: The top portion of the frame features the iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph captured by Bob Jackson on November 24, 1963. It documents the exact second Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters, just two days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Detective Jim Leavelle, wearing the light-colored suit and stetson hat, is shown reacting as he escorts Oswald. Matted directly below the photograph is an original, authentic business check from Jack Ruby's early days in Dallas. The check is drawn from the Silver Spur account, a Dallas nightclub located at 1717 South Ervay Street that Ruby moved to Dallas to help co-manage and run starting in 1947.