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[Law License for Thomas Middlebrook Willis]

Description: Law license from the Law School of Cumberland University acknowledging that Thomas Middlebrook Willis (1859-1937) has fulfilled the requirements for the degree. T. M. Willis practiced law in Abilene, TX for many years.
Date: January 18, 1883
Creator: Law School of Cumberland University
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of Lady Bird Johnson Signing Books]

Description: Photograph of a middle-aged woman wearing a shiny, textured, long-sleeve dress, sitting at the head of a rectangular table covered by a floral tablecloth. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and tie stands behind the woman's right shoulder, smiling at the camera. The woman is signing a large book with a pen in her right hand, and a pair of eye-glasses in her left hand. Two more books, reading "Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary" on the front cover, sit further down the table (closer to the cam… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas Permian Basin

[Photograph of Lady Bird Johnson and a Woman Holding Documents]

Description: Photograph of two women, the short-haired one on the left wearing a medium-colored skirt-suit and small fuzzy pillbox hat, and the dark-haired one on the right wearing a dark, three-quarter length sleeved dress. The woman on the right is Lady Bird Johnson. The two are holding a large piece of paper with the Texas seal and signatures on it, the woman on the left holding the bottom of the paper with her right hand and the woman on the right holding the left side of the paper. The women are standi… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas Permian Basin

Cause Number 39,613. Brief for Appellee, The State of Texas

Description: Legal brief compiled by the district attorneys for the State of Texas in preparation for hearings in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals regarding the decision of Texas v. Jack Ruby. It includes excerpts of transcripts and exhibits from Ruby's previous trial, with legal analysis, and citations for previous cases and Texas laws.
Date: May 1966
Creator: Douglas, Leon; Wade, Henry; Alexander, William F.; Watts, Frank W.; Alsup, Al & Williamson, James M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Cause Number 39,613. Per Curiam Opinion

Description: Statement made by Judge Louis T. Holland documenting his decision regarding a habeas corpus proceeding. Holland's opinion indicates that a sanity hearing will be impaneled for Jack Ruby immediately, ahead of hearings related to Ruby's appeal (Cause No. 37,900).
Date: May 18, 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

[Cause Number 39,613]. Amicus Curiae Brief for Jack Ruby

Description: Legal brief compiled for Jack Ruby in preparation for hearings in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. It includes excerpts of transcripts and exhibits from Ruby's previous trial, with legal analysis, and citations for previous cases and Texas laws. Indexes to topical analysis, case authorities, statutes, and other authorities is at the start of the document.
Date: February 28, 1965
Creator: Belli, Melvin M., 1907-1996
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Cause Number 37,900. Amicus Curiae Brief for Appellant, Jack Ruby

Description: Photocopy of a legal brief compiled for Jack Ruby and filed by his defense attoneys in preparation for hearings in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. It is split into two volumes: (1) excerpts of transcripts and exhibits from Ruby's previous trial, with legal analysis, citations for previous cases and Texas laws, and (2) exhibits A-D providing other documentation. An index to topical arguments and other information for the first volume is at the start of the document.
Date: June 15, 1966
Creator: Tonahill, Joe H. & Colvin, Emmett, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

[Letter from M. M. Belli to Judge Brown, November 27, 1964]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Melvin Belli (former attorney for Jack Ruby) to judge Joe Brown (who presided over Ruby's murder trial) warning the judge that Ruby needs psychiatric attention and asking Brown to consider using the court's authority to require an examination since Ruby's current defense attorneys will not do so. Belli also mentions that he has been given permission to file an amicus curiae brief for Ruby's appeal.
Date: November 27, 1964
Creator: Belli, Melvin M., 1907-1996
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
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