Description: Antique Postcard 1916 TX Kress Criminal Courts and Jail Buildings Dallas Texas. See photos. Dallas County Criminal Courts building ca. 1915. This is now part of the Dallas County Records Complex. Designed by Dallas architect H.A. Overbeck. Still standing, it faces the Old Red Courthouse (Main St. is in the foreground of the picture above, Houston St. is at the left) — it was even built with a tunnel connecting the two buildings. I’ve always liked this building, but for some reason it’s weird to think of it as a jailhouse. It’s hosted celebrity outlaws like Clyde Barrow and Raymond Hamilton, Benny Binion, and Billie Sol Estes, but its main claim to fame is its connection to the Kennedy assassination: not only was Jack Ruby tried in one of the downstairs courtrooms for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (whom he shot while Oswald was in the process of being transferred to the county jail), but, as a reader notes in the comments, Ruby also spent considerable time there upstairs, as a prisoner, incarcerated in a cell overlooking Dealey Plaza. (Credit to Paula Bosse - Flashback: Dallas) Feel free to browse our store for more CDs, Books, DVDS and Collectible Items, and follow us at: www.ebay.com/str/panthercitypickers Thanks for stopping by =)
Price: 5.37 USD
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
End Time: 2024-12-02T02:15:24.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Size: Standard (5.5 x 3.5 in)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Continent: North America
Material: Paper
Theme: Architecture, Cities & Towns, Courthouse
Region: Texas
Country: USA
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Features: Divided Back
Year Manufactured: 1916
Subject: Building
Number of Items in Set: 1
Postage Condition: Posted
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
City: Dallas
Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1919
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Era: World War I (1914-1918)
Brand/Publisher: S. H. Kress & Co.
