"No. E. 4010-J in the Criminal District Court No. 3, of Dallas County, Texas. January Term, A. D. 1964."
Stamp at bottom of cover: "Henry Wade, District Attorney, Records Building, Dallas 2, Texas."
Additional description and context: Transcript of The State of Texas vs. Jack Rubenstein alias Jack Ruby, Hearing on Defendant's Motion for a Change of Venue, Volume Three.
Melvin Belli, Joe Tonahill, Phil Burleson and others spoke for Ruby; Henry Wade, Dallas County District Attorney, was the prosecutor, assisted by Jim Bowie and Bill Alexander. The presiding judge was Judge Joe B. Brown.
Appearing as witnesses in Volume 3: Sam R. Bloom, John McKee, Barefoot Sanders, W. M. Beavers, Jack Etheridge, Harold Berman, Jack Beers, R. S. Walker, Stanley Kaufman, Robert O'Donnell, Randolph Scott, Laurel Bates, T. K. Irwin, Walter Schumach, James Buchanan II, A. C. Lewis, Howard B. Law, Searcy Ferguson and Carl Freund.
The defense examined multiple witnesses who were local lawyers, residents or representatives of Dallas newspapers, television and radio stations, in an effort to prove how difficult it would be to have a fair trial for Ruby in Dallas. Some witnesses testified to the bad feeling in Dallas and how the city's reputation had suffered since the Oswald shooting. The state cross-examined the same witnesses, attempting to prove that it would be just as difficult to have the trial anywhere, since so much of the Ruby story was nationally publicized. At the end, the judge stated that he would not rule on change of venue until after the jurors have been examined.
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza also publishes this record online: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/66756