Candy Barr, America's First Porn Princess

The Jack Ruby Connection

Jack Ruby

"I'm through being a stripper," she said. "Prison gave me the opportunity to realize I wasn't bad. I don't think there is any way to describe what I was when I walked into prison. But I walked out a human being."

Candy said she wanted to get home to Edna, forget her silly stage name and go back to being Juanita, a simple Texas housewife.

But she could not escape the spotlight.

Jack Ruby, her old Commerce Street nightclub pal, visited Barr after her release and gave her a getting-out gift of two dachshund puppies.

The dogs were about six months old when Ruby's name popped up on every newspaper front page in America.

Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald, an alienated man obsessed with Russia and Fidel Castro, shot President Kennedy to death in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Two days later, Ruby shot and killed Oswald.

Just 12 hours after that second shooting, the FBI paid a visit to Candy Barr to see what she knew about the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of his killer.

She said she knew nothing, but to this day some view Candy as a cog in the arcane machinery of the Kennedy conspiracy.

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1. The Big D
2. Down on the Farm
3. The Citizen Kane of Stag Films
4. Craving Candy
5. Dallas after Dark
6. Front Page Sensation
7. Teaching Sensuality
8. Mickey Cohen's Squeeze
9. Reefer Madness
10. Unlawful Arrest; Unfair Sentence
11. A New Leaf
12. The Jack Ruby Connection
13. A Gentle Mind Confused
14. Back in Business
15. Her Legacy
16. Resources