The choice to use Oswald was an easy one. Oswald’s undoing was his continuous bragging about what a good shot he was. About his Marine training he would end it by saying “I’m a sharpshooter” Moreover he was not a man who studied current events. Ruby had met Oswald several years earlier in Cuba during one of  his gun running trips to the Island. Selling guns to Batista was illegal long before Castro ran him out of the cuntry. The United States made it doubly illeagle after Castro and his fatigues  took control. To Marcello, the more illegal the act, the greater the profit.

Story continued on Page 338 of Candy Barr, The Book.

Word about Dallas’ “wide open zone” reached the ears of one Lester Ben “Benny” Binion, a thirty-two year old gambler with a notable past history. Benny would soon become the King in the Zone.

Born in Grayson County, Texas in 1904, Binion was the son of a horse trader and he spent his sickly youth traveling with his father. His schoolhouse was the campgrounds where horse traders gathered to awat market days. The subjects he studied were how to judge the age of a horse by looking at his teeth and gambling with cards and dice. He earned an “A Plus” in both courses. He nevere darkened the door of a church or a real schoolhouse.

Story continued on Page 77 of Candy Barr, The Book.

Two of the Jews sent down from the north were Jack and Eva Rubenstein, brother and sister. Jack had a tough, calculating mind, callous by an early childhood that taught distrust and survival at any cost.

Jacob Leon Rubenstein, born 1912, was reared by a “low” Jewish family on Chicago’s South Side. It was a tough area of poor families where it was not safe for “good people” to go. His mother was illiterate and his father an abusive drunk.

American Jews are divided into two classes. A “low” Jewish family’s ancestors came from the Balkan area of Europe, where Arab blood had mixed in. The “high” Jew had more Jewish blood mixed with western blood. The “highs” look down upon the “lows”, much the same as a Negro with white blood considered himself better than a full blooded Negro.

Story continued on Page 81 of Candy Barr, The Book.

In April of 1956, two twenty-one-year-old boys, Thomas James and Fred Grimes, drove from Brownwood, Texas to Dallas to visit Betty James, Thomas’ sister and a student at Southern Methodist University. While visiting the campus a group of students decided on a trip to the Colony Club. Car loaded with students including Thomas and Fred caravanned downtown.

A big 2-sided sign on the Colony Club’s sidewalk pictured a gorgeous blond in a white cowboy hat, her 36-23-34 torso covered with a blue cowboy top and shorts, wearing empty gun holsters. The blond had her 2 Colt 45s pointed toward the camera. Beneath the sign the beautiful lady was identified as Candy Barr.

At the ticket office, a small sign warned that one must be at least 21 to enter the establishment. Each student purchased a five dollar ticket and entered the club. It was a slow night, half full or half empty, depending on your point of view. In the stage a young girl was traipsing around on the stage, swaying to the music of the small orchestra and slipping of pieces of her clothing. When her dance ended, the lights came up for intermission. Thomas and Fred ordered fifty cent soft drinks and waited for Candy Barr to appear. Suddenly all hell broke loose. A passel of Dallas cops poured in ans began arresting the college boys, including Thomas and Fred.

Story continued on Page 178 of Candy Barr, The Book.

Travis left the Marines, worked down south doing construction work, then accepted the offer to manage the night clube across the street from Gomez Restaurant. The club has gone by many names and the original building was leveled and rebuilt from the ground up. It was known in the old days as “Neal’s Place” and More recently as “Tequila Nights” but at the time it was known as “The Red Lantern”.

When Travis told Candy he was moving to Brownwood to manage the club, candy contacted Gloria Carver at her house on Lake Brownwood. Gloria, now alone, invited Candy, and Ray, and the dogs to come live with her. To Candy, the arrangement was similar to the small block house she grew up in, crowded with so many brothers, and sisters, and hound dogs.

Story continued on Page 408 of Candy Barr, The Book.

A beautiful Blond stripper, mobsters and a Mafia chieftain, an actress, a preacher, an FBI director, a Texas Governor, and Melvin Belli, are all characters in this spellbinding book.

Juanita Dale Slusher, Alias Candy Barr,Jack Ruby, Mickey Cohen, Bennie Binion, Joan Collins, Billy Graham, J. Edgar Hoover, Burt Lancaster, John Conley, Hugh Hefner- All names straight out of the history books. George A. Day has gathered names, places and facts in this book to describe the life of America’s first porn star and how a love affair in Dallas created a trap that landed her in Prison. A Pleasure to read with exciting revelations.

Adrian Nn Turnbow, PHD
Professor of Political Science, U of C, Berkeley

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Who was Jack Ruby?   Really?

For those of us who retain an interest in murder of Jack Kennedy on November 23, 1963 in Dallas, George Day, with information gleaned from the notorious stripper Candy Barr, bares it all and weaves an impressive account of what really happened that day. Candy Barr and Jack Ruby although never intimate were long time “platonic friends”, only because of the fact that Jack Ruby was gay. Day recounts the events leading to their close relationship and presents names, dates, and facts that solve the mystery of the assassination of a president. This book will leave you spellbound and amazed.

Fred P. Seato
Deaf Smith County Herald

An excellent description of a wicked Dallas on the day President John F. Kennedy was killed. Day presents a persuasive account of circumstances surrounding the murders of Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald and presents supporting evidence for the 4 rifle shots. Its a convincing story recanted from interviews of perhaps the most talented exotic dancer that ever lived. A long time best friend to Jack Ruby, Juanita Dale Slusher, Alias Candy Barr, took Dallas by storm before she was 18. With information gained from Candy before she died, Day describes the organizational structure of the Lansky Mafia with amazing clarity. Her connections with Las Vegas as a headliner and her torrid love affair with Lansky’s West Coast mob boss gave her great insight into the inner workings of the mob. Great reading if you’re interested in what really happened in Dallas that December day in 1964.

K. Algonquin Calhoun
Editor, Cedar Hill Mountaineer

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I recently came across a book by a first time author with an unusual gift for gab. The book Juanita Dale Slusher, Alias Candy Barr, is about a beautiful Texas dancer who lived an amazing life in Dallas, Las Vegas, Hollywood, Edna Texas, and Brownwood Texas. A torrid love affair landed her in a Texas prison and was later pardoned by then Governor of Texas, John Conley. A close friendship with the likes of Dallas Ford Dealer, W. O. Bankston, Attorney Bennie Binion, and infamous best friend Jack Ruby Revealed luscious secretes about Dallas and the 4 shooters who worked together to kill Jack Kennedy. The why, who, and how is described complete with names and specific details that I as a reader was compelled to believe it.

Clem Alexander – Stowers Corner Windmill Gazette

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The Dallas of 1963 was filled with hate. The largest chapter of Ku Klux Klan in all of the United States existed in Dallas. Born of racial hatred and white superiority, it was joined by those men who controlled the activities of the Dynamic 75.This was a corporate world that hated the new laws clamped on their companies by the “New Dealers” of Frank Roosevelt in the 1930’s. Social Security, minimum wage, forty-hour workweek, unemployment insurance, federal housing, regulation of banks and Wall Street- – - they hated it all.

Story continued on Page 317 of Candy Barr, The Book.