http://candy-barr.com Exotic Dancer • Actress • Singer • Author Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:18:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Norma and Candy gathered a group that night and went club hopping. Accompanying the group was Jack Newton, one of Candy's dance partners. They made the headlines that night Jack Newton had won about $40,000 from Archie Chandler in a card game. Chandler was one of Bennie Binion's men. Gene Gunter ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/08/11/jack-newton/ 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 ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/07/28/bennie-binion-and-the-weinsteins/ 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 ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/06/21/jack-leon-ruby/ 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 ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/06/08/lee-harvey-oswald-the-patsy/ 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 ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/05/17/brownwood-boy-arrested/ 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 ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/04/23/candy-in-brownwood/ 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, ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/03/25/a-book-review-by-adrian-n-turnbow-phd/ 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 ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/03/25/jack-ruby-was-gay/ 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 ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/03/24/j-algonquin-calhoun-cedar-hill-mountaineer/ 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 ... http://candy-barr.com/2010/03/16/clem-alexander-stowers-corner-windmill-gazette/