Candy Barr (July 6, 1935 – December 30, 2005) was an American stripper, burlesque dancer, actress, and adult model in men’s magazines of the mid-20th century.During the 1950s she received nationwide attention for her stripping career in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas; her troubles with the law; shooting her estranged second husband; and being arrested and sentenced to a prison term for drug possession, as well as her relationships with Mickey Cohen and Jack Ruby.After serving three years in prison, Barr began a new life in South Texas. She briefly returned to stripping in the late 1960s, posed for Oui magazine in the 1970s, and then retired. In the early 1980s, Barr was acknowledged in the magazine Texas Monthly as one of history’s “perfect Texans,” along with other Texans including Lady Bird Johnson.
The Colony Club and Jack Ruby's Carousel club were both located on Commerece Street in downtown Dallas. They were only two doors apart.
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Her career was derailed in 1959 when she was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Dallas judge for possessing less than an ounce of marijuana. She served three years of that time then was released.
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Was associated with Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who was accused of gunning down Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
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She rose to prominence as an exotic dancer in Dallas in the late 1950's in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas areas reportedly making $2,000 per week.
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As Juanita Dale Phillips she made a statement to the FBI on November 26, 1963 regarding her knowledge of Jack Ruby prior to the John F. Kennedy assassination and Ruby's subsequent murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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