Candy Barr occupied a special, if unusual, place in American folklore. She was a legendary exotic dancer who rose from poverty to star in a famous stag film, shot one of her four husbands and went to prison for marijuana possession, but was best known for befriending the man who killed John F. Kennedy’s assassin.She was 70.
Barr claimed that at age 16 she was drugged and forced to play the lead role in a grainy black-and-white stag film called “Smart Aleck,” which has been called the most popular film of the genre. She has been likened to foul-mouthed comic Lenny Bruce as a leading subverter of public morality, and in 1999, Playboy magazine called her one of the 20th century's most desirable women.
She rose from stag starlet to cigarette girl to exotic dancer and became well known enough to take on a stage name, Candy Barr, a reference to her love of chocolate. She also did some legitimate theater.
Barr shot her second husband in the stomach in 1956 after he came home drunk and threatened her. He testified that he was at fault and charges were dismissed. Later that year, she was busted for marijuana possession after being wiretapped by the
Barr more or less disappeared from public view in the last 35 years of her life, but always will be remembered for her friendship with Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner and mob wannabe who shot Lee Harvey Oswald before a live national television audience of millions on November 24, 1963, as he was being transferred from police headquarters to a nearby jail.
"Let the world find someone else to talk about," Barr told a reporter in 2001 when approached about doing an interview. "I like being left alone."
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