Jim Leavelle: Handcuffed To History

KGMB ^ | December 4, 2006 | Jim Mendoza

[kms61]

When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Jim Leavelle could only watch from his ship anchored away from battleship row. He was a helpless spectator.

"I could see what was happening and the carnage that was taking place over there with the blowing up and burning and all of this," he said.

Leavelle was 21 years old, two years into his hitch in the U.S. Navy. On December 7, 1941, he was a supply man on board the U.S.S. Whitney.

Fast-forward from 1941 to 1963. Leavelle, now a Dallas detective, was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald the moment Jack Ruby fired his fatal shot.

[kms61]

Ringside at two of the 20th Century's defining moments.

[Solamente]

And he could tickle the ivories like nobody's business!

[SunkenCiv]

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