That guy was a keyboard wizard.
Posted on 08/30/2019 5:15:17 PM PDT by mdittmar
DALLAS (AP) — Jim Leavelle, the longtime Dallas lawman who was captured in one of history’s most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F. Kennedy’s assassin as he was fatally shot, has died. He was 99.
Leavelle,distinctive in his light-colored suit and white Stetson, is seen in the photograph with his hand on Lee Harvey Oswald, Leavelle’s body stiffening as nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot the handcuffed presidential assassin at close range on live TV in 1963. Leavelle appears shocked as Oswald grimaces in pain.
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That guy was a keyboard wizard.
Beat me to it, LOL!!
Assumes facts not in evidence, your honor.
Ruby. Rubenstein.
Chicago mobster. Relocated to Dallas
I was a 16 year old high school sophomore when JFK was offed. I remember watching the Oswald hit live on TV. Whoever photo shopped this marvelous trio was a genius. I captured it months ago and have it hanging in my cube at work. Very few co-workers are old enough or woke enough to understand its significance.
In our class we were 12 or 13 and knew enough about world events to know something about nuclear bombs,etc....particularly after the Cuban Missile Crisis in '62. After the Principal's announcement several of us,when we'd hear a plane fly overheard,would think it was a Russian bomber preparing to nuke us.
I kid you not!
I was 14 and was watching this on TV...It was a Sunday morning...
I have seen several programs about the assassination. They generally downplay Ruby’s Mob ties.
I once knew a Federal agent who knew Ruby. He didn’t know anymore about the case than anyone else, but he did know one thing. Ruby was a real member of organized crime.
I had taken the day off from school claiming I had a bad cold that Friday...I was watching TV when JFK was shot and Mom was a Southern Bell operator...I called her at work and ended up on the phone for 2 hours with her telling her what was happening and she telling the other operators...
I’ll NEVER forget that day or that Sunday...
“He really felt a need to address the theories,” Evers said. “He wanted to make sure that people knew there was no conspiracy and that one misguided person could take a shot at a president and succeed.”
I had one year on you.
I think the iconic photo of John-John saluting his father’s flag draped casket was what really got to me because that was the mement when the innocence of my childhood was pierced and I contemplated death for the first time.
I wondered what I would feel when my father was dead.
Didn’t need to find out for 43 more years.
I hope was the kind of guy who appreciated the humor in that. RiIP.
Like everyone else, I recall vividly when I heard that Kennedy had been shot. We had finished lunch and were standing around on the arcade when a student named Tim Sutton came up to us and said the President had been shot.
Now Kennedy was very unpopular in the Florida Panhandle and most students seemed happy. At the time most just assumed that he had been wounded.
After a few minutes the mood changed. Students began to say they hoped he didn’t die. A few minutes after we went back to our classrooms the principal came on the intercom and announced that he had died.
I have no idea what I was doing when LHO was shot.
OMG ROFL
I contemplated death for the first time when I went to my Grandpas funeral.
Age 6,open casket.
I contemplated death for the first time at my father’s wake,age 5,open casket.
I rushed home on my bike from Sunday School to follow the story and also watched Ruby kill Oswald at point blank range live on the black and white TV in our living room.
I was the first time I had ever witnessed someone being killed.
I remember my first thought was that no one else was home from church yet so I couldn't tell them what I had seen.
It was like watching a dream live. It was surreal.
Those are tough times,they never get easier.
It is one memory seared in my mind.....and it was 81 years ago.
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