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  • Jim Leavelle,lawman at Lee Harvey Oswald’s side,dies at 99

    08/30/2019 5:15:17 PM PDT · by mdittmar · 110 replies
    ap ^ | 8/30/2019 | DAVID WARREN
    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.
  • Jim Leavelle, Dallas detective handcuffed to Oswald when he was fatally shot, dies at 99

    08/29/2019 10:06:33 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 38 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 30, 2019 | Danielle Wallace
    The Texas police officer handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot at Dallas police headquarters two days after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died Thursday at age 99, according to family. Former Dallas police Detective Jim Leavelle was transporting Oswald to the Dallas County Jail when the assassin was suddenly shot on live television by nightclub owner and police informant Jack Ruby at point-blank range on Nov. 24, 1963. Karla Leavelle, daughter of the retired detective, confirmed her father's death to FOX 4 Dallas.