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Aug 30, 2019 · 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 ...
Aug 30, 2019 · 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 ...
Aug 30, 2019 · 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 ...
Aug 30, 2019 · A Detroit High School classmate predicted in the 1939 yearbook that Leavelle would become a big-city detective. “I don’t know how the others fared, but he hit me right on the head,” Leavelle ...
Aug 30, 2019 · Jim Leavelle Obituary. James R. “Jim” Leavelle was a Dallas Police Department homicide detective who was escorting Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot by Jack Ruby. Oswald, who had assassinated President John F. Kennedy two days earlier, died shortly after the shooting. We invite you to share condolences for Jim Leavelle in our Guest Book.
Aug 30, 2019 · Jim Leavelle, a Dallas lawman who was captured in one of history’s most iconic photos as he escorted President John F. Kennedy’s assassin as he was fatally shot, has died. He was 99.
In April 1942, the Whitney left Pearl and headed for the South Pacific to support operations there. One day while the ship was in a storm at sea, Leavelle was descending a ladder when a large wave hurled him to the deck. The impact seriously damaged his knees, and he was evacuated to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital near Oakland, California.
