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James Robert Leavelle (August 23, 1920 – August 29, 2019) was a Dallas Police Department homicide detective who, on November 24, 1963, was escorting Lee Harvey Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police headquarters when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.
Pictures of his face and Stetson hat are familiar ones to Americans of a certain age. On 24 November 1963, half a century ago, Dallas Police detective Jim Leavelle was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected assassin of President John Kennedy.
Aug 30, 2019 · He was the man in the white hat who escorted Lee Harvey Oswald when the JFK assassin was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. Leavelle was one of the last living key figures in the case.
Aug 30, 2019 · In the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the moment Ruby shot Oswald, Leavelle is prominent, a tall man wearing a tan suit and Stetson hat, handcuffed to Oswald and reacting with shock.
Aug 30, 2019 · Leavelle was the Dallas police detective in the beige suit and matching Stetson hat who was handcuffed to Oswald when nightclub owner Jack Ruby pulled the trigger two days after President John F....
Aug 29, 2019 · Aug. 29, 2019. James R. Leavelle, the big man in the white Stetson who epitomized the horrors of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in one of the most famous photographs of all time...
Aug 30, 2019 · Leavelle, dressed in a light colored suit and high-crowned hat, is seen arching backward with a stunned look focused on Ruby. His left hand - the one handcuffed to Oswald - is grasping the...
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