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Jim Leavelle. 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.
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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 moments before he was fatally shot, has died.
Aug 30, 2019 · Published 8:37 AM PDT, August 30, 2019. 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 ...
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 · Jim Leavelle pictured in 2017. Photograph: Devon Ravine/AP. Two days later Oswald, then a suspect in the shooting of a police officer but not yet formally tied to the murder of the president, was ...
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Aug 30, 2019 · Jim Leavelle was the officer who handcuffed himself to Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of JFK, when he was shot by Jack Ruby in 1963. He died in Colorado after breaking his hip in a fall.
Aug 30, 2019 · Jim Leavelle was a Dallas lawman who was in the iconic photo with Lee Harvey Oswald before Jack Ruby killed him in 1963. He spoke out against conspiracy theories and received a police award in 2013.
