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On November 24, 1963, the Dallas police set out to transfer Lee Harvey Oswald from the city jail to the county jail.
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He didn't make it.
Lee Harvey Oswald
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Murder
See also: Jack Ruby
Ruby shooting Oswald, who is being escorted by Dallas police. Detective Jim Leavelle is wearing the tan suit. L. C. Graves is with the black hat. {L. C. Graves is hidden by Jack Ruby. He shows up better in the other famous photograph of the event, shown below.}
Location: Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Date: November 24, 1963; 60 years ago;11:21 a.m. (CST)
Target: Lee Harvey Oswald
Attack type: Murder by shooting
Weapon .38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver
Deaths: 1 (Lee Harvey Oswald)
Perpetrator: Jack Leon Ruby
Motive: Disputed
Verdict: Guilty
Convictions: Murder with malice
Sentence: Death (overturned)
On Sunday, November 24, detectives were escorting Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters toward an armored car that was to take him from the city jail (located on the fourth floor of police headquarters) to the nearby county jail. At 11:21 a.m. CST, Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot him once in the abdomen at close range. As the shot rang out, a police detective suddenly recognized Ruby and exclaimed: "Jack, you son of a bitch!" An unconscious Oswald was taken by ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital — the same hospital where Kennedy was pronounced dead two days earlier. Oswald died at 1:07 p.m; Dallas police chief Jesse Curry announced his death on a TV news broadcast.
At 2:45 p.m. the same day, an autopsy was performed on Oswald in the Office of the County Medical Examiner. Dallas County medical examiner Earl Rose announced the results of the gross autopsy: "The two things that we could determine were, first, that he died from a hemorrhage from a gunshot wound, and that otherwise he was a physically healthy male." Rose's examination found that the bullet entered Oswald's left side in the front part of the abdomen and caused damage to his spleen, stomach, aorta, vena cava, kidney, liver, diaphragm, and eleventh rib before coming to rest on his right side.
A network television pool camera was broadcasting live to cover the transfer; millions of people watching on NBC saw the shooting as it happened, and on other networks within minutes afterward. In 1964, Robert H. Jackson of the Dallas Times Herald was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his photograph taken just a moment after the shot was fired, as Oswald began to double over in pain.
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Murder
See also: Jack Ruby
Ruby shooting Oswald, who is being escorted by Dallas police. Detective Jim Leavelle is wearing the tan suit. L. C. Graves is with the black hat. {L. C. Graves is hidden by Jack Ruby. He shows up better in the other famous photograph of the event, shown below.}
Location: Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Date: November 24, 1963; 60 years ago;11:21 a.m. (CST)
Target: Lee Harvey Oswald
Attack type: Murder by shooting
Weapon .38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver
Deaths: 1 (Lee Harvey Oswald)
Perpetrator: Jack Leon Ruby
Motive: Disputed
Verdict: Guilty
Convictions: Murder with malice
Sentence: Death (overturned)
On Sunday, November 24, detectives were escorting Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters toward an armored car that was to take him from the city jail (located on the fourth floor of police headquarters) to the nearby county jail. At 11:21 a.m. CST, Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot him once in the abdomen at close range. As the shot rang out, a police detective suddenly recognized Ruby and exclaimed: "Jack, you son of a bitch!" An unconscious Oswald was taken by ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital — the same hospital where Kennedy was pronounced dead two days earlier. Oswald died at 1:07 p.m; Dallas police chief Jesse Curry announced his death on a TV news broadcast.
At 2:45 p.m. the same day, an autopsy was performed on Oswald in the Office of the County Medical Examiner. Dallas County medical examiner Earl Rose announced the results of the gross autopsy: "The two things that we could determine were, first, that he died from a hemorrhage from a gunshot wound, and that otherwise he was a physically healthy male." Rose's examination found that the bullet entered Oswald's left side in the front part of the abdomen and caused damage to his spleen, stomach, aorta, vena cava, kidney, liver, diaphragm, and eleventh rib before coming to rest on his right side.
A network television pool camera was broadcasting live to cover the transfer; millions of people watching on NBC saw the shooting as it happened, and on other networks within minutes afterward. In 1964, Robert H. Jackson of the Dallas Times Herald was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his photograph taken just a moment after the shot was fired, as Oswald began to double over in pain.
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Context
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Encyclopedia Britannica
Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a distraught Dallas nightclub owner.
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Encyclopedia Britannica
Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a distraught Dallas nightclub owner.
Lee Harvey Oswald Shot On Camera | Archives | TODAY
TODAY
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TODAY's Hugh Downs and NBC Washington Correspondent Martin Agronsky discuss the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald on November 25, 1963.
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TODAY
4.19M subscribers
1,383,115 views Jun 4, 2014
TODAY's Hugh Downs and NBC Washington Correspondent Martin Agronsky discuss the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald on November 25, 1963.
» Subscribe to TODAY: http://on.today.com/SubscribeToTODAY
» Watch the latest from TODAY: http://bit.ly/LatestTODAY
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Thu Nov 24, 2022: On this day, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred,
Tue Nov 24, 2020: On this day, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred,
Sun Nov 24, 2019: On this date, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred,
Jim Leavelle died in 2019. There are more pictures of this incident in those DU threads.
August 29, 2019: Jim Leavelle, detective in historic photo of Lee Harvey Oswald's shooting, dies at 99
August 30, 2019: Jim Leavelle, detective in historic photo of Lee Harvey Oswald's shooting, dies at 99
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