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The Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald

Washington, DC
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Former homicide detective James Leavelle looks back at the morning Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas, on November 24, 1963. At the time of the shooting Oswald was in police custody on suspicion of assassinating President John F. Kennedy two days earlier. Mr. Leavelle was Oswald’s police escort when Jack Ruby killed him in the midst of police, reporters, and live television cameras.

Updated: Monday, August 8, 2011 at 11:58am (ET)

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