# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-leavelle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:49:18.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-leavelle"
name: "Jim Leavelle"
slug: "jim-leavelle"
description: "James Robert Leavelle 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 fatally shot by Jack Ruby. Leavelle prominently appeared in films and photographs of the murder, including one that won a Pulitzer Prize—taken just as Ruby shot Oswald."
tagline: "American police detective (1920–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Harvey_Oswald_being_shot_by_Jack_Ruby_as_Oswald_is_being_moved_by_police%2C_1963.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-08-23"
deathDate: "2019-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.455589333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495349/"
    handle:    "nm0495349"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leavelle"
    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leavelle"
    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leavelle"
    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leavelle"
    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ジム・リーヴェル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leavelle"
    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leavelle"
    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leavelle"
    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3432959"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1544132"
    title: "Jim Leavelle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump