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Jim Leavelle

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American police detective (1920-2019)

United StatesActorsLived 1920 to 2019 · aged 99
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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.

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Photos 1

Filmography 2

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film2002
As it Happened: The Killing of Kennedy1993

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About this person

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.

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United States
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Actors
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Actor
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deceased
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Lived 1920 to 2019 · aged 99
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