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Jim Leavelle

American police detective (1920–2019)

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Lived 1920–2019, aged 99United States

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Aged 99
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Reel Radicals: The Six…
2002

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Updated 2026-06-15

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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