On this date, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred,

[mahatmakanejeeves]

when this happened:

Murder {of Lee Harvey Oswald}

See also: Jack Ruby



Ruby about to shoot Oswald, who is being escorted by Dallas police. Det. Jim Leavelle is wearing the tan suit. Det. L. C. Graves is wearing the dark suit. Ruby is approaching Oswald from the side, where he is unnoticed by anyone in the photograph.

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 witnessed 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 image of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.

You think these days are hectic.

Jim Leavelle died recently. There are more pictures of this incident in those DU threads.

August 29, 2019: Jim Leavelle, Dallas Detective Cuffed to Oswald Dies at 99
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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

[underpants]

1. I asked my mom about it once. She said she was sure it was fake.

Like pro wrestling. But then the nation was literally in shock. Probably more than right after 9/11.

Strange side note - Th Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan only 3 months after JFK was killed. The story I heard was that the brass at CBS went to Cronkite for his opinion (really a final Okay) and he said, "It's time for the country to have some fun".

[BigmanPigman]

2. It was really a BIG deal seeing it happen on live TV!

I wad only a year old but my mom said everyone was watching and it was unbelievable.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Video footage. It's short.

Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby
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Jack Ruby shoots and kills Lee Harvey Oswald in front of news cameras. From "The Assassination of President Kennedy."

[rsdsharp]

10. That was Tom Pettit saying Oswald's been shot.

Pettit got his start in TV news in Iowa. At one time he worked under a news director named Warren Meade, who told him to find another line of work -- that he'd never make it in broadcasting. After Pettit became Executive Vice President of NBC news (after Meade had retired as a local news director), Pettit had a plaque made with Meade's advice to him. Annually, he would Xerox the plaque, have the current NBC anchor sign it, and mail it to Meade.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

[bobbieinok]

4. Oswald's death was sure convenient---for somebody. No trial, cross-examination, etc

[bobbieinok]

5. And who were the people on the commission 'investigating' JFK's death? Goal--calm people

[demtenjeep]

6. did anyone ever get the definitive answer as to why?

Also, did Ruby die in prison?

[Boomerproud]

8. Ruby died in prison January 1967.

He asked Chief Justice Earl Warren to be brought up to Washington to testify to the committee because he claimed he couldn't speak freely in Dallas "about my situation ".

[Buckeyeblue]

7. Jack Ruby had connections to organized crime

I think that Oswald was supposed to be killed before he got picked up by police. That's an old mob trick. Get someone to do a hit. And once the hit is complete, kill the hit man. RFK went after the mob hard. The mob felt double-crossed because they supported Kennedy in 1960. History might be a little different if they could have kept Oswald alive.

[Blue_true]

9. There is an iconic picture of the look on Oswald's face when the bullet hit him.

I remember seeing that a few years after his assasination by Ruby. I think Ruby was dying of cancer and didn't live long after the shooting.