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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn this day, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred,
Sun Nov 24, 2019: On this date, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred,
when this happened:
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, 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
struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,546 posts)the CBS affiliate I was stunned when I turned the corner to an inner lobby and there was a floor to ceiling blow up of an Oswald being shot photo and pointed at it was the actual TV camera that made one of the images.
The camera as it now sits in the Texas Broadcast Museum.
Siwsan
(26,259 posts)We were at my grandmother's house and my parents had stepped out to go somewhere. When they returned and were walking up the sidewalk, I remember running outside to tell them what we'd just seen.
underpants
(182,769 posts)Mind you, in the early days of TV pro wrestling was taking full advantage of it. Three industries that always take advantage of new media or communications are violence (pro wrestling), religion, and porn.
Not to be a conspiracy monger here but that was one magic bullet from Rubys gun. Close range I understand but that bullet did a lot of damage.
Blues Heron
(5,931 posts)He was strip club owner who REALLY wanted to spare Jackie a trial lol.
samnsara
(17,616 posts)elevator
(415 posts)He never said another word about it.
Lee Karvey Osawald
James Earl Ray
Sirhan Sirhan
Jeffrey Epstien
They all died for the cause.