Jim Leavelle, the longtime Dallas lawman who was escorting a handcuffed Lee Harvey Oswald when the assassin was fatally shot, dies at age 99. Leavelle joined the Dallas police force in 1950 and retired from active service in 1975.
FILE - In this Nov. 24, 1963 file photo, Lee Harvey Oswald reacts as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas police headquarters At left is Detective Jim Leavelle. The longtime Dallas lawman who was captured in one of history's most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F. Kennedy's assassin moments before he was fatally shot, has died on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. He was 99.
Leavelle’s daughter, Tanya Evers, told The Associated Press her father died Thursday while visiting her sister in Colorado. He fell earlier this week and broke his hip, requiring surgery at a Denver hospital, Evers said Friday. He responded well to the surgery, she said, but then later suffered a heart attack.
“He really felt a need to address the theories,” Evers said. “He wanted to make sure that people knew there was no conspiracy and that one misguided person could take a shot at a president and succeed.”
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