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| Front page of New York Daily News, Nov. 25, 1963 |
Mr. Leavelle, a Dallas homicide detective, was one of the officers escorting Lee Harvey Oswald, in 1963, when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby; the shooting took place.in the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters.
Mr. Leavelle is seen at the left of both of the above photographs (wearing a tan suit, and a white Stetson); the top photograph was taken by Jack Beers, of the Dallas Morning News; the bottom photo, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, was by Bob Jackson, of the Dallas Times Herald.
Mr. Leavelle died on Thursday, at age 99.
Here is an obituary, from the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/james-leavelle-dead.html
Here, too, is an additional post about Mr. Leavelle (and the historic 1963 photographs in which he figured prominently), from my primary blog:
http://andrewleefielding.blogspot.com/2019/08/james-leavelle-dallas-homicide-detective.html
