List of Famous people with last name Leavelle

Jim Leavelle

First Name Jim

Last Name Leavelle

Born on August 23, 1920

Died on August 29, 2019 (aged 99)

Born in United States of America, Texas

James Robert Leavelle was a Dallas Police Department homicide detective who, on November 24, 1963, was escorting John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police headquarters when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. Several photographs—including one that won a Pulitzer Prize—were taken of Oswald just before and as Ruby pulled the trigger.

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