Jim Leavelle, the Dallas police detective who handcuffed himself to Lee Harvey O...
Jim Leavelle, the Dallas police detective who handcuffed himself to Lee Harvey Oswald in a vain attempt to protect him two days after Oswald had assassinated President John Kennedy, died on Thursday at age 99, his daughter said.
Leavelle became a part of history with Oswald and Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby as they were all captured in a dramatic photograph snapped as Ruby fatally shot Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963. “He died, didn’t he?” Leavelle said of Oswald in a 2013 interview with NBC News. “So, I ... so yeah, I failed.” Police had received dozens of death threats against Oswald so Leavelle decided to carry two handguns that day instead of his usual one in case there was a shootout. As a further precaution, he not only handcuffed Oswald’s wrists together, he handcuffed his left wrist to Oswald’s right.“I said, ‘Lee, if anybody shoots at you, I hope they’re as good a shot as you are,’” Leavelle told the New York Daily News in 2013. “I meant that they would hit him and not me.
The day after the Oswald killing, Leavelle transferred Ruby between facilities - this time in secret - and Ruby told him he feared someone would try to kill him, too.
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