Jim Leavelle, the longtime Dallas lawman who was captured in one of American history's most iconic photographs as he escorted JFK's assassin as he was fatally shot, has died at age 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.
Her father through the decades received mail nearly every day from people asking questions about the assassination or invoking any one of several conspiracy theories, she said. Leavelle joined the Dallas police force in 1950 and retired from active service in 1975. He was among the lead detectives assigned to investigate Kennedy's Nov. 22, 1963, assassination.
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