Deceased
How Did Jim Leavelle Die?
Life & Death
Died aged 99NationalityUnited StatesBorn23/08/1920Died29/08/2019Died inDenverCausemyocardial infarctionWikidataQ3432959 ↗Buried atGrove Hill Memorial ParkTMDb#1544132 ↗
James Robert Leavelle was a Dallas Police Department homicide detective who, on November 24, 1963, was escorting Lee Harvey Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police headquarters when Oswald was fatally shot by Jack Ruby. Leavelle prominently appeared in films and photographs of the murder, including one that won a Pulitzer Prize—taken just as Ruby shot Oswald.
Read full Wikipedia article ↗Filmography1 title
| Year | Title | Character | Age at release |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in FilmMovie | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 82 |