Word: oswalds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent further baldness) in the pool at his apartment house, then headed for police headquarters. Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry, mostly bowing to the demands of television crewmen that they be allowed to set up their cameras in time to see anything and everything that might happen to Oswald, had inanely announced that Oswald would be transferred at 10 a.m. to the county jail. The publicized plan called for moving Oswald in an armored car from the basement garage at headquarters. This was a subterfuge, for Curry really intended to use the armored vehicle as a decoy, spiriting Oswald away...
They were not careful enough. Somehow, presumably because he had become such a familiar part of the scenery, Jack Ruby succeeded in slipping in with the newsmen. At about 11 a.m. a knot of detectives and uniformed cops took Oswald out of his carefully guarded security cell on the fifth floor. His hands were manacled, and for extra safety Homicide Detective James Leavelle handcuffed himself to Oswald. "If anybody shoots at you," said Leavelle, "I hope that they are as good a shot as you are." Oswald "kind of laughed." Said he, "Nobody is going to shoot...
...Jack!" Down in the elevator and into the garage came Oswald and his guards, heading for the armored car. Somebody shouted, "Here they come!" Newsreel cameras whirred. Live TV cameras watched the action and flashed the scene instantaneously across the nation's television sets. Precisely twelve seconds after Oswald appeared, Ruby ducked out from his position among the newsmen. A detective saw him, recognized him. "Jack!" he cried. "You crazy son of a bitch!" As the cop spoke, Ruby pointed his .38-cal. revolver at Oswald and fired one shot. Oswald died 100 minutes later at Parkland General Hospital...
...that first afternoon, the Times Herald was on the streets with a remarkably comprehensive account that included quotes from eyewitnesses and police, and a description of the assassin (who was then still at large). At 4:15, the paper was reporting Lee Oswald's arrest and the murder of Dallas Policeman Tippit. It also carried a picture of the assassin's rifle and a map of the assassination scene. Demand was so heavy that although the Times Herald jumped its normal 200,000 press run by 82,000 copies, vendors hawked the 5? paper for as much...
Point-Blank. During the fast-breaking hours and days that followed, Dallas newsmen, familiar with the city, managed to beat visiting correspondents repeatedly. OSWALD'S ROOM YIELDS MAP OF BULLET'S PATH headlined the News in a copyrighted story; the News also interviewed the cab driver who had taken Oswald home after the shooting, copyrighted the driver's account...