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The Texas Theatre is a movie theater and Dallas landmark located in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas.It gained historical significance on November 22, 1963, as the location of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest over the suspicion he was the killer of Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit and President John F. Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald (born 1939) [17] was a former U.S. Marine who had served in Japan and the Philippines and had espoused communist beliefs since reading Karl Marx aged 14. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] After accidentally shooting his elbow with an unauthorized handgun and fighting an officer, Oswald was court-martialed twice and demoted. [ 19 ]
On November 22, 1963, after Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at the Texas Theatre for the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy and the murder of Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit, Leavelle told Tippit murder witnesses Ted Callaway and Sam Guinyard while they were waiting to view Oswald in a line-up, "We want to be sure, we want to try to wrap him up real tight on killing ...
The arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald Former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, who had spent time in the Soviet Union, was arrested for the murder in a movie theatre less than an hour after the shooting after ...
Nov. 25, 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald funeral, Fort Worth’s Rose Hill Cemetery; Oswald’s family at gravesite: wife, Marina with young daughter, brother R.L. Oswald of Denton, and mother Marguerite ...
Jim Leavelle, the Dallas police detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald in an attempt to protect him two days after Oswald had assassinated President John F. Kennedy, died on Thursday.
When an arrest attempt was made on Oswald inside the theater, Oswald resisted arrest and punched and attempted to shoot a patrolman after yelling, "Well, it's all over now!" [130] [116] 1:51 p.m.: Police report Oswald in custody. [91] 2:00 p.m.: Kennedy's body was removed from Parkland Hospital and driven to Air Force One at Love Field. [132]
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 for truancy , during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed" due to a lack ...