Dallas newspaper on Oswald killed...

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, Nov. 25, 1963.

* Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby
* Best issue on this famous event - terrific front page photo - original reporting from the city where it happened
* A great, unique gift idea

Terrific and most unusual issue, as the entire front page--save for the banner headline: "Night Club Man Kills Oswald John F. Kennedy's Body Borne to Capitol"--is taken up with a huge photo showing Jack Ruby thrusting his pistol forward in the direction of Oswald and others, a split second before Oswald was shot. Plenty of more related photos and headlines inside this 48 page issue. A great issue for display.

 

Historical Background: At 11:21 am CST Sunday, November 24, Oswald was shot and fatally wounded before live TV cameras in the basement of Dallas police headquarters by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner with many friends and acquaintances in the Dallas Police and the underworld. Millions watched the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the first time a homicide was captured and shown publicly on live television. However, it was carried live only on NBC, via a live remote from their Dallas-Ft. Worth affiliate station WBAP-TV.

Upon receiving word of the shooting, CBS-TV immediately cuts from Roger Mudd's report at the U.S. Capitol back to the CBS newsroom and Harry Reasoner, who reports a scuffle at the Dallas City Jail. By the time the network switches to the jail, Dallas police and officials are wrestling Ruby to the ground and leading him out of the basement and into the jail. TV networks replayed the incident from videotape many times over the following days. Among the newscasters present during the shooting were Tom Pettit for NBC-TV, Bob Huffaker for CBS affiliate KRLD-TV, and Ike Pappas of WNEW Radio.

Unconscious, Oswald was put into an ambulance and rushed to the same hospital where JFK had died. Doctors did their best to save Oswald, but Ruby's single bullet had severed major abdominal blood vessels, and the doctors were unable to repair the massive trauma. At 48 hours and 7 minutes after the President's death, Oswald was pronounced dead. After a full autopsy, Oswald's body^[44] was returned to his family.

Oswald's grave is in Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park in Fort Worth.^[45] The inexpensive coffin was provided at the expense of the state. The November 25th burial and funeral were paid for by Oswald's brother Robert. There was no religious service and reporters acted as pallbearers. When his mother died in 1981 she was buried next to Oswald with no headstone. Originally his headstone read Lee Harvey Oswald, but this marker was stolen and replaced with one which only reads Oswald. His wife Marina, who was sequestered by federal agents the day after the assassination and later released, married Kenneth Porter in 1965 and her two daughters June and Rachel took Porter's last name.