Tamerack District Library

I traveled to Dallas Texas to interview a man who was  witness to two of Americas most important pieces of history in the last one hundred years.  Jim was at Pearl Harbor on the day of the Japanese attack on Dec. 7th 1941 aboard the USS Whitney.  He tells about the surprise attack from  his ship on the Pacific Fleet.

He also gave me my first interview that was not primarily WW II.  Jim was the Dallas Policeman who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald at the time that Jack Ruby shot and killed him.  Hear Jim tell about Dallas policeman named L.C. Graves who Jim  feels to this day saved his life at the  shooting of Lee Oswald by grabbing Ruby’s 38 revolver by the cylinder so that Ruby could not fire anymore even though Jim could see Ruby trying constantly to pull the trigger.

Jim was involved with Oswald very quickly on that fateful day in November 1063 because Oswald had shot four times and killed a Dallas policeman named J. D. Tippett  very soon after the assassination of Pres. Kennedy, which the police had not yet tied to Oswald.  Det. Leavelle’s duties were to investigate any police officer involved shootings.

Where: Tamerack District Library

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