Existing comment:
1964: Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald:
Friday, Nov. 22, 1963: Dallas Times Herald photographer Robert Jackson rode in President John F. Kennedy's Dallas motorcade. Crowds cheered. Flags flew. Jackson stopped snapping photographs to change film. That instant the world changed. Shots. Bedlam. Jackson saw a rifle in the Texas School Book Depository window. He had no film in his camera. Within minutes, the president was dead.
On Sunday, Jackson showed up at Dallas police headquarters to cover assassination suspect Lee Harvey Oswald's transfer to the county jail. "I walked right in. There was no security." Jackson picked his spot in the garage, pre-focusing. "They said, 'Here he comes,' and they brought him out." Someone stepped in front of Jackson. "My first reaction was, 'This guy's getting in my way.'"
Nightclub owner Jack Ruby took two steps and fired. "I guess I fired about the same time." |