One of the most shocking moments in American history, captured live on television and in photographs. On the morning of November 24, 1963, just two days after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred from Dallas Police Headquarters to the county jail. As he was escorted through the basement of the Dallas Police Department, nightclub owner Jack Ruby stepped forward from the crowd of reporters and detectives and fired a single .38-caliber revolver shot into Oswald’s abdomen at point-blank range.
Oswald died approximately two hours later at Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where President Kennedy had died two days earlier.
The shooting was broadcast live on national television, making it one of the first acts of violence ever witnessed in real time by a mass audience. The famous photograph, taken by Robert H. Jackson of the Dallas Times Herald, won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
Jack Ruby (52) shoots Lee Harvey Oswald (24). The image was captured by Dallas Times Herald photographer Robert H. Jackson and it won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
Jack Beers’s photograph taken a split second before Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963. The photo was used on the front page of the Dallas Morning News the next day
A camera captures the back of Jack Ruby as he shoots Lee Harvey Oswald who is being escorted by guards during a television press conference at the Dallas police headquarters.
The AP says this is Jack Ruby’s hat on the ground just after shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
Mugshot of Jack Ruby taken November 24, 1963, after his arrest for killing Lee Harvey Oswald.
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