Detective who wrestled pistol from Ruby dies. L.C. Graves put the gun in his pocket that day in 1963, then rode to the hospital with a dying Lee Harvey Oswald.: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - Sunday, February 12, 1995
Deceased Name: Detective who wrestled pistol from Ruby dies L.C. Graves put the gun in his pocket that day in 1963, then rode to the hospital with a dying Lee Harvey Oswald.
KAUFMAN - The Dallas police detective who wrestled the gun away from Jack Ruby after he shot Lee Harvey Oswald died yesterday of heart failure. L.C. Graves was 76.
Mr. Graves was one of three Dallas officers escorting Oswald, the suspect in President John F. Kennedy's assassination, from the city jail to the county jail Nov. 24, 1963.
In the moment after Ruby fired a single shot at Oswald in the basement of Dallas City Hall, Mr. Graves grabbed the revolver and Ruby's wrist, preventing a second shot from being fired.
Mr. Graves served with the Dallas Police Department for 21 years, retiring in 1970.
D.G. Council, pastor at First Assembly of God Church in Kaufman, said that after Mr. Graves grabbed the gun, he "put it in his pocket and rode to the hospital with Oswald."
Oswald died en route to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the church in Kaufman, southeast of Dallas.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - Sunday, February 12, 1995
Deceased Name: Detective who wrestled pistol from Ruby dies L.C. Graves put the gun in his pocket that day in 1963, then rode to the hospital with a dying Lee Harvey Oswald.
KAUFMAN - The Dallas police detective who wrestled the gun away from Jack Ruby after he shot Lee Harvey Oswald died yesterday of heart failure. L.C. Graves was 76.
Mr. Graves was one of three Dallas officers escorting Oswald, the suspect in President John F. Kennedy's assassination, from the city jail to the county jail Nov. 24, 1963.
In the moment after Ruby fired a single shot at Oswald in the basement of Dallas City Hall, Mr. Graves grabbed the revolver and Ruby's wrist, preventing a second shot from being fired.
Mr. Graves served with the Dallas Police Department for 21 years, retiring in 1970.
D.G. Council, pastor at First Assembly of God Church in Kaufman, said that after Mr. Graves grabbed the gun, he "put it in his pocket and rode to the hospital with Oswald."
Oswald died en route to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the church in Kaufman, southeast of Dallas.
Detective who wrestled pistol from Ruby dies. L.C. Graves put the gun in his pocket that day in 1963, then rode to the hospital with a dying Lee Harvey Oswald.: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - Sunday, February 12, 1995
Deceased Name: Detective who wrestled pistol from Ruby dies L.C. Graves put the gun in his pocket that day in 1963, then rode to the hospital with a dying Lee Harvey Oswald.
KAUFMAN - The Dallas police detective who wrestled the gun away from Jack Ruby after he shot Lee Harvey Oswald died yesterday of heart failure. L.C. Graves was 76.
Mr. Graves was one of three Dallas officers escorting Oswald, the suspect in President John F. Kennedy's assassination, from the city jail to the county jail Nov. 24, 1963.
In the moment after Ruby fired a single shot at Oswald in the basement of Dallas City Hall, Mr. Graves grabbed the revolver and Ruby's wrist, preventing a second shot from being fired.
Mr. Graves served with the Dallas Police Department for 21 years, retiring in 1970.
D.G. Council, pastor at First Assembly of God Church in Kaufman, said that after Mr. Graves grabbed the gun, he "put it in his pocket and rode to the hospital with Oswald."
Oswald died en route to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the church in Kaufman, southeast of Dallas.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - Sunday, February 12, 1995
Deceased Name: Detective who wrestled pistol from Ruby dies L.C. Graves put the gun in his pocket that day in 1963, then rode to the hospital with a dying Lee Harvey Oswald.
KAUFMAN - The Dallas police detective who wrestled the gun away from Jack Ruby after he shot Lee Harvey Oswald died yesterday of heart failure. L.C. Graves was 76.
Mr. Graves was one of three Dallas officers escorting Oswald, the suspect in President John F. Kennedy's assassination, from the city jail to the county jail Nov. 24, 1963.
In the moment after Ruby fired a single shot at Oswald in the basement of Dallas City Hall, Mr. Graves grabbed the revolver and Ruby's wrist, preventing a second shot from being fired.
Mr. Graves served with the Dallas Police Department for 21 years, retiring in 1970.
D.G. Council, pastor at First Assembly of God Church in Kaufman, said that after Mr. Graves grabbed the gun, he "put it in his pocket and rode to the hospital with Oswald."
Oswald died en route to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the church in Kaufman, southeast of Dallas.
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