FILE PHOTO: Former Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle stands in front of a Pultizer Prize winning photo at The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, October 15, 2002. Leavelle stood front and center in arguably one of the most famous news photographs of all time with a shocked look on his face as Lee Harvey Oswald, withering in pain, was shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police headquarters on November 24, 1963. REUTERS/Jon Herskovitz/FOR FEATURE STORY PEOPLE-LEAVELLE - RP3DRIFEBNAA/File Photo
Jim Leavelle, the Dallas police detective who handcuffed himself to Lee Harvey Oswald in a vain attempt to protect him two days after Oswald had assassinated President John Kennedy, died on Thursday at age 99, his daughter said.
Leavelle, who lived in the Dallas area, died in Colorado during a vacation, Karla Leavelle said by phone. He fell earlier in the week and broke his hip, surviving a subsequent medical operation but not the recovery, she said.
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