James R. Leavelle, Pearl Harbor survivor and detective at Lee Harvey Oswald’s side, dies at 99
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James R. Leavelle, the big man in the white Stetson who epitomized the horrors of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in one of the most famous photographs of all time the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby died Thursday at a hospital in Denver. He was 99.