Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old male of Russian ethnicity, died on November 24, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Oswald was accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The day after Kennedy's assassination, Oswald was arrested for the murder of a Dallas police officer, J.D. Tippit.
On November 24, while being transferred from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was fatally shot by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner.
Ruby claimed that his actions were driven by grief and anger over Kennedy's murder. The shooting was captured on live television, and Ruby was immediately arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Oswald was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:07 p.m. The official cause of death was a hemorrhage caused by a gunshot wound to the chest. Ruby's trial began in 1964, but before a verdict could be reached, he died of lung cancer in January 1967 while awaiting a new trial.
The Warren Commission, established to investigate Kennedy's assassination, concluded in 1964 that Oswald acted alone and that Ruby's killing of Oswald was not part of a larger conspiracy. However, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, in a 1978 report, suggested that Kennedy's assassination might have been the result of a conspiracy, though it did not directly implicate Ruby or Oswald in such a conspiracy.
Despite the official findings, numerous conspiracy theories have persisted over the years, suggesting that Oswald and Ruby were part of a larger plot. The events surrounding Oswald's death and the subsequent investigations have remained a subject of intense scrutiny and debate.
