As Lee Oswald is led out into the basement of Dallas Police HQ, a man wearing a suit & hat steps out from the crowd of reporters standing to his left.
The man rushes toward Oswald with a pistol in his right hand & fires one shot into his abdomen at point blank range.
Lee Oswald cries out in agony: "Ohhhhhhhhhhh......" & falls to the floor still handcuffed.
The man in the suit & hat is subdued by police & Oswald is carried back inside the police station.
The man taken into custody is known by many of the officers. His name is Jack Ruby.
Ruby runs a local strip club known as "The Carousel".
He originally came from Chicago & once worked for Al Capone.
He originally came from Chicago & once worked for Al Capone.
Lee Harvey Oswald is placed on a stretcher, put into the back of an ambulance & rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital. He arrives in critical condition.
The alleged assassin of President Kennedy is pronounced dead at 1:07 p.m. (CST).
