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Thread ID: 16473 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-01-28
2005-01-28 18:48 | User Profile
[I]Does anyone in here believe that Oswald shot Kennedy?[/I]
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[SIZE=4] Officer Who Nabbed Lee Harvey Oswald Dies [/SIZE]
1 hour, 17 minutes ago U.S. National - AP
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Nick McDonald, a former policeman who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theater after President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, died Thursday. He was 76.
McDonald arrived at Dallas' Dealey Plaza moments after Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22, 1963. Later that day, he searched the Texas Theater and helped make the historic arrest, grappling with the man suspected of shooting Kennedy after Oswald pulled a gun.
By then, Oswald already had shot another Dallas officer dead in a confrontation.
"He made a fist and bam, hit me right between the eyes," McDonald recalled years afterward. "Knocked my hat off. I came back and hit him."
But it wasn't until later in the day that McDonald realized whom he had captured.
McDonald died at a local hospital of complications from diabetes, said his wife, Rose.
In a memoir, "The Arrest and Capture of Lee Harvey Oswald," McDonald recalled going to the rear of the theater after police received a tip that a suspicious man had entered without paying.
"As I peeked through the heavy curtains out into the audience (fellow officer Johnny Brewer), at my shoulder, pointed out the suspect," McDonald wrote. As the two officers confronted Oswald, the suspect said, "Well, it's all over now."
As police tried to search and cuff him, Oswald pulled a pistol and tried to fire, but McDonald grabbed the weapon and moved to block the trigger with his hand.
"I could feel the hammer glide under my hand," McDonald wrote. "The returning hammer made a dull, audible snapping sound as the firing pin struck the flesh of my left hand, between the thumb and forefinger.
"Bracing myself, I stood rigid, waiting for the bullet to penetrate my chest."
But the bullet didn't fire.
McDonald jerked the weapon from Oswald, fell on top of him and finally subdued him.
Born March 21, 1928, in Camden, Ark., he graduated from Camden High School, served in the Navy and was a Korean War veteran.
After the military, McDonald served 25 years with the Dallas Police Department, retiring as a sergeant and moving to Hot Springs in 1980. [/COLOR]
2005-01-28 20:42 | User Profile
Well if he didn't, thousands of otherwise respectable policemen, lawyers and doctors have been lying for 40 years
2005-01-28 23:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Petr][I]Does anyone in here believe that Oswald shot Kennedy?[/I]
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It is likely that Oswald took a shot at him.
2005-01-29 00:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Bardamu]It is likely that Oswald took a shot at him.[/QUOTE]
Oswald didn't take a shot at JFK.......No Name Key, Florida Keys.
2005-01-29 07:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=mmartins]Well if he didn't, thousands of otherwise respectable policemen, lawyers and doctors have been lying for 40 years[/QUOTE]If Oswald was the lone gunman why was he rubbed out so quickly, by a jew criminal who had mafia connections, who then himself died in prison within just a few years? And some of the doctors that worked on Kennedy to try to save him and also doctors who performed the autopsy did dispute the "magic bullet theory" And the cop that Oswald supposedly shot was rumored to have connections to Jack ruby, through Ruby's night club that often had police officers as cutomers. Even the house sellect committee on Assasinations, while saying that Oswald was the one who fired the fatal head shot, also found evidence of a second gunman.