Lee
Harvey Oswald (1939–1963), the presumed assassin of
President John F.
Kennedy. Oswald allegedly
shot Kennedy from a high
window of a building in
Dallas on November 22, 1963, a s
Kennedy rode down the street in an
open car. Oswald was captured the
day of the assassination, but was never
tried; two days after
Kennedy's
death, as Oswald was being moved by
police, a nightclub owner from
Dallas,
Jack Ruby,
shot and killed him. A
government commission concluded later that Oswald, though
active in
communist causes, was not part of a
conspiracy to kill
Kennedy. Some have questioned the
findings of the
commission.
—SHSBC Binder 27 Approved Glossary