A Conversation with Jim Leavelle and Eddie Barker

Recorded on January 24, 2007, "A Conversation with Jim Leavelle and Eddie Barker" was the inaugural program in the Museum's "Voices from History: Dallas Law Enforcement" program series. James Leavelle was the Dallas police detective immortalized in Bob Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Wearing a light-colored suit and a cowboy hat, Leavelle was handcuffed to Oswald and helped wrestle Jack Ruby to the ground. Eddie Barker was news director for Dallas CBS affiliate KRLD-TV/Channel 4 in 1963. He was heavily involved in local news coverage of the assassination and was the first to announce President Kennedy's death.

To launch this 2007 series, Judge Joe B. Brown, Jr. provided a special introduction. A Dallas justice of the peace in 1963, Brown held an inquest into the death of Officer Tippit and issued search warrants for several assassination-related locations. His father, the late Judge Joe B. Brown, presided over the Jack Ruby trial in 1964.

Mr. Barker passed away on July 23, 2012.

Judge Brown passed away on July 30, 2013.

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