At 11:21 am Sunday, November 24 1963, while he was handcuffed to Detective Leavelle and as he was about to be taken to the Dallas County Jail, Oswald was shot and fatally wounded before live television cameras in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator who said, when accused, he had been distraught over the Kennedy assassination. He was thought to have said, "You killed the President, you rat!"[106]
Unconscious, Oswald was put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where JFK had died two days earlier. Doctors operated on Oswald, but Ruby's single bullet had severed major abdominal blood vessels, and the doctors were unable to repair the massive trauma. Oswald was pronounced dead at 1:07 pm. After a full autopsy, Oswald's body[107] was returned to his family. Oswald's grave is in Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park in Fort Worth.[108][109] The original tombstone, which included Oswald's full name and dates of birth and death, was stolen; today, the grave is marked by a stone which reads simply, Oswald.[110] Because Oswald did not live to stand trial for the murder of President Kennedy, he is still legally presumed not guilty.
His wife Marina Oswald Porter was sequestered by federal agents the day after the assassination and later released. However, she had Secret Service protection until she concluded her testimony before the Warren Commission.
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