The nation is set to mark 61 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as his motorcade passed through downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

The National Archives has made public nearly 1,500 documents related to the U.S. government’s investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F.

Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, but it might not be an obvious fact to many that Oswald and Kennedy actually had their respective funerals on the same day.

Retired Dallas Police Detective Jim Leavelle, who escorted Lee Harvey Oswald when he was killed by Jack Ruby has died at age 99. DALLAS, Texas - Retired Dallas Police Homicide Detective Jim Leavelle has died at the age of 99. He was the man in the white hat who escorted Lee Harvey Oswald when the JFK assassin was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. Oswald died and later, Ruby died in jail. Leavelle retired from the Dallas Police Department in April 1975.

Jim Leavelle, seen here in 1998, holds the photograph showing him handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. (CNN) - James Leavelle, the Dallas detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was fatally shot, has died, his family told CNN. Leavelle shot to fame after he was photographed next to Oswald, the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, in November 1963. Oswald, an ex-Marine, assassinated Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, and shot Dallas police officer J.D. In 2013, Leavelle told CNN he wished Oswald had not been shot.