Maurice McDonald, 76, Dies; Arrested Oswald in ‘63
NY Times
Maurice McDonald, the Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald little more than an hour after the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died Thursday. He was 76.
Mr. McDonald, who was known as Nick, died of complications of diabetes in Hot Springs, Ark., said his wife, Rose McDonald.
Officer McDonald arrived at Dealey Plaza minutes after Kennedy was shot. Shortly afterward, he was sent to a movie theater where a suspicious person had been reported.
As Officer McDonald approached the suspect in the darkened theater, Oswald rose from his seat and struck him, then pushed a pistol into the officer’s abdomen and pulled the trigger. The gun’s hammer was blocked by the flesh of Officer McDonald’s palm, he later recounted.
