Lee Harvey Oswald captured in a theater 50 years ago this hour (1963)


Video: 'The Arrest of Donald House and Lee Harvey Oswald' (Oswald arrested at 1:58)

(Friday, November 22, 1963, 1:55 p.m. CST) — Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested this afternoon after a struggle in the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff. An employee of the book depository from where the fatal shots were fired at President Kennedy 85 minutes before, Oswald was wanted in the fatal shooting of police officer J.D. Tippit just 40 minutes before at the corner of 10th Street and Patton Avenue.