Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

This article is about a photo of the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. For the murder, see Lee Harvey Oswald ยง Murder.

Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1963 photograph of nightclub owner Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. The image was captured by Dallas Times Herald photographer Robert H. Jackson and it won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.

Jackson took the photograph in the basement of the Dallas jail at the exact moment when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Another reporter, Jack Beers of The Dallas Morning News, took a similar photo a split-second before Ruby fired the shot.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, the Jackson image also won awards from the Texas Headliners Club and Sigma Delta Chi. In 2019, The New York Times said the image was "chillingly captured".

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