Police honor man who led them to Lee Harvey Oswald

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

DALLAS -- Dallas police honored a man on Tuesday whose "keen observation skills and strong sense of civic duty" led them to Lee Harvey Oswald, who had crept into the back of a darkened movie theater to hide on Nov. 22, 1963, shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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