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M. Nick McDonald handwritten signed account of his experience arresting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder. Text reads in part, ''...I went to the exit curtains to the left of the movie screen...[Oswald] was at the rear on the main floor, three rows from the partition of the lobby, quietly sitting in the second chair from the right center aisle. He was staring straight ahead watching the movie...a Friday matinee showing of double bill features, ''Cry of Battle'' and ''War is Hell''...I made my decision to try an act of diversion. I searched two men seated in the middle...I started walking unhurriedly up the aisle toward him. Slowly, deliberately, I was closing the distance between us....his empty hands were folded in his lap. As he calmly looked up at me, I spoke with a strong voice of authority, 'Get on your feet'! He realized he had waited too long to make a free and open move of aggression. He stood slowly, as if in slow motion, facing the movie screen, blinking and turning his head to me...I stared into his icy cold, steel blue eyes...Without a command, he started bringing up both hands and in a voice of resignation, he spoke softly, 'Well, it's all over now'! I though he was giving up...Suddenly his left hand made a tight fist and it exploded between my eyes...knocked my head back...I felt him pulling a pistol from underneath his shirt...He brought the pistol up to my chest, I grabbed for it with my left hand and grasped his pistol over the cylinder and hammer with all the strength I could muster. I could feel the hammer glide under my hand, as he pulled the trigger...I stood rigid waiting for the bullet to penetrate my chest...I pivoted his pistol to the side and away from my body and realized I was not shot. With a clutched fist, I hot him over his left eye, knocking him into seat. With a lunge of desperation, I fell on top of him to cover him with my body...to smother his movements. I was in a desperate struggle to gain possession of his pistol...I somehow managed to grasp the handle of his pistol with my right hand and jerked it away from him. I shoved the muzzle into his stomach...I pulled the pistol away and handed it to a detective standing in the aisle. I called out to my fellow Officers, 'I've got him!!!!!!' Officer M. 'Nick' McDonald / - Captor of Oswald - / 11-22-63''. Document runs 6pp. on 6 sheets of plain white stationery, measuring 8.5'' x 11''. Stapled and creased at the upper left corner. Near fine.
Thrilling Handwritten Account of the Capture of Lee Harvey Oswald by the Police Officer Who Arrested Him in the Movie Theater -- ''...I grabbed for...the pistol...he pulled the trigger...''
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