Paul Bentley DALLAS (AP) _ Paul Bentley, a Dallas police veteran who helped arrest presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater, had died. He was 87. Bentley died Monday of natural causes in his Dallas home, said his grandson, David Ottinger. Bentley worked for the police department for 21 years, starting as a patrol officer and retiring as a detective five years after the assassination of President Kennedy. He played a supporting role on Nov. 22, 1963, originally responding to Oswald's fatal shooting of police Officer J.D. Tippit. Bentley and other officers tracked Oswald to the Texas Theater, arresting the assassin after a brief scuffle. In a well-known photograph taken just after the arrest, Bentley is wearing a suit with his hair slicked back and a cigar in his mouth, escorting Oswald out of the theater. Oswald appears to have a cut on his forehead, which Bentley said came from his Masonic ring. Bentley had another connection to Oswald. His brother-in-law, L.C. Graves, was one of the officers escorting Oswald when the killer was shot to death by Jack Ruby. Graves, who died in 1995, can be seen to Oswald's left in a famous photograph of the shooting. ___ Larry Haines DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Larry Haines, who won two Daytime Emmys for his 35-year role on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," died July 17. He was 89. Continued... |