Nick McDonald

In 1963, McDonald was a police officer in Dallas, Texas. On November 22, President John F. Kennedy was shot near where McDonald was, and he responded to a report of a suspicious man at a movie theater. The man was pointed out to McDonald, who went in to confront the man. It was Lee Harvey Oswald, who had just shot Kennedy. "He made a fist and bam, hit me right between the eyes," McDonald said in his memoir, "The Arrest and Capture of Lee Harvey Oswald". "I came back and hit him." Then Oswald pulled a gun as McDonald wrestled with him. "I could feel the hammer glide under my hand as he pulled the trigger," McDonald recalled. "I stood rigid, waiting for the bullet to penetrate my chest." But his instinct saved him: "The returning hammer made a dull, audible snapping sound as the firing pin struck the flesh of my left hand, between the thumb and forefinger." He was able to pin Oswald until other officers could help take him into custody. "It feels good that I got the guy who got the president, really," he once said. His wife Rose said he believed Oswald acted alone that day. "He was not into conspiracies at all," she says. "He knew too much about the case." During his 25-year career with the department, he received 26 commendations. McDonald died January 27 from diabetes. He was 76. From This is True for 23 January 2005 Suggestions for further reading: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass Amazon Price: $19.80 Customer Review: By far the most comprehensive and best researched publication on the assassination of President Kennedy. The author presents fact after fact leading the reader to draw conclusions which are hard to avoid. I am surprised that this book has not had m...   Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi Amazon Price: $32.97 Customer Review: A bit long and drawn out, but one more sane voice in the wilderness trying to talk the conspiracy theorists off the ledge. But it will be, I'm certain, to no avail. Here's how the world works in Conspiracy Land... If 9...   Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann Amazon Price: $16.47 Customer Review: It was the book that my mother had been looking for. The only down side is that the print is extremely small. I had to buy her a sheet to magnify the paper to make it easier for her to read.   Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs Amazon Price: $15.78 Customer Review: There are many books on the JFK assassination, but Jim Marrs' book is one of the best available to explain the event. He reviews the witnesses, their position, the films and pictures never considered, including deaf witness Ed Hoffman, w...   Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi Amazon Price: $9.87 Customer Review: It's true: Those of us alive at the time will "never forget" exactly where we were when the tragic news was given us, President John F. Kennedy "was shot at, and was killed, this day in Dallas." On that day a "wound" was inflicted, on each one of u...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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