Paul Bentley, 87, a Dallas police veteran who helped arrest presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died Monday of natural causes, said his grandson, David Ottinger.
Bentley retired as a detective five years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He played a supporting role on Nov. 22, 1963, originally responding to Oswald's fatal shooting of 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 seen with 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 he was fatally shot by Jack Ruby.
Larry Haines, 89, who won two Daytime Emmys for his 35-year role as Stu Bergman on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," died July 17. He also had a successful career on Broadway generally billed as A. Larry Haines.
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