Date |
Name |
Connection with case |
Cause of death |
11/63 |
Karyn Kupicinet |
Tv host's daughter who was overheard telling of JFK's death prior to 11/22/63 |
Murdered |
12/63 |
Jack Zangretti |
Expressed foreknowledge of Ruby shooting Oswald |
Gunshot Victim |
2/64 |
Eddy Benavides |
Lookalike brother to Tippit shooting witness, Domingo Benavides |
Gunshot to head |
2/64 |
Betty MacDonald* |
Former Ruby employee who alibied Warren Reynolds shooting suspect. |
Suicide by hanging in Dallas Jail |
3/64 |
Bill Chesher |
Thought to have information linking Oswald and Ruby |
Heart attack |
3/64 |
Hank Killam* |
Husband of Ruby employee, knew Oswald acquaintance |
Throat cut |
4/64 |
Bill Hunter* |
Reporter who was in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 |
Accidental shooting by policeman |
5/64 |
Gary Underhill* |
CIA agent who claimed Agency was involved |
Gunshot in head ruled suicide |
5/64 |
Hugh Ward* |
Private investigator working with Guy Banister and David Ferrie |
Plane crash in Mexico |
5/64 |
DeLesseps Morrison* |
New Orleans Mayor |
Passenger in Ward's plane |
8/64 |
Teresa Norton* |
Ruby employee |
Fatally shot |
6/64 |
Guy Banister* |
x-FBI agent in New Orleans connected to Ferrie, CIA, Carlos Marcello & Oswald |
Heart attack |
9/64 |
Jim Koethe* |
Reporter who was in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 |
Blow to neck |
9/64 |
C.D. Jackson |
"Life" magazine senior Vicepresident who bought Zapruderfilm and locked it away |
Unknown |
10/64 |
Mary Pinchot |
JFK "special" friend whose diary was taken by CIA chief James Angleton after her death |
Murdered |
1/65 |
Paul Mandal |
"Life" writer who told of JFK turning to rear when shot in throat |
Cancer |
3/65 |
Tom Howard* |
Ruby's first lawyer, was in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 |
Heart attack |
5/65 |
Maurice Gatlin* |
Pilot for Guy Banister |
Fatal fall |
8/65 |
Mona B. Saenz* |
Texas Employment clerk who interviewed Oswald |
Hit by Dallas bus |
?/65 |
David Goldstein |
Dallasite who helped FBI trace Oswald's pistol |
Natural causes |
9/65 |
Rose Cheramie* |
Knew of assassination in advance, told of riding to Dallas with Cubans |
Hit/run victim |
11/65 |
Dorothy Kilgallen* |
Columnist who had private interview with Ruby, pledged to "break" JFK case |
Drug overdose |
11/65 |
Mrs. Earl Smith* |
Close friend to Dorothy Kilgallen, died two daysafter columnist, may have kept Kilgallen's notes |
Cause unknown |
12/65 |
William Whaley* |
Cab driver who reportedly drove Oswald to Oak Cliff (The only Dallas taxi driver to die on duty) |
Motor collision |
1966 |
Judge Joe Brown |
Presided over Ruby's trial |
Heart attack |
1966 |
Karen "Little Lynn" Carlin* |
Ruby employee who last talked with Ruby before Oswald shooting |
Gunshot victim |
1/66 |
Earlene Roberts |
Oswald's landlady |
Heart attack |
2/66 |
Albert Bogard* |
Car salesman who said Oswald test drove new car |
Suicide |
6/66 |
Capt. Frank Martin |
Dallas policeman who witnessed Oswald slaying, told Warren Commission "there's a lot to
be said but probably be better if I don't say it" |
Sudden cancer |
8/66 |
Lee Bowers Jr.* |
Witnessed men behind picket fence on Grassy Knoll |
Motor accident |
9/66 |
Marilyn "Delila Walle* |
Ruby dancer |
Shot by husband after 1 month of marriage |
10/66 |
Lt. William Pitzer* |
JFK autopsy photographer who described his duty as "horrifying experience" |
Gunshot rule suicided |
11/66 |
Jimmy Levens |
Fort Worth nightclub owner who hired Ruby employees |
Natural causes |
11/66 |
James Worrell Jr.* |
Saw man flee rear of Texas School Book Depository |
Motor accident |
1966 |
Clarence Oliver |
Dist. Atty. Investigator who worked Ruby case |
Unknown |
12/66 |
Hank Suydam |
Life magazine official in charge of JFK stories |
Heart attack |
1967 |
Leonard Pullin |
Civilian Navy employee who helped film "Last Two Days" about assassination |
One-car crash |
1/67 |
Jack Ruby* |
Oswald's slayer |
Lung cancer (he told family he was injected with cancer cells) |
2/67 |
Harold Russell* |
Saw escape of Tippit killer |
killed by cop in bar brawl |
2/67 |
David Ferrie* |
Acquaintance of Oswald, Garrison suspect and employee of Guy Banister |
Blow to neck (ruled accidental) |
2/67 |
Eladio Del Valle* |
Anti-Castro Cuban associate of David Ferrie being sought by Garrison |
Gunshot wound, a wound to head |
3/67 |
Dr. Mary Sherman* |
Ferrie associate working on cancer research |
Died in fire (possibly shot) |
1/68 |
A. D. Bowie |
Asst. Dallas District Attorney prosecuting Ruby |
Cancer |
4/68 |
Hiram Ingram |
Dallas Deputy Sheriff, close friend to Roger Craig |
Sudden cancer |
5/68 |
Dr. Nicholas Chetta |
New Orleans coroner who on death of Ferrie |
Heart attack |
8/68 |
Philip Geraci* |
Friend of Perry Russo, told of Oswald/Shaw conversation |
Electrocution |
1/69 |
Henry Delaune* |
Brother-in-law to coroner Chetta |
Murdered |
1/69 |
E.R. Walthers* |
Dallas Deputy Sheriff who was involved in Depository search, claimed to have found .45-cal. slug |
Shot by felon |
1969 |
Charles Mentesana |
Filmed rifle other than Mannlicher-Carcano being taken from Depository |
Heart attack |
4/69 |
Mary Bledsoe |
Neighbor to Oswald, also knew David Ferrie |
Natural causes |
4/69 |
John Crawford* |
Close friend to both Ruby and Wesley Frazier, who gave ride to Oswald on 11/22/63 |
Crash of private plane |
7/69 |
Rev. Clyde Johnson* |
Scheduled to testify about Clay Shaw/Oswald connection |
Fatally shot |
1970 |
George McGann* |
Underworld figure connected to Ruby friends, wife, Beverly, took film in Dealey Plaza |
Murdered |
1/70 |
Darrell W. Garner |
Arrested for shooting Warren Reynolds, released after alibi from Betty MacDonald |
Drug overdose |
8/70 |
Bill Decker |
Dallas Sheriff who saw bullet hit street in front of JFK |
Natural causes |
8/70 |
Abraham Zapruder |
Took famous film of JFK assassination |
Natural causes |
12/70 |
Salvatore Granello* |
Mobster linked to both Hoffa,Trafficante, and Castro assassination plots |
Murdered |
1971 |
James Plumeri* |
Mobster tied to mob-CIA assassination plots |
Murdered |
3/71 |
Clayton Fowler |
Ruby's chief defense attorney |
Uknown |
4/71 |
Gen. Charles Cabell* |
CIA deputy director connected to anti-Castro Cubans |
Collapsed and died afterphysical at Fort Myers |
1972 |
Hale Boggs* |
House Majority Leader, member of Warren Commission who began to publicly express doubts about findings |
Disappeared on Alaskan plane flight |
5/72 |
J. Edgar Hoover* |
FBI director who pushed "lone assassin" theory in JFK assassination |
Heart attack (no autopsy) |
9/73 |
Thomas E. Davis* |
Gunrunner connected to both Ruby and CIA |
Electrocuted trying to steal wire |
2/74 |
J.A. Milteer* |
Miami right-winger who predicted JFK's death and capture of scapegoat |
Heater explosion |
1974 |
Dave Yaras* |
Close friend to both Hoffa and Jack Ruby |
Murdered |
7/74 |
Earl Warren |
Chief Justice who reluctantly chaired Warren Commission |
Heart failure |
8/74 |
Clay Shaw* |
Prime suspect in Garrison case, reportedly a CIA contact with Ferrie and E. Howard Hunt |
Possible cancer |
1974 |
Earle Cabell |
Mayor of Dallas on 11/22/63, whose brother, Gen. Charles Cabell was fired from CIA by JFK |
Natural causes |
6/75 |
Sam Giancana* |
Chicago Mafia boss slated to tell about CIA-mob death plots to Senate Committee |
Murdered |
7/75 |
Clyde Tolson |
J. Edgar Hoover's assistant and roommate |
Natural causes |
1975 |
Allen Sweatt |
Dallas Deputy Sheriff involved in investigation |
Natural causes |
12/75 |
Gen. Earle Wheeler |
Contact between JFK and CIA |
Unknown |
1976 |
Ralph Paul |
Ruby's business partner connected with crime figures |
Heart attack |
4/76 |
James Chaney |
Dallas motorcycle officer riding to JFK's right rear who said JFK "struck in the face" with bullet |
Heart attack |
4/76 |
Dr. Charles Gregory |
Governor John Connally's physician |
Heart attack |
6/76 |
William Harvey* |
CIA coordinator for CIA-mob assassination plans against Castro |
Complications from heart surgery |
7/76 |
John Roselli* |
Mobster who testified to Senate Committee and was to appear again |
Stabbed and stuffed in metal drum |
Date |
Name |
Connection with case |
Cause of Death |
1/77 |
William Pawley* |
Former Brazilian Ambassador connected to Anti-Castro Cubans, crime figures |
Gunshot ruled suicide |
3/77 |
George DeMohrenschildt* |
Close friend to both Oswald and Bouvier family (Jackie Kennedy's parents), CIA contract agent |
Gunshot wound ruled suicide |
3/77 |
Carlos Prio Soccaras* |
Former Cuban President, money man for anti-Castro Cubans |
Gunshot wound ruled suicide |
3/77 |
Paul Raigorodsky |
Business friend of George DeMohrenschildt and wealthy oilmen |
Natural causes |
5/77 |
Lou Staples* |
Dallas radio Talk Show host who told friends he would break assassination case |
Gunshot to head,ruled suicide |
6/77 |
Louis Nichols |
Former No. 3 man in FBI, worked on JFK investigation |
Heart attack |
8/77 |
Alan Belmont |
FBI official who testified to Warren Commission |
"Long illness" |
8/77 |
James Cadigan |
FBI document expert who testified to Warren Commission |
Fall in home |
8/77 |
Joseph C. Ayres* |
Chief steward on JFK's Air Force One |
Shooting accident |
8/77 |
Francis G. Powers* |
U-2 pilot downed over Russia in 1960 |
Helicopter crash (He reportedly ran out of fuel) |
9/77 |
Kenneth O'Donnell |
JFK's closest aide |
Natural causes |
10/77 |
Donald Kaylor |
FBI fingerprint chemist |
Heart attack |
10/77 |
J.M. English |
Former head of FBI Forensic Sciences Laboratory |
Heart attack |
11/77 |
William Sullivan* |
Former No. 3 man in FBI, headed Division 5, counter- espionage and domestic intelligence |
Hunting accident |
1978 |
C.L. "Lummie" Lewis |
Dallas Deputy Sheriff who arrested Mafia man Braden in Dealey Plaza |
Natural causes |
9/78 |
Garland Slack |
Man who said Oswald fired at his target at rifle range |
Unknown |
1/79 |
Billy Lovelady |
Depository employee said to be the man in the doorway in AP photograph |
Complications from heart attack |
6/80 |
Jesse Curry |
Dallas Police Chief at time of assassination |
Heart attack |
6/80 |
Dr. John Holbrook |
Psychiatrist who testified Ruby was not insane |
Heart attack but pills, notes found |
1/81 |
Marguerite Oswald |
Mother of accused assassin |
Cancer |
10/81 |
Frank Watts |
Chief felony prosecutor for Dallas D.A. |
Natural causes |
1/82 |
Peter Gregory |
Original translator for Marina Oswald and Secret Service |
Natural causes |
5/82 |
Dr. James Weston |
Pathologist allowed to see JFK autopsy material for HSCA |
Died while jogging, ruled natural causes |
8/82 |
Will H. Griffin |
FBI agent who reportedly said Oswald was "definitely" an FBI informant |
Cancer |
10/82 |
W. Marvin Gheesling |
FBI official who helped supervise JFK investigation |
"Long illness" |
3/84 |
Roy Kellerman |
Secret Service agent in charge of JFK limousine |
Unknown |