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Last officer working when JFK killed retires
01:58 PM CDT on Monday, July 28, 2008
DALLAS -- The last remaining police officer who was on the Dallas force when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated is retiring.
Sgt. Graham Pierce was retiring Monday after 45 years on the department. Pierce wasn’t involved in arrests, crowd control or anything else related to Kennedy’s slaying on Nov. 22, 1963, because as a rookie working the graveyard shift he was fast asleep at the time.
“His only claim to fame is being on the department in ‘63,” Dallas Police Department spokesman Kevin Janse said.
Pierce’s retirement comes a week after the death of Paul Bentley, who helped arrest Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater. The ex-officer died at his Dallas home of natural causes.
Kennedy was shot as his motorcade wound through Dallas. He was the youngest man elected president and the was the youngest to die.
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