JESSE CURRY, Dallas police chief at the time of the assassination. Worked briefly for a private detective agency after retiring in 1966, then managed security for a bank. He wrote a 133-page book, "Retired Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry Reveals his Personal Assassination File." After he died in June 1980, his files were traded to Arlington collector Larry Howard for a Japanese gun worth $4,000.
JIM GARRISON, the former New Orleans district attorney who pursued a theory that the CIA had President Kennedy killed to keep the United States in Vietnam. Died in November 1992 at 70. The pistol-packing prosecutor's conspiracy theory, while losing in court, inspired director Oliver Stone's film "JFK."L.C. GRAVES, 74, the Dallas homicide detective who wrestled away Oswald killer Jack Ruby's gun after the strip club owner shot Oswald. Retired from the police force in 1970. After working 10 years for Republic National Bank, he now lives in retirement in the small Kaufman County community of Oak Grove.
JOHN CONNALLY, who as Texas governor rode in the seat in front of JFK when the president was shot. Went on to serve two more terms in the state capital of Austin and was appointed treasury secretary by President Nixon. One book theorized that Oswald was targeting Connally, who had been Navy secretary in the early 1960s when Oswald sought help changing the status of his Marine discharge. Connally died of a lung ailment June 15 at 76.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, who as vice president succeeded JFK after the assassination. He went on to win a landslide victory in 1964 and got important civil-rights legislation passed but did not seek re-election when his popularity dropped over the Vietnam War. He died Jan. 22, 1973, at 64.
SARAH T. HUGHES, the U.S. district judge who swore in Johnson as president aboard Air Force One. Died April 23, 1985, at 88.
ROY KELLERMAN, the Secret Service agent in charge of JFK's limousine. Died in March 1984. The 1961 Lincoln stretch limo, which was not armored until after the assassination, was returned to the Ford Motor Co. when the White House's lease expired in 1978 and then donated to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich.
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS, who rode next to her husband when he was mortally wounded. Was married in 1968 to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis, who died in 1975. She is now an editor at the New York publishing house Doubleday.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD, the man accused of assassinating JFK. Was gunned down on live television by Dallas strip club owner Jack Ruby on Nov. 24, 1963. The 24-year-old was buried in Fort Worth's Rose Hill Cemetery, plot 259. His remains were exhumed in 1981 by his widow Marina to put to rest speculation that a Soviet spy had been placed in the grave.
MARINA OSWALD PORTER, 52, the accused assassin's Soviet-born widow. Married Dallas carpenter Kenneth Jess Porter in 1965. They moved to Rockwall, where they had a son, Mark, and raised her two daughters by Oswald, June and Rachel, whom Porter adopted.
MARGUERITE OSWALD, mother of the accused assassin. Died in January 1981. She left no will, but her 30 boxes of files were given to TCU's Mary Couts Burnett Library.
MALCOLM PERRY, 62, the main surgeon who worked to revive JFK at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Is chief of vascular surgery at Texas Tech University Medical School, Lubbock.
JACK RUBY, seen by millions shooting accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on television. Was sentenced to death but was granted a new trial on appeal because of prejudicial pre-trial publicity. Died of cancer on Jan. 2, 1967, before his trial, at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, where JFK was pronounced dead.
CLAY SHAW, the New Orleans businessman accused of conspiring to assassinate JFK. Was acquitted in a 1969 trial prosecuted by the late New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Shaw died Aug. 14, 1974.
HENRY WADE, the powerful district attorney of Dallas County who had the assassination investigation taken away from him by the federal government. Retired Dec. 31, 1986.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER, the Dallas dress manufacturer and amateur photographer who filmed JFK's motorcade when the fatal shots were fired. Died in 1970. His heirs control the film's rights.