Within hours of President John F Kennedy’s assassination, most Americans were familiar with the name Lee Harvey Oswald. Certain images of him — posing with a rifle, recoiling from Jack Ruby’s gun — have been ingrained in memory. Yet he remains an enigma.

POLICE in Texas, have honoured a man whose “keen observation skills and strong sense of civic duty” led them to Lee Harvey Oswald, who had crept into the back of a cinema to hide shortly after the assassination of president John F Kennedy.