Man who tracked JFK killer Oswald honoured

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.

Police chief David Brown presented Johnny Brewer with the Citizen’s Certificate of Merit and praised his selfless act and “exemplary conduct” 48 years ago during a ceremony at the Texas Theatre — the same place Oswald was captured about 80 minutes after JFK was killed on November 22, 1963.

“I’m just so overwhelmed,” Brewer, 70, said after receiving the award and watching a video of himself, then 22, recounting the events.