...TC L.C. Graves, 76, the Dallas police detective who wrestled the gun away from Jack Ruby after Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, died Saturday of heart failure in Kaufman, Texas. He was one of three Dallas officers escorting Oswald, charged with assassinating President Kennedy, from the city to the county jail Nov. 24, 1963. In the moment after Ruby fired one shot at Oswald in the basement of Dallas City Hall, Mr. Graves grabbed the revolver and Ruby's wrist, preventing a second shot from being fired.
Maurice H. Halperin, 88, an exiled American scholar and former intelligence official whose books chronicled the career of Fidel Castro, died of a stroke Friday at a hospital near Vancouver, British Columbia, where he had lived since 1968. He left the United States in the 1950s after the FBI accused him of being a Communist spy. He studied and taught for 15 years in Mexico City, Moscow and Havana, before he became disillusioned with the Soviet Union and took a position at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Dr. Robert L. Kaiser, 64, who researched malaria and other tropical diseases, died Thursday at his home in Atlanta. For 30 years, he led efforts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with state and local health departments to control parasitic diseases.