Ex-cop who helped catch Oswald dies

DALLAS, July 24 (UPI) -- Retired Dallas police detective Paul Bentley, who helped capture Lee Harvey Oswald after U.S. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination, has died.

Bentley, who died of an apparent heart atack Monday at his home in Dallas, was 87.

A member of the Dallas Police Department for 21 years, Bentley earned early attention as a polygraph pioneer, introducing locally the wonders of the new technology and becoming a favorite speaker on the subject.

All that changed on Nov. 22, 1963, the Dallas Morning News said Thursday, when Bentley pulled a ligament in his ankle diving across rows of seats at the Texas Theater to subdue Oswald, the assumed killer of the president.

For the rest of his life, that's what everyone wanted to hear about. The polygraph now was just a sidebar.

A native of Dallas, Bentley is survived by his wife Mozelle, a son James, a grandson and a sister.

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