Texas Theatre: site of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest

The Texas Theatre in the Oak Cliff neighborhood is the location where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested by police on November 22, 1963, after he allegedly left the Texas School Book Depository. Contemporary news reports and police records document that theater staff recognized and reported a suspicious patron, leading to Oswald's apprehension in the lobby. The building still stands as a historic neighborhood movie theater and is often mentioned in accounts of the assassination's immediate aftermath. The arrest there links the theater directly to one of the most widely discussed events in U.S. history.