A Record from Mary's Database
Record:
SWAIN, RICHARD E. (LT.)
Sources:
Mary's
Comments:
Comments:
Was with Dallas Police Department 29 years before retiring as a Lieutenant. He was in basement when Ruby shot Oswald. Swain remarried following his first wife's death and lived in Red Oak until he was placed in a nursing home. He died March 16, 1995. Survived by wife, Claudia; daughter and son-in-law, Donna and Mike Thornhill and son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Richard E. Swain, III, and wife, Julia; sister and brother-in-law, Doris and Paul Sparkman; grandchildren: Colleen and Steve Swain and Jonathan and Chris Thornhill.