Johnny Brewer & Oswald Arresting Police Officer McDonald

[Duncan MacRae]

Johnny Brewer & Oswald Arresting Police Officer McDonald

[John Corbett]

Johnny Brewer & Oswald Arresting Police Officer McDonald

If not for Johnny Brewer's alertness and willingness to get involved, Oswald would have gotten inside the Texas Theater unnoticed, sat through the double feature, and left with the crowd after dark, by which time the trail would have gone cold. Oswald might well have eluded capture for days and possibly weeks. Eventually he would have been captured or killed in a shootout but there's no telling whether he would have killed more people before being brought to justice. Johnny Brewer is one of the unsung heroes of the JFKA.