(July 24, 2008)—A burial service is scheduled Thursday for a Dallas police detective who helped arrest presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater.

Detective Paul Bentley died Monday of natural causes in his Dallas home.

He was 87.

Bentley worked for the Dallas Police Department for 21 years, starting as a patrol officer and retiring as a detective five years after the assassination of President Kennedy.

He played a supporting role on Nov. 22, 1963, originally responding to Oswald's fatal shooting of Dallas police Officer J.D. Tippit.

Bentley and other officers tracked Oswald to the Texas Theater, arresting the assassin after a brief scuffle.

In a well-known photograph taken just after the arrest, Bentley is shown wearing a suit with his hair slicked back and a cigar in his mouth, escorting Oswald out of the theater.

Oswald appears to have a cut on his forehead, which Bentley said came from his Masonic ring.

Besides the arrest, Bentley had another connection to Oswald.

Bentley's brother-in-law was L.C. Graves, who died in 1995, was one of the officers who was escorting Oswald when the alleged killer was shot to death by Jack Ruby.

Graves can be seen to Oswald's left in a famous photograph of the shooting.

The burial service is at 10 a.m. Thursday with a memorial service to follow.