https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Allen_Hale#Early_life
Early life[edit]
Robert Allan Hale was the son of Virginia and I. B. Hale.[1] He had a twin brother, Billy, and younger brother, Tommy.[1] He grew up in Fort Worth, Texas and attended Arlington Heights High School.[1]
As an eighteen-year-old senior, Hale eloped in Ardmore, Oklahoma with 16-year-old Kathleen "K.K." Connally, the daughter of future Texas governor John Connally.[1][2] On March 16, 1959, the couple were married in Ardmore prior to moving into an apartment in Tallahassee, Florida.[1][2][3] Hale worked for a boat company earning $75 per week.[2][3] The couple had been married only 44 days when Kathleen died after a 20-gauge shotgun discharged behind her right ear on April 28, 1959.[1][2] Hale spent that night in jail;[1] police reported that he was held in "protective custody" pending the ruling of a coroner's jury.[3]
On April 29, Hale testified that Kathleen had left their apartment after an argument on the evening of April 27 and did not return until noon the following day.[3] According to Hale, he spent the night looking for her and returned to find her sitting on a couch holding the gun.[2][3] He said that his wife was about to commit suicide and that the gun discharged when he lunged at it.[2][3]Both fathers testified at the inquest; John Connally stated that his daughter was pregnant and had been despondent over the move to Florida.[3] After deliberating for 45 minutes, Hale was cleared of responsibility for Kathleen's death when the jury ruled it to be an accident.[1][2][3] ....
