[1] Beers was best known for his widely distributed photograph capturing Jack Ruby lunging toward Lee Harvey Oswald a split-second before firing his fatal shot on November 24, 1963.

[6][1] During his career, he captured many dramatic photographs, including one of football player Kyle Rote of Southern Methodist University smiling as he headed for a touchdown through the Notre Dame defensive line, which ran as a full-page picture in the Morning News in 1949.

[1] On November 22, 1963, moments before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Beers took a sweep shot with a movie camera of people looking down at the presidential motorcade in the surrounding buildings, including the Texas School Book Depository.

[9] Beers' rival at The Dallas Times Herald, Robert H. Jackson, took a similar photo, but approximately six-tenths of a second later, as Oswald screams in pain.

[4] A few months after his death, FBI agents asked The Dallas Morning News for the negatives of three photographs taken by Beers shortly after Oswald's murder.