Tippit's wife views car tribute to officer slain by Oswald

[struggle4progress]

12:00 AM CST on Saturday, November 21, 2009
By DAVID FLICK / The Dallas Morning News
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... "I have mixed feelings," she said ...

"It's beautiful, and it's an honor that they would do this," Marie Tippit, 81, said at an informal reception at DPA headquarters Friday ...

"I made him a tuna sandwich, and then he went back to work and drove away," she said. "And that's the last time I saw him."

After 46 years, she said, she is used to recounting the events of that day. But the memories still hurt ...

http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/DN-tippitcar_21met.ART.State.Edition1.4bb2cae.html

[ngant17]

1. no proof that Oswald was the killer

and if you look at the lousy record of the Dallas PD wrt to the arrest and interrogation of LHO, it pretty much shows complicity of DPD in the assassination. LHO's civil rights were violated from the very moment he was arrested by Dallas police. He was prevented access to legal representation, Oswald was held incommunicado to prevent him from getting a lawyer easily, then he was gunned down right in the police basement before he could exonerate himself in a court.

See this Gil Jesus/Black Op radio link for an excellent critique on DPD wrt Oswald and the JFK assassination:

<http://www.blackopradio.com/black446a.ram>

[Daveparts still]

2. Yes, but

Dallas police had shell casings ejected from the killers gun. Oswald was carrying a revolver that wouldn't eject shell casings and the nitrate tests showed that Oswald hadn't fired a weapon that day.

My favorite. Oswald ran past the ticket window of the Texas theater. The clerk notified the manager who called the police. The manager then picked Oswald out of the crowd without ever seeing him come in.

[Crabby Appleton]

5. The theater manager didn't ID Oswald, Johnny C. Brewer

the manager of the Hardy's shoe store down the street that had followed Oswald to the Texas Theater was the person that pointed out Oswald to DPD officers McDonald, Hutson, Hawkins, and Walker.

[tonysam]

3. Bullshit. There were a SLEW of WITNESSES to the Tippit killing

But of course if Oswald killed Tippit, then he would have had to have killed JFK and wounded Governor Connolly. Then these lies perpetrated by the cottage industry called the JFK assassination conspiracy would fade into dust, which they should have been all the time.

[bertman]

4. Bullshit! The witnesses to the Tippit killing described a man who did not look like Oswald.

You need to do some reading, tonysam. Your post is a FAIL.

[Crabby Appleton]

6. And bullshit to you

most of what you read about this subject is untrue

[MinM]

7. Acquilla Clemons

Dorothy Kilgallen ran an interview with Acquilla Clemons...

On Sept. 25, 1964, Kilgallen ran an interview with Acquilla Clemons, one of the witnesses to the shooting of Officer Tippit whom the Warren Commission never questioned. Clemons told Kilgallen that she saw two men running from the scene, neither of whom fit Oswald's description...

Acquilla Clemons

Acquilla Clemons lived on the north side of Tenth Street in Dallas. On 22nd November, 1963, Clemons was sitting on the porch of her house when she saw Officer J. D. Tippit killed.

Afterwards she claimed that there were two men involved in the attack on Tippit. She later testified that the gunman was a "short guy and kind of heavy". The other man was tall and thin in khaki trousers and a white shirt. The Dallas Police warned her not to repeat this story to others or "she might get hurt".

Clemons was not called to give evidence to the Warren Commission...

http://www.ctka.net/pr198-jfk.html

[struggle4progress]

8. Oswald was arrested at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, less than an hour after the

Tippit shooting, following a tip from a shoe salesman who saw him enter the Theatre without paying. At the time, he was employed at the Texas School Book Depository, where he had been seen a bit more than an hour before the Tippit shooting. When he was identified after arrest on suspicion of the Tippit shooting, his name came up as an employee missing from the Depository. His rooming house on Beckley was close enough to the Depository for him to have gotten there reasonably quickly, and it wasn't that far from the site of the Tippit shooting or the Texas Theatre

I don't know for a certainty that Oswald shot Tippit but he seems to have been unaccountably without a ticket in the Texas Theatre a few blocks away from the site of the Tippit murder at a time when he had been noticed as missing from his job at the Depository; he had apparently been acting strangely in the shoe store a few minutes earlier, which is why the clerk called the police. The story is consistent, and after nearly fifty years we probably won't get any more credible interpretation