Tippit Shooting, 1:15

[Jerry Freeman]

I was driving XXXX north on Denver and stopped at 10th St. when I first saw the squad car and men walking on the sidewalk near the squad car. .................. Both the squad car and this young white male were coming in my direction(East on 10th Street). At the time I was just approaching the squad car, I noticed this young white male with both hands in the pockets of his zippered jacket leaning over the passenger side of the squad car. This young white male was looking into the squad car from the passenger side
 I heard three shots in rapid (illegible)I went right through the intersection, stopped my car and turned to look back. I then saw the officer lying on the street and saw this young white man standing near the front of the squad car. Next. this man with a gun in his hand ran toward the back of the squad car, but instead of running away he stepped into the street and shot the police officer who was lying in the street.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/tatum.htm
If accurate ...this statement demonstrates that the killer went entirely out of his way to execute the cop who was already down and apparently sufficiently damaged. 
Who were these men that were walking on the sidewalk?

[Bill Chapman]

Scully complaining about posters who fill this forum up with unreadable nonsense is like Willie Wonka lecturing on childhood tooth decay.

Good one

[Richard Smith]

Incredibly weak conjecture. Maybe this and perhaps that. Troll on

LOL.  What a tool.  This is conjecture but Walt's subjective opinion as to what Oswald would or wouldn't have done is not? 

[John Iacoletti]

After Roger was humiliated, I reckon that type of personality would have have spitefully created a dozen more aliases. Just saying!

Says “John Mytton” to “Richard Smith”.

[John Iacoletti]

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/tatum.htm
If accurate ...this statement demonstrates that the killer went entirely out of his way to execute the cop who was already down and apparently sufficiently damaged. 
Who were these men that were walking on the sidewalk?

There’s no good reason to believe that Jack Tatum was actually there.

[Jerry Freeman]

There’s no good reason to believe that Jack Tatum was actually there.

Rob Caprio had something about that but his posts are gone. I tried to revive something here...
https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,2294.new.html#new

[Walt Cakebread]

My guess is that he was just trying to make sure that Tippit was not going to recover and identify him later on. Picking up Tippit’s gun would have potentially incriminated him (in case he got caught with it, or left a finger print on it).

Well at least you recognize that the shooting of Tippit was an EXECUTION.......  I believe it was premeditated.   It does not appear to be the act of a fleeing fugitive.

There can be no doubt that the bullet in the brain was intended to ensure that Tippit was dead.....  A fleeing fugitive probably wouldn't have wasted time in clearing out of the area as soon as Tippit was down.   The FACT is the killer did NOT hastily dash away from the scene, indicates that he intended to execute Tippit.