Lee Oswald The Cop Killer

[Walt Cakebread]

The thread OP is loaded with errors, distortions, and omissions. If you want to read a detailed response to the claim that Oswald shot Tippit, please read the following article:

Did Oswald Shoot Tippit? A Review of Dale Myers' Book With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit"
https://miketgriffith.com/files/malice.htm

What follows is part of my chapter on the Tippit shooting in my book Hasty Judgment (which is available for free online):

* The witness with the best view of the shooting, Domingo Benavides, at first said he could not identify the killer, and, incredibly, Benavides was not taken to a police lineup. Weeks later, Benavides's brother was shot--in mistake for him, according to Benavides and his father-in-law. When Benavides testified before the Warren Commission, he would only say that a picture of Oswald "bore a resemblance" to Tippit's killer, and he seemed to identify a dark jacket as the one the assailant had worn, whereas the Commission claimed the killer wore a light gray jacket. Only years later did Benavides make a positive identification of Oswald as the gunman. Today, Benavides is hesitant to talk about the case, in part because he believes federal agents are monitoring his phone conversations.

* Two witnesses to the Tippit slaying described the killer in terms that did not resemble Oswald at all.

* Two other witnesses said Oswald entered the Texas Theater just a few minutes after 1:00 P.M., and that he remained in the theater until he was arrested there about an hour later. But Tippit was killed at no later than 1:12, and probably between 1:06 and 1:10.

* Officer J. M. Poe marked two of the empty shells found at the crime scene with his initials, a standard chain-of-evidence procedure, but the shells produced by the FBI and the Dallas police as evidence of Oswald's guilt do not have Poe's markings on them. Officer Poe initially said he was certain he had marked the shells. Later, testifying before the Warren Commission, Poe did not sound quite as certain, though even then he said he believed he had marked the shells.

* Posner assumes that Tippit approached his assailant from behind, meaning that the killer was walking east on Tenth Street. However, the available evidence strongly indicates the killer was walking west. This is a crucial point because if the killer was in fact walking west, or toward Tippit, then it could not have been Oswald (unless someone drove Oswald to the scene and then, for some inexplicable reason, Oswald started walking back toward the direction of his rooming house). Henry Hurt explains,

* The first two reports on the Tippit slaying to go out over the radio said Tippit's killer had used an automatic pistol, not a revolver. The first report originated with Dallas policeman H. W. Summers, who said he had an "eyeball witness to the getaway man" and that the man was "apparently armed with a .32, dark finish, automatic pistol." The second report came from Sergeant Gerald Hill, who was one of the first officers to arrive at the crime scene. After examining a shell found nearby, Hill said the casing indicated the suspect had used an automatic pistol (17:273, citing CE 1974:78). As anyone familiar with firearms knows, it's very hard to mistake a revolver shell for an automatic shell. There is an obvious difference between the two. I quote leading criminalist and forensic expert Larry Ragle:

* Helen Markham, Posner's star witness against Oswald in the Tippit shooting, gave such wildly conflicting and confused testimony that one Warren Commission staffer called her an "utter screwball." Although by all accounts (including Posner's) Tippit died instantly, Mrs. Markham said she conversed with him after he was shot. She told attorney Mark Lane that she conversed with the dead Tippit for twenty minutes. Additionally, Mrs. Markham gave conflicting descriptions of the killer. (https://miketgriffith.com/files/hastyjudgmentbook.pdf)

An excellent succinct presentation Mr Griffith..... Which should be sufficient to convince any reasonable and intelligent person that Lee Oswald was NOT near 10th and Patton at the time Officer Tippit came in second in a quick draw contest.

[Jerry Freeman]

Please show your work which made you determine that Oswald could not have hit Tippit with gun shots from across the hood.

Here is the generally accepted story---

Officer J.D. Tippit was shot and killed while questioning the assassin of President John F. Kennedy at Tenth and Patton Streets.

At approximately 1:14 pm, 45 minutes after President Kennedy was shot, Officer Tippit stopped the suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was on foot and fit the general description of the assassin that was being broadcast by the Dallas police radio.

After being summoned by Officer Tippit, Oswald came over to the passenger side of the patrol car where they spoke through an open window. After a brief conversation, Officer Tippit got out of his car and as he was walking toward the front of his patrol car, Oswald suddenly shot him three times at point blank range with a .38 caliber revolver. After Officer Tippit fell, he was shot in the head by Oswald, which proved to be the fatal shot.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/13338-officer-j-d-tippit

Presents the questions...Over the hood? Why wouldn't Tippit have even tried to duck? Over the hood of a patrol car...is that really point blank? Point blank is more like how the LA county sheriff's deputies were shot this week.
How can someone shoot someone who has fallen... in the head ...over the hood of a car?

So Sorry!....   Wish I could educate a door knob....... But I recognize that some things are impossible.

Can't help but notice that you came back to try once more anyway.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Here is an excellent lecture by Dr. Don Thomas on the Tippit shooting and on some of the evidence that the WC ignored about the event--it's only 34 minutes long:

"The Tippit Murder: Rosetta Stone to the Warren Commission Cover-Up"

[Walt Cakebread]

Here is an excellent lecture by Dr. Don Thomas on the Tippit shooting and on some of the evidence that the WC ignored about the event--it's only 34 minutes long:

"The Tippit Murder: Rosetta Stone to the Warren Commission Cover-Up"

What a horrible presentation!.....  It's filled with non facts, WAG's and simply BS.......

[Michael T. Griffith]

All this talk about the Tippit shooting prompted me to revise and expand my article on the subject, which is my long reply to Dale Myers' book With Malice. Since I added pictures to the article, I converted it to PDF format. Here's the new link:

https://miketgriffith.com/files/malice.pdf

[Bill Chapman]

$13 in pocket = he didn't think he would get away = no escape plan = survival instinct kicks in = hey, why not give it a shot = bumps into dumb & dumber downstairs = buh-bye suckers = still famous after all these years = smirk
 

[Michael T. Griffith]

$13 in pocket = no escape plan = he didn't think he would get away = survival instinct kicks in = hey, why not give it a shot = bumps into dumb & dumber downstairs = buh, bye suckers = still famous after all these years = smirk

Do you even pause to consider the logic of your statements before you make them?

If he didn't think he would get away, why would he have taken the time to hide the rifle so carefully? (As Dr. Wrone notes, whoever hid the rifle had to climb over a wall of boxes to get to the spot where the rifle was hidden.)

This is not to mention that none of the people who were near or on the stairs when Oswald would have had to come flying down them saw or heard anyone on the stairs. Roy Truly was running well ahead of Baker, and he didn't see Oswald on the stairs or near the vestibule door.

Moving to the Tippit scene, the first and firm reports of the gun used said it was an automatic, based on the shells found at the scene, and it's very easy to distinguish between automatic shells and revolver shells. The fingerprints that Tippit's killer left near his window turned out *not* to be Oswald's. Two witnesses independently put Oswald at the Texas Theater during the Tippit shooting. The weight of the evidence clearly shows that Tippit was shot no later than 1:10, probably at 1:09, just after Tippit signaled the dispatcher that he was getting out of his car, but Oswald, even if he had speed walked, could not have arrived at the scene until 1:14 at the absolute earliest.

I discuss these and other facts in my revised and expanded article on the Tippit shooting:

https://miketgriffith.com/files/malice.pdf

[John Iacoletti]

Weeks later, Benavides's brother was shot--in mistake for him, according to Benavides and his father-in-law.

Edward Benavides was shot in February 1965.