Here, John addresses a very important issue: the type of gun that was used in the Tippit murder. It's very popular in the conspiracy community to claim that a semi-automatic weapon was used- hence the ejected shells that were found. However, John rejects that claim. He insists that it was, indeed, a pistol because of the location where the shells were found. Hear him out. He also cites two witnesses who claim that they saw the shooter shake shells out of a revolver.
THE PRE-ARRANGED MURDER OF OFFICER J.D. TIPPIT
The killing of (HARVEY) Oswald was the number one priority for the planners. This posed a serious problem because these people were not "on the ground" in Dallas to carry out their objective and had to depend on others. Their worst nightmare would be if Oswald was arrested and began revealing details of his work as a spy, his false defection to the USSR, the “Oswald Project”, his undercover work for the FBI, and his activities leading up to the assassination. If Oswald talked he could not only demonstrate his innocence, but implicate others, and the public would learn what the coup d'état that killed JFK was all about. After JFK was killed, eliminating Oswald as quickly as possible became their most urgent priority and their back-up plan, after failing to eliminate HARVEY on the bus, was the murder of a Dallas police officer.
As the evidence that follows will show, the murder of Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit was pre-arranged and involved LEE Oswald and at least one high-ranking Dallas Police officer. Tippit was shot and killed at 10th & Patton by LEE Oswald, who then hurried to the Texas Theater and hid in the balcony. A wallet that contained identification for both Lee Harvey Oswald and Alek Hidell suddenly appeared in the hands of a Dallas Police Captain (Westbrook) at the scene of the murder, and then soon disappeared and was never seen again. This wallet was carried to the scene by Dallas Police Captain W.R. Westbrook, and is proof that Westbrook, and other co-conspirators, had foreknowledge of Tippit's pre-arranged murder.
Oswald was in his small room (at right) changing his pants and probably heard Tippit as he honked the horn in his patrol car before driving around the corner of Beckley and Zang (circa 1:03). Out of the thousands of houses in Oak Cliff, why would a police car slowly drive past Oswald's rooming house and honk the horn only minutes after he (Oswald) arrived?
Oswald left the rooming house wearing the dark brown long-sleeve shirt and white t-shirt, and was last seen by his landlady standing at the corner of Beckley & Zang (circa 1:03-1:04 PM). HARVEY Oswald probably got into Tippit's car and, two or three minutes later, arrived in the alley behind the Texas Theater at 231 W. Jefferson (1.2 miles-1:05-1:07 PM). He then walked, sight unseen, from the alley through the narrow passageway adjacent to the theater, and then emerged on Jefferson Blvd only a few yards from theater cashier Julia Postal (see photo below).
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J.D. Tippit at the Gloco station
As Whaley drove south on Zang Blvd. his taxi passed by Officer J.D. Tippit, who was observed by 5 witnesses sitting in his patrol car at the GLOCO station (1502 N. Zang Blvd) watching traffic. Tippit knew both HARVEY and LEE and his assignment that day may have been to drive both young men to the Texas Theater. Whaley turned left on N. Beckley and stopped in the 700 block near Neeley Street about 12:54 PM. HARVEY Oswald got out of the taxi and began walking to his rooming house about three and a half blocks away. He arrived just before 1:00 PM and spent a few minutes changing his pants in his room.
Tippit, sitting in his patrol car at the GLOCO station, may have been waiting for Oswald to get off of McWatters bus across the street at the bus stop. But when the bus failed to arrive Tippit became alarmed, quickly left the GLOCO station, and began driving south on Lancaster. A minute or two later, at 12:54 PM, Tippit reported his position as Lancaster and 8th. He then turned right on Jefferson Blvd and drove two miles (3-4 minutes) to the Top Ten Record Store. Tippit parked his patrol car, hurriedly entered the store, and asked store clerk Louis Cortinas for permission to make a phone call. Tippit said nothing during the call, hung up the phone, hurried out to his car, and drove north across Jefferson Blvd. (circa 1:00 PM). A few minutes later it was most likely Tippit in his patrol car who drove slowly past HARVEY Oswald's rooming house at 1026 N. Beckley. If this black police car was not Tippit's then who's car was it?
Oswald was in his small room (at right) changing his pants and probably heard Tippit as he honked the horn in his patrol car before driving around the corner of Beckley and Zang (circa 1:03). Out of the thousands of houses in Oak Cliff, why would a police car slowly drive past Oswald's rooming house and honk the horn only minutes after he (Oswald) arrived?
Oswald left the rooming house wearing the dark brown long-sleeve shirt and white t-shirt, and was last seen by his landlady standing at the corner of Beckley & Zang (circa 1:03-1:04 PM). HARVEY Oswald probably got into Tippit's car and, two or three minutes later, arrived in the alley behind the Texas Theater at 231 W. Jefferson (1.2 miles-1:05-1:07 PM). He then walked, sight unseen, from the alley through the narrow passageway adjacent to the theater, and then emerged on Jefferson Blvd only a few yards from theater cashier Julia Postal (see photo below).
HARVEY Oswald, wearing a long-sleeve brown shirt, purchased a ticket from Julia Postal and walked into the theater (circa 1:07-1:08 PM). Concession attendant Butch Burroughs said that Oswald arrived at or soon before 1:07 PM. Less than two minutes after dropping HARVEY Oswald off at the theater Tippit arrived at 10th & Patton, .7 mile east of the theater (circa 1:08-1:09 PM).
BACK AT THE BOOK DEPOSITORY, LEE OSWALD LEAVES DEALEY PLAZA WEARING A WHITE T-SHIRT.
After shots were fired at President Kennedy, LEE Oswald walked through the office of the Book Depository and was seen by Mrs. Reid carrying a coke and wearing a white t-shirt. He then left the building and was given a pistol by Jack Ruby, as witnessed by three women from the Dal-Tex Bldg. LEE then walked west on the Elm Street extension in front of the TSBD and waited.At 12:40 PM a light colored Nash Rambler station wagon, with a chrome luggage rack, pulled over to the curb and stopped. Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig heard a shrill whistle, which attracted his attention, and watched as a young man wearing a white t-shirt walked over to the car and got in. Craig identified the man as (LEE) Harvey Oswald. Marvin Robinson was driving his Cadillac directly behind the Nash Rambler when it suddenly stopped. Robinson saw a white male hurry over to the car and get in. Robinson's employee, Roy Cooper, was following him in a different vehicle and also saw the man hurry over and get into the car. Both men told the FBI the man who got into the Nash Rambler was (LEE) Harvey Oswald, but neither man was interviewed by the WC. Helen Forrest saw the same man run toward the Nash Rambler and get in. She said, " If it wasn't Oswald, it was his identical twin." Helen Forrest was never interviewed by the WC nor was her statement published in the WC volumes. The Nash Rambler was last seen driving under the triple overpass with LEE Oswald, who may have been told by his handlers to meet DPD Officer JD Tippit at Ruby's apartment, or at his (LEE Oswald's) apartment at 507 E. 10th or somewhere along 10th St. After getting into the Nash Rambler, but before meeting up with Officer Tippit near 10th & Patton, LEE Oswald acquired a light colored medium-size jacket which he wore over his white t-shirt.
LEE Oswald on East 10th St. in Oak Cliff
About 1:03 PM LEE Oswald was seen by several witnesses in the Oak Cliff suburb of Dallas walking west near the corner of 10th St. & Marsalis--over a mile away from HARVEY Oswald's rooming house. LEE Oswald was only three blocks north of Jack Ruby's apartment (223 S. Ewing), where he had been seen the night before by a guest of Ruby's next door neighbor (Helen McIntosh). Four blocks from Ruby's apartment was a small, single story house at 511 E. 10th that was owned by attorney Dick Loomis, Sr., and his wife. Mrs. Loomis was a housewife and President of the Oak Cliff Fine Arts Club. She told FBI agents Griffin and Carter that a young couple, who were identical to LEE Harvey and Marina Oswald, lived next door in an apartment complex at 507 E. 10th (13 apartments) about one week before the assassination. She saw Marina and her infant child in front of her home and recalled that Marina had jet black hair. She said Marina wore very plain clothing and on one occasion wore a light blouse and plaid skirt and on another occasion a dark blouse and the same plaid skirt. She once saw a heavy-set man visit the apartment next door and presumed it was Ruby. FBI agent James Hosty, who never met Oswald face-to-face prior to November 22, 1963, told fellow FBI agent Carver Gayton that he left notes under Oswald's apartment door. But the Warren Commission reported that Oswald lived either at his rooming house (1026 N. Beckley) or at Ruth Paine's house in Irving, TX, neither of which was an apartment. Hosty could have left notes under the door at several of LEE Oswald's previous apartments including 507 E. 10th, 1106 Diceman Avenue, or an apartment in Oak Lawn that Ruby rented for Oswald (according to DPD informant T-1).
Mr. Clark worked as a barber at the 10th Street Barber Shop, 620 E. 10th, two blocks north of Jack Ruby's apartment. Mr. Clark may have been the first person to see Oswald walking west on 10th Street, four blocks east of 10th & Patton. FBI agent Carl Underhill reported, "On the morning of 11/22/63 (no time specified) Clark had seen a man whom he would bet his life on was Oswald passing the shop in a great hurry and had commented on same to a customer in the chair." Lee Oswald walked past the Town and Country Cafe at 604 E l0th, crossed Marsalis Avenue, and continued walking west on l0th. William Lawrence Smith, working on a project three blocks west of 10th & Patton, began walking east toward the Town and Country Cafe (604 E 10th) for lunch shortly after 1:00 PM. Smith said that he, "felt sure that the man who walked by him going west on 10th St. was LEE Harvey Oswald" (interview of Smith by SA Brookhart 1/13/64). Jimmy Burt, 505 E. 10th, was across the street from the construction site where Smith was working and watched the same man as he continued walking west. Burt described the man (LEE Oswald) as a white male, approximately 5'8", wearing a light short jacket (interview of Burt by SA Christianson and Acklin 12/16/63). William Arthur Smith was with Burt at the time and described the same man as "a white male, about 5'7" to 5'8", 20 to 25 years of age, 150-160, wearing a white shirt, light brown jacket and dark pants (interview of Smith by SA Ward and Basham 12/13/63). Both Burt and Smith watched this unknown man as he continued walking east on 10th St, toward Patton. They saw a black police squad car driving west and slowly pull over to the curb. The young man casually walked over to the squad car and begin speaking with the officer thru the passenger window (circa 1:08 PM). After the assassination, both men were shown (HARVEY) Oswald's photograph and both men said this was not the man who shot Tippit.
As LEE Oswald began talking with Tippit near 10th & Patton, "HARVEY Oswald" was .7 mile west inside the Texas Theater (Click here to see YouTube interview with Burroughs.) HARVEY arrived at the theater at 1:07-08 PM, purchased popcorn from Burroughs about 1:15 PM, and then walked into the lower level and took a seat next to a pregnant woman. Within a few minutes both Oswald and the woman got up from their seats. Oswald walked into the concession area and then back into the lower level and took a seat next to Jack Davis in the first row on the right side. Davis remembered that Oswald was sitting next to him, in the near empty theater, as the opening credits to the movie began (a few minutes before 1:20 PM). After sitting next to Davis for a few minutes, Oswald got up and walked past empty seats to the small aisle on the right side of the theater and into the concession area. Davis watched (HARVEY) Oswald as he again re-entered the theater and took a seat next to a man on the back row, directly across the aisle from Davis. Within a few minutes HARVEY Oswald got up and once again returned to the concession area. He returned a few minutes later and took a seat across the aisle from Mr. Davis, and then moved to another seat on the fourth row. It appeared to Davis as though (HARVEY) Oswald was looking for someone, perhaps a contact.
While HARVEY Oswald was sitting in the darkened Texas Theater, Tippit was talking with LEE Oswald--the same man Tippit saw at the Dobbs Restaurant two days earlier. Tippit had already driven HARVEY Oswald to the Texas Theater, and his next assignment may have been to drive LEE Oswald to the theater or perhaps to another location. Tippit and LEE Oswald may have discussed this during their brief, "friendly" conversation through the passenger side car window. But events that soon followed suggest that LEE Oswald's pre-arranged assignment was to kill Tippit (which he did by intentionally shooting him in the head), frame HARVEY for the murder (the wallet held by Capt. Westbrook at the murder scene--a wallet that contained identification for Lee Harvey Oswald), and draw police to the Texas Theater (which he did by running into the theater without purchasing a ticket). Tippit was one of the few people who knew and came in contact with both HARVEY and LEE on November 22, knew where they lived, and therefore had to be eliminated.
Jack Roy Tatum was driving east on 10th St. As he approached the squad car, Tatum noticed a young white male with both hands in the pockets of his zippered jacket leaning over the passenger side window of the squad car. Tatum said, "It looked as if Oswald and Tippit were talking to each other.... It was almost as if Tippit knew Oswald." Tatum said, "he had on a light colored zipper jacket, dark trousers and what looked like a t-shirt on." Tatum later told HSCA investigator Moriarty that he did not see Oswald wearing a brown shirt, just a white t-shirt. He also remembered Oswald "as having dark hair, dark eyes of medium build and around 5'10." At the point where Tatum drove slowly past Tippit's squad car, he was less than 10 ft from Oswald.
After talking briefly with LEE Oswald through the rolled-down window, Tippit got out of his patrol car. As he began walking toward the front of the patrol car LEE Oswald pulled his pistol and began shooting Tippit. After Tippit fell to the ground LEE Oswald walked toward him and deliberately shot him in the head (around 1:08-1:09 PM). Jack Tatum said, "whoever shot Tippit was determined that he shouldn't live and he was determined to finish the job." Tippit had to be eliminated, because he was one of the few people who knew both HARVEY and LEE.
While HARVEY Oswald was sitting in the darkened Texas Theater, Tippit was talking with LEE Oswald--the same man Tippit saw at the Dobbs Restaurant two days earlier. Tippit had already driven HARVEY Oswald to the Texas Theater, and his next assignment may have been to drive LEE Oswald to the theater or perhaps to another location. Tippit and LEE Oswald may have discussed this during their brief, "friendly" conversation through the passenger side car window. But events that soon followed suggest that LEE Oswald's pre-arranged assignment was to kill Tippit (which he did by intentionally shooting him in the head), frame HARVEY for the murder (the wallet held by Capt. Westbrook at the murder scene--a wallet that contained identification for Lee Harvey Oswald), and draw police to the Texas Theater (which he did by running into the theater without purchasing a ticket). Tippit was one of the few people who knew and came in contact with both HARVEY and LEE on November 22, knew where they lived, and therefore had to be eliminated.
Jack Roy Tatum was driving east on 10th St. As he approached the squad car, Tatum noticed a young white male with both hands in the pockets of his zippered jacket leaning over the passenger side window of the squad car. Tatum said, "It looked as if Oswald and Tippit were talking to each other.... It was almost as if Tippit knew Oswald." Tatum said, "he had on a light colored zipper jacket, dark trousers and what looked like a t-shirt on." Tatum later told HSCA investigator Moriarty that he did not see Oswald wearing a brown shirt, just a white t-shirt. He also remembered Oswald "as having dark hair, dark eyes of medium build and around 5'10." At the point where Tatum drove slowly past Tippit's squad car, he was less than 10 ft from Oswald.
After talking briefly with LEE Oswald through the rolled-down window, Tippit got out of his patrol car. As he began walking toward the front of the patrol car LEE Oswald pulled his pistol and began shooting Tippit. After Tippit fell to the ground LEE Oswald walked toward him and deliberately shot him in the head (around 1:08-1:09 PM). Jack Tatum said, "whoever shot Tippit was determined that he shouldn't live and he was determined to finish the job." Tippit had to be eliminated, because he was one of the few people who knew both HARVEY and LEE.
WAS TIPPIT SHOT WITH A .38 REVOLVER OR A SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL
After talking with witness Ted Callaway Patrolman H.W. Summers reported that an "eyeball witness to the getaway man." The suspect was described as having black wavy hair, wearing an Eisenhower jacket of light color, with dark trousers and a white shirt. He was "apparently armed with a .32, dark finish, automatic pistol," which he had in his right hand. But if an automatic pistol was used to kill Tippit, three of the spent shell casings would have been ejected at the point where Oswald began shooting Tippit (near the passenger side of Tippit's squad car). After Oswald shot Tippit in the head, at point blank range, the last shell casing would have been ejected onto the pavement on Patton Avenue, which it was not. Barbara and Virginia Davis watched Oswald as he crossed in front of their house, using his right hand to shake shells from an open revolver into his left hand. Two shell casings were recovered near a bush in the Davis' side yard on 10th St., 50-60 ft. from the front of Tippit's squad car.
Note: Semi-automatic pistol would have ejected shell casings onto 10th St. But, two .38 shell casings were recovered near the bush at the right side of the porch.
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