Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

 I received this communication from the Wizard concerning the Tippit shooting:

Ralph

In your blog post, you were wondering whether the newspaper you were quoting had got the "X" for the Tippit site exactly right because not all the streets were marked. They were one block out: the actual location was diagonally opposite to the "X" (to the north-west) on (close to the corner of) 10th and Patton.

Ironically, they placed the "X" on Denver and Lansing. Lansing Street is mostly a dirt track, running from south Beckley, close to the Texas Theater, all the way North to 6th St, where it starts becoming suburbs. It is more of an alleyway than a street and runs over parking lots and industrial sites. These days it is blocked by a few chain gates. Crucially, in 1963 it joined the alleyway where Mrs. Holan (and possibly Domingo Benavides) saw a second police car during the shooting. The car reversed and drove off, either north or south (the latter route ended in Beckley, just opposite Sunset Avenue, at the back of the Texas Theater).

This is the alleyway heavily emphasised in John Armstrong's work. It would be the sort of back road the police would know and use to avoid traffic, or, in this case, to transport a person, or someone similar looking, who was about to become well-known, as discreetly as possible.

That part of 10th and Patton has been extensively rebuilt since 1963. The two colonial-style family houses on the south-west corner, where Tippit was shot, have been replaced by smaller residences, and there is almost no trace of the short alleyway where the second cop car parked. There is just an old concrete ramp from the (Lansing) alleyway/track joining similar concrete paving in what is now a back garden. See attached photo: "Tippit police car alleyway remnants": that's where the suspect cop car was parked. 

This is Lansing "Street" viewed from Beckley.

RC:  First, I am not as well versed on the Tippit shooting as the Wizard. But, I shall point out that Fritz was asked what Oswald said about all this, and he glibly said that Oswald was on his way to the  picture show when he killed the Officer, and I'm sure his implication was that Oswald was proceeding on foot. But you just have to look at any of the maps to realize that that can't be true because if Oswald was on his way to the picture show, he never would have been at 10th and Patton. The shortest distance betwen two points is a straight line, and in this case, it was practically a straight line: straight down Beckley to Jefferson. Then, there was just a slight jog down Jefferson, but in the opposite direction from 10th and Patton. Therefore, there is no way to place Oswald at 10th and Patton if he was going to the theater and knew where it was. 

And others have recognized this, including David Belin, who said that Oswald was heading "to Mexico" but then after killing Tippit, he ducked into the theater.  But, the Mexico claim makes no sense because it came straight out of Belin's ass. that is: he made it up. it isn't based on anything material.

Plus, Oswald would not have had time to get to the theater in a straight shot walking even if he bypassed 10th and Patton and walked straight down Beckley. But, when you throw in the encounter with Tippit at 10th and Patton and the shooting, etc., it makes the timeframe even more impossible. 

In fact, even if we forget about Butch Burroughs's testimony of seeing Oswald in the theater at 1:07, the time still doesn't work because Oswald would have left his boarding room at 1:03, and walking through cityscape, stopping at every intersection, it's doubtful he could have gotten to 10th and Patton even by 1:15.  And then, when you allow for the interaction, the shooting, hiding the jacket, and then walking to the theater, and doing all the things he did in the theater before the police arrived, it's doubtful there was enough time. 

But, the fact is that Butch Burroughs was as solid as any witness in the case, and he said, repeatedly, that Oswald was in the theater by 1:07.

You notice that this map as Ruby's apartment indicated, and I suspect that is there because many people suspect that that's where Oswald was headed: to Ruby's apartment. And it is plausible considering that it puts 10th and Patton on the diagonal between Oswald's room and Ruby's apartment.

But, it is complete, utter nonsense because Oswald did not know Jack Ruby. And yes, I know about the sightings of them, but they are bogus.  And Ruby said so himself, that he didn't know Oswald and never met him. And Ruby was never known to lie about anything. Oswald and Ruby knowing each other is just one of the many false narratives in the case.

John Armstrong's position is that "Lee" Oswald shot Tippit to frame "Harvey" who was the Oswald of fame who worked at the TSBD, was married to Marina, etc. And it is very plausible because it would have been pointless to kill Tippit unless Oswald could be framed for it. And there were two Dallas police officers involved, Captain Westbrook and Sergeant Croy. Here are some interesting points from Captain Westbrook's WC testimony.

First, he claimed to have two addresses: an apartment. in Dallas and a home in Quinton, Oklahoma, 300 miles away. There are plenty of people with two residences, but they tend to be rich people. Don't you agree? 

Second: he was the personnel Captain at the DPD. He was more like their staffing manager. He hired police personnel, but he didn't really do police work, and he didn't wear a uniform. He didn't wear one that day.

Third, so without being in uniform, he went to the TSBD "to help in the search." Why would the personnel guy do that? 

Fourth, and then he got someone to drive him to the scene of the Tippit murder. He never mentioned Reserve Officer Kenneth Croy, and Croy never mentioned him, even though they both admitted being there at the same time. And, Croy never even admitted that he was a reserve officer until he was forced to.

Mr. GRIFFIN. What is your occupation?
Mr. CROY. I have several.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let's have them in order.
Mr. CROY. I am in the real estate business. I have a Mobil service station. I am in the steel erection business. And I am a professional cowboy, and that is about it that I can think of right now.

But later;

Mr. GRIFFIN: Are you also connected in some way with the Dallas Police Department?
Mr. CROY. I am in the reserves.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How long have you been in the reserves?
Mr. CROY. Since August of 1959.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you hold any rank in the reserves?
Mr. CROY. I am a sergeant.

He couldn't think of that himself?