why did Tippit have to die?

[Brian Castle]

Why did Tippit have to die?

Hi Brian have you read Joseph McBride's book on Tipppit?

Hi Magda, haven't read that yet, but I've watched McBride's video where he talks about the book.

This is part of what I was alluding to in the OP - "on the surface" we have the stuff that McBride is talking about, the relationships with Jack Ruby and so on - but underneath the surface there seems to be an entirely different guiding hand, one that involves people of the 488th like Westbrook who asked Bob Barrett about Hidell's name when the wallet was given to him -

So this latter piece of evidence (which as I recall dates to '92?) would tend to cast doubt on Mr. Tippit Sr's allegation that JD was sent to hunt down Oswald. If the DPD already knew who Oswald was, then obviously Westbrook wouldn't have had to ask. It more likely seems that the "hunting" story is something that might have been told to a grieving widow and passed on to a proud father.

McBride's allegation linking the lack of eye contact to some form of PTSD is interesting too. I'm going to research that one, that's an interesting area of research. Many of the players in this story are either dyslexic or borderline autistic or in general report specific symptoms that could be specifically diagnosed today, whereas in 1963 they might have been called "slightly retarded" and left at that. Perhaps Jack Dougherty is one such person, he sounds like a true case of ADD instead of the armchair version that every bored elementary school kid gets treated for these days.