Two Dallas cops were involved in the pre-arranged murder of J.D. Tippit ....

[Jim Hargrove]

Why weren't there more witnesses to Lee milling about and being passed a gun by Ruby in front of the Depository?

Victoria Adams, who worked in the TSBD, told the WC that she observed a man standing on the corner of Houston and Elm a few minutes after the assassination who may have been Jack Ruby. Across the street Mrs. Louis Velez, and two co-workers, saw Ruby walking up and down the street near the TSBD. When LEE Oswald came out of the building, they saw Ruby give a pistol to him. The women knew Oswald, who ate with them at a nearby restaurant, and both were acquainted with Jack Ruby. Mrs. Velez told her story of Ruby giving Oswald a pistol to her mother (Mrs. Evelyn Harris), who was interviewed by FBI agent Manning on 11/30/63. Neither Mrs. Velez nor her co-workers were interviewed by the DPD or FBI and given the opportunity to confirm or deny their story. If their story is true, then Ruby was deeply involved in the assassination. Ruby knew and associated with LEE Oswald in the summer of 1963, while HARVEY and Marina were living in New Orleans.[SUP]1[/SUP]

There's an interesting connection between Whaley saying Harvey was calm and wasn't in a hurry and Baker saying the same of Harvey in the lunch room. Both encounters drew remarks about the same person showing remarkable and memorable calmness. It would make sense since all he was doing during the shooting was sitting in the lunch room having lunch. It is also possible he was mind-controlled.

Now that Armstrong places both Harvey & Lee in the Depository, it creates a higher possibility that the discrepancy in Baker's reporting of the lunch room event is due to Baker and Truly witnessing both Oswalds in the Depository.

John always believed that both Harvey and Lee were in or by the TSBD during the shooting, but your scenario involving Baker and Truly never occurred to him until I read him one of your posts while talking on the phone. He thought your take was definitely possible, but I don't think he knows how to research it any further. Any ideas?

The 38 potentially passed off to Westbrook by Lee at the Tippit murder scene would have been an automatic.

After talking with witness Ted Callaway Patrolman H.W. Summers reported that he had 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. However, 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 and would have landed on 10th St. (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 10th St., which it was not. Barbara and Virginia Davis watched Oswald as he crossed in front of their house and crossed their lawn, using his right hand to shake empty 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., about 50-60 ft. from the front of Tippit's squad car where the shots were fired.[SUP]2

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Armstrong has assembled what may very well be case-cracking information.

I think so too. Thanks.

NOTES 1,2: Quoted from "November 22, 1963" at HarveyandLee.net