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

[Jim Hargrove]

OK, so the show was "The Lost JFK Tapes: the Assassination." It was a 2 hour show that aired on the National Geographic Channel last week. I have it recorded on my DVR, and I understand that I could transfer it to a DVD and extract clips or stills from it with the right gear and know how, but I'm not sure I have either.

We know that the mass media, in their haste to get a story first, often makes factual mistakes That said, a story with video often reveals details inconsistent with the way history eventually is written. Here is a partial list of the strangeness.

At 42 minutes in, there is a story about, and a video clip of, a "24 year old" pudgy man wearing a suit and glasses who was "arrested inside the TSBD." He claimed to have gone into the building "to use the telephone." The story sounds like the Eugene Brading story (albeit in the wrong building) but the guy looks more like Richard Cain.

At 44 minutes in, there is the clip of a plainclothes officer (presumably Westbrook) and a uniformed officer (?) handling the "Tippet wallet" except in this clip, the uniform also (as is remarked on by the announcer and) clearly does have in his hands a revolver. The news caster says this is the gun used to kill Tippet. Now, the problem with that is that Oswald still had a revolver in hand at the Theater (allegedly). The second problem is the iron sight on the revolver in the clip looks triangular, not rounded (as the NARA revolver is), and the barrel seems a bit longer, though I haven't digitally measured the image.

Later a clip shows DPD forensics guy Lt. Day powdering the rifle for prints INSIDE the TSBD among the boxes. It was claimed officially that he dusted the gun for prints back in his office at the station (IIRC)

There may be more, I'm going to have to watch it again with a pad of paper and the pause button handy.

MEGATHANKS!! That was enough info to find it. I've made a short vidcap of the scene in .mp4 and .ogv formats. Hopefully, the .mp4 file will display here.

[video]http://harveyandlee.net/Temp/Revolver.mp4[/video]

Looks like a revolver to me, and this must be Ron Reiland footage from a different angle than I've seen before. I've got this video in a temp file on my website, and I probably shouldn't leave it there forever, so interested persons should have a look ASAP.