04-05-2018, 05:44 PM
In response to questions regarding the above Oswald-Tippit theory posed by Mr. Josephs:
True confession: I have never worked as a homicide investigator. My only credentials are (1) I watched nearly every show on the O J Simpson case (for many months) featuring Geraldo Rivera back in the 1990's and (2) am am currently reading book #180 on the general subject of the JFK assassination and related 1950's and 1960's history.
Everyone on this website probably has more details at their fingertips than I do regarding the forensics and witnesses in the JFK case. Frankly, I have not directed my research into the details of the forensics, although I feel that the two best books on that aspect are The Man Who Knew Too Much by Dick Russell and LBJ: Mastermind of the JFK Assassination by Philip Nelson.
If JFK buffs are waiting for a smoking gun or documentary evidence or a confession to solve the JFK case, I think we never see it even if we live to age 105. However, the good news is that we don't really need a smoking gun, a confession or documentary proof.
In A Simple Act of Murder by Mark Fuhrman, he demonstrates how a veteran detective can take an issue like the magic bullet theory and disprove it by applying his experience and sound logic.
Not to claim that I am any Sherlock Holmes, but it those type of murder mysteries, the hero of the book is the genius investigator like Piorot and Shirlock Holmes. They solve cases by lining up the facts in such a way that unexplained facts are explained.
In my opinion, Dr. Jeffry Caufield in General Walker...offers the only good explanation as to why Oswald was in a voter registration drive in Clinton, Louisiana. Likewise, even if you consider her work as fiction, Judyth Vary Baker offers the only theory (in my opinion) which explains Oswald's trip to the Jackson Louisiana Mental Hospital. Finally, Mikhail Lebedev (which is explicitly presented as fiction) offers the only explanation which ties Eastern European issues directly to the assassination.
Once we feel that we have an overall concept of the assassination plot, then the intermediate facts and evidence begin (in my experience) to fit into place much more easily.
In my posting above, I just asked the question: "was Oswald's detention at the Police Station for two days, and murder on live TV part of the plan?" Or was it evidence that the plan had gone awry.
Every little bit of new evidence (to me) provides another dot in the process of connecting the dots. You have to have a lot of dots in your head before you can connect the dots. Not all the dots are (or will ever be) out on the table as raw material.
The most recent new important information released (in 2017) was the fact that Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell had been a CIA asset as early as the mid-1950's. That new fact influences my speculation that the nucleus of the Dallas part of the plot was probably Mayor Cabell, Sorrels, Fritz, Lumkin, Tippit and similar figures. (The planners would have limited the players to the minimum number required).
We know that Tippit was placed (by the DPD) directly in the path of Oswald's flight and all other police had been ordered to downtown Dallas. Why was he in Oswald's flight path?
I would really like to know the consensus opinion of specialists like Mr. Josephs and other forensic-oriented researchers as to whether Oswald's apprehension and presence in the DPD for two days was (A) part of the plan or (B) evidence of a screw-up.
Just off the top of my head, it would seem like a screw up. But I don't have a lot of details to back that up one way or another.
James Lateer
True confession: I have never worked as a homicide investigator. My only credentials are (1) I watched nearly every show on the O J Simpson case (for many months) featuring Geraldo Rivera back in the 1990's and (2) am am currently reading book #180 on the general subject of the JFK assassination and related 1950's and 1960's history.
Everyone on this website probably has more details at their fingertips than I do regarding the forensics and witnesses in the JFK case. Frankly, I have not directed my research into the details of the forensics, although I feel that the two best books on that aspect are The Man Who Knew Too Much by Dick Russell and LBJ: Mastermind of the JFK Assassination by Philip Nelson.
If JFK buffs are waiting for a smoking gun or documentary evidence or a confession to solve the JFK case, I think we never see it even if we live to age 105. However, the good news is that we don't really need a smoking gun, a confession or documentary proof.
In A Simple Act of Murder by Mark Fuhrman, he demonstrates how a veteran detective can take an issue like the magic bullet theory and disprove it by applying his experience and sound logic.
Not to claim that I am any Sherlock Holmes, but it those type of murder mysteries, the hero of the book is the genius investigator like Piorot and Shirlock Holmes. They solve cases by lining up the facts in such a way that unexplained facts are explained.
In my opinion, Dr. Jeffry Caufield in General Walker...offers the only good explanation as to why Oswald was in a voter registration drive in Clinton, Louisiana. Likewise, even if you consider her work as fiction, Judyth Vary Baker offers the only theory (in my opinion) which explains Oswald's trip to the Jackson Louisiana Mental Hospital. Finally, Mikhail Lebedev (which is explicitly presented as fiction) offers the only explanation which ties Eastern European issues directly to the assassination.
Once we feel that we have an overall concept of the assassination plot, then the intermediate facts and evidence begin (in my experience) to fit into place much more easily.
In my posting above, I just asked the question: "was Oswald's detention at the Police Station for two days, and murder on live TV part of the plan?" Or was it evidence that the plan had gone awry.
Every little bit of new evidence (to me) provides another dot in the process of connecting the dots. You have to have a lot of dots in your head before you can connect the dots. Not all the dots are (or will ever be) out on the table as raw material.
The most recent new important information released (in 2017) was the fact that Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell had been a CIA asset as early as the mid-1950's. That new fact influences my speculation that the nucleus of the Dallas part of the plot was probably Mayor Cabell, Sorrels, Fritz, Lumkin, Tippit and similar figures. (The planners would have limited the players to the minimum number required).
We know that Tippit was placed (by the DPD) directly in the path of Oswald's flight and all other police had been ordered to downtown Dallas. Why was he in Oswald's flight path?
I would really like to know the consensus opinion of specialists like Mr. Josephs and other forensic-oriented researchers as to whether Oswald's apprehension and presence in the DPD for two days was (A) part of the plan or (B) evidence of a screw-up.
Just off the top of my head, it would seem like a screw up. But I don't have a lot of details to back that up one way or another.
James Lateer