The Tippit Case in the New Millenium

[David Josephs]

At 1:16, they had a report that Tippit was shot. But they only mentioned Oswald as being in the Texas Theater at 1:44. I thought that when witnesses arrived at the scene of the Tippit shooting, they were very soon told by a shop owner fronting on the Tippit murder scene that LHO was walking toward the Texas Theater.

You are referring to BREWER from the shoe store next to the theater who did not say anything until much closer to 1:44... But please remember these times are complete BS and truly cannot be used for much...

Tippit was shot at 1:07 as Markham, Bowley and the rest of the witnesses state...
There is a 3 minute break in the film between 1:04 and 1:07.

The Texas Theater was not that far from the Tippit shooting. Why would there be a 28 minute interval between the shooting of Tippit and the police finding Oswald at the Theater?

Now THAT is a great question James. Butch Burroughs sells an OSWALD popcorn just a bit after 1pm...
It is about 6/10th of a mile or a 15-20 walk from Tippit to the theater.

Also, Tippit was contacted by the dispatcher at 12.47. But he was shot at 1:16. Was Tippit just sitting still in his car at the same place at Oak Cliff for 29 minutes? Or was Tippit driving around Oak Cliff for the 29 minutes?

http://harveyandlee.net/Tippit/Tippit.html . http://harveyandlee.net/November/TippittMurder.html
These 2 links illustrate what Tippit did in that last hour of his life and what members of the DPD who were not supposed to be involved but were, did in that hour and the hour afterward.
Tippit was killed 10 minutes earlier.

Why would Tippit (if he was) just sitting still for 29 minutes? And what were the other police doing for the fairly long interval between 12:47 and 1:16 when Tippit was shot? If there was reason for Tippit to either be stationary or driving around Oak Cliff at this time, why weren't other squad cars engaged in the same pattern of activity as was Tippit?

Read the articles first.... what one could argue and what would one believe has little bearing on the actual facts.... or the way the evidence was FUBAR'd... I can't work with "probably's"... I like to cross-reference the evidence to find the conflicts and corroboration... and determine what's real and what isn't.

Tippit being sent to Oak Cliff leaves his area unpatrolled.... why is Oak Cliff more important than areas 78 and 87?
Why do they send patrol cars miles away - like 87 to 4340 W Davis - when the patrol car for that area was still there?




One could argue that the plotters thought Oswald would arrive at 10th and Patton and kill Tippit at or near 12:47. The fact that it took another 29 minutes to kill Tippit would mean that LHO was not proceeding directly to the Tippit scene OR to the Texas Theater, but maybe LHO spent that time trying various avenues of escape. The house that is mentioned for no reason may have been a safe house for Cubans. Maybe during this interval, Oswald tried to go to a safe house.

The safe house they are discussing James, is the one behind 1026 Beckley








As I say... "Probably" is a fun game and good for conversation... but not for conclusions here... IMO.

Probably, Oswald had been assured by the plotters that if he met somebody at a certain place between the TSBD and the Tippit shooting, he would be aided in an escape. He probably got there and nobody was there or the door was locked, etc.

LHO probably then went from this safe house or meeting place and then to the Texas Theater and never went near the Tippit shooting. Of course, we think he went to his rooming house to pick up his gun. But the rooming house was on the route to the Tippit murder, so that wouldn't have taken 29 minutes. How long was he at the rooming house?

I have always believed that going to the Texas Theater was a strategy invented by Oswald himself, where there were witnesses who could see if the police tried to shoot him in cold blood.

Why, at the theater, would Oswald believe he would be shot? He hadn't done anything wrong that day other than leaving work like a handful of others.

You may not be aware, but when Oswald got to the theater he first went to the Balcony, then he went by each person in the theater.

I hope you enjoy learning more about the Tippit situation and the mysterious travels and testimonies of people like WESTBROOK & CROY.
Cheers
DJ

(Click here to see YouTube interview with Burroughs.) HARVEY purchased popcorn from Burroughs at 1:15 PM and then walked into the lower level and took a seat next to a pregnant woman. Within a few minutes both Oswald and the woman got up from their seats. Oswald walked into the concession area and then back into the lower level and took a seat next to Jack Davis in the first row on the right side. Davis remembered that Oswald was sitting next to him, in the near empty theater, as the opening credits to the movie began (a few minutes before 1:20 PM). After sitting next to Davis for a few minutes, Oswald got up and walked past empty seats to the small aisle on the right side of the theater and into the concession area. Davis watched (HARVEY) Oswald as he again re-entered the theater and took a seat next to a man on the back row, directly across the aisle from Davis. Within a few minutes HARVEY Oswald got up and once again returned to the concession area. He returned a few minutes later and took a seat across the aisle from Mr. Davis, and then moved to another seat on the fourth row. It appeared to Davis as though (HARVEY) Oswald was looking for someone, perhaps a contact. From the Tippit articles above



That strategy worked (at least for the short term).

James Lateer

DJ