09-12-2018, 10:10 PM
I can see how peope get hooked on the Tippit case--kinda like the OJ Simpson case about which I watched Geraldo Riviera every night for six months back in the 1990's.
Not to sound too tiresome and picky---but....
For all the superb graphics, aerial photos of Dallas and the Oswald flight path, I'm still not entirely clear what the end goal is for analyzing the Tippit murder? Is it just prove that there were many witnesses who lied? Is it to prove that the Warren Commission evidence was mostly fake? If if is, then we already know that. As they say in the legal world, "we can stipulate to that fact."
I would think that the goal would be to find out how, why and by whom was Tippit killed. For that, you can't rely on proving who is lying---you need to prove who is telling the truth. Without that, I don't see how you can get the truth solely from proven false testimony.
Even though the maps and spreadsheet comparisons of the timelines of the police radio transmissions are really helpful (and kind of shocking), I myself feel that there are basic questions that should be targeted for answering:
1. What was the chain of command from (presumably) the Pentagon (where the command center for the assassination was likely in place) to the murder scene of Tippit?
2. If more than one or two Dallas policemen were involved before-the-fact in a plot that included the murder of Tippit, how could they include the murder of one of their own as part of the plot? On the surface, that doesn't sound realistic. It's similar to the question as to why would Conservative Democrats like LBJ or James O. Eastland want to risk one of their own (Gov. John B. Connally) to be sacrificed? Both of these things would be against the self-interest of the Dallas police and Dixie-crats respectively. After all, which Southern politician or Dallas policeman would be sacrificed next?
3. Is it possible to divide the Tippit murder witnesses into three categories: (1) witnesses who were by chance on the Tippit scene for legitimate reasons, (2) those who really had no business being on the scene and (3) those where were too far away from the Tippit scene to really see anything and who embellished.?
4. The Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency chaired by Senator Thomas Dodd was investigating Klein's Sporting Goods and Seaport Trading (Oswald's weapons vendors) as early as January, 1963. That being the case, you would have to believe that Dodd knew that there was a plan for Oswald to use a rifle to kill JFK and a pistol to kill Tippit. Why else would they be investigating Oswald's purchase of a rifle and a pistol? I know this sounds unbelievably crass on the part of Senator Dodd and his friends the plotters, it is pretty well proven that this was the fact.
5. This, to me, almost completely proves that the plot was hatched in detail by Dodd and friends on his many trips over to Europe (and specifically Germany) in 1963. If there was this level of detail known to anyone physically in the US, then the likelihood of leaks would be too great. Also, people would be observed meeting together for no apparent reason. This would inevitably come to light later.
6. Another reality is that this level of detail in the plot in early 1963 would have required the inclusion and compliticy of the owner of the TSBD D. Harold Byrd at a very early date in 1963. If the plotters had the weapons and the sniper's nest nailed down in mid 1963, then all they had extra to do was to lure JFK to Dallas and for him to ride in a motorcade there. And LBJ began planning JFK's Dallas trip while in El Paso in June, 1963.
7. The fact that Jack Ruby's friend Tommy Rowe was along Oswald's flight path kind of cements the planning of the entire flight path (including the murder of Tippit) into a fairly early time frame, probably September or October 1963.
8. All of the above suggests to me that somebody over in Europe had a full mock-up model of Dealey Plaza and had a small "think tank" of assassination veterans (maybe from the DeGaulle attempts or something similar). All of these details could not have been invented "on the fly". Not even close.
9. Because of all these details that had to be carefully put in place beginning in 1963, it seems like almost all the planning had to be done outside of the reach of US signals intelligence, i.e. over in Europe. We know that U S signals intelligence officer Eugene B. Dinkin actually got prior knowledge of the plot because he was serving in Metz, France, only 120 miles from Bonn, Germany.
10. The role of TSBD owner D. Harold Byrd looms larger and larger with each new revelation (such as the information in The Skorzeny Papers by Ralph Ganis). Byrd was both a cousin of Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd as well as a hunting buddy of Nazi connected Baron Werner von Alvensleben whose father was invoved the the Valkyrie Hilter assassination plot in on July 20, 1944.
James Lateer
Not to sound too tiresome and picky---but....
For all the superb graphics, aerial photos of Dallas and the Oswald flight path, I'm still not entirely clear what the end goal is for analyzing the Tippit murder? Is it just prove that there were many witnesses who lied? Is it to prove that the Warren Commission evidence was mostly fake? If if is, then we already know that. As they say in the legal world, "we can stipulate to that fact."
I would think that the goal would be to find out how, why and by whom was Tippit killed. For that, you can't rely on proving who is lying---you need to prove who is telling the truth. Without that, I don't see how you can get the truth solely from proven false testimony.
Even though the maps and spreadsheet comparisons of the timelines of the police radio transmissions are really helpful (and kind of shocking), I myself feel that there are basic questions that should be targeted for answering:
1. What was the chain of command from (presumably) the Pentagon (where the command center for the assassination was likely in place) to the murder scene of Tippit?
2. If more than one or two Dallas policemen were involved before-the-fact in a plot that included the murder of Tippit, how could they include the murder of one of their own as part of the plot? On the surface, that doesn't sound realistic. It's similar to the question as to why would Conservative Democrats like LBJ or James O. Eastland want to risk one of their own (Gov. John B. Connally) to be sacrificed? Both of these things would be against the self-interest of the Dallas police and Dixie-crats respectively. After all, which Southern politician or Dallas policeman would be sacrificed next?
3. Is it possible to divide the Tippit murder witnesses into three categories: (1) witnesses who were by chance on the Tippit scene for legitimate reasons, (2) those who really had no business being on the scene and (3) those where were too far away from the Tippit scene to really see anything and who embellished.?
4. The Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency chaired by Senator Thomas Dodd was investigating Klein's Sporting Goods and Seaport Trading (Oswald's weapons vendors) as early as January, 1963. That being the case, you would have to believe that Dodd knew that there was a plan for Oswald to use a rifle to kill JFK and a pistol to kill Tippit. Why else would they be investigating Oswald's purchase of a rifle and a pistol? I know this sounds unbelievably crass on the part of Senator Dodd and his friends the plotters, it is pretty well proven that this was the fact.
5. This, to me, almost completely proves that the plot was hatched in detail by Dodd and friends on his many trips over to Europe (and specifically Germany) in 1963. If there was this level of detail known to anyone physically in the US, then the likelihood of leaks would be too great. Also, people would be observed meeting together for no apparent reason. This would inevitably come to light later.
6. Another reality is that this level of detail in the plot in early 1963 would have required the inclusion and compliticy of the owner of the TSBD D. Harold Byrd at a very early date in 1963. If the plotters had the weapons and the sniper's nest nailed down in mid 1963, then all they had extra to do was to lure JFK to Dallas and for him to ride in a motorcade there. And LBJ began planning JFK's Dallas trip while in El Paso in June, 1963.
7. The fact that Jack Ruby's friend Tommy Rowe was along Oswald's flight path kind of cements the planning of the entire flight path (including the murder of Tippit) into a fairly early time frame, probably September or October 1963.
8. All of the above suggests to me that somebody over in Europe had a full mock-up model of Dealey Plaza and had a small "think tank" of assassination veterans (maybe from the DeGaulle attempts or something similar). All of these details could not have been invented "on the fly". Not even close.
9. Because of all these details that had to be carefully put in place beginning in 1963, it seems like almost all the planning had to be done outside of the reach of US signals intelligence, i.e. over in Europe. We know that U S signals intelligence officer Eugene B. Dinkin actually got prior knowledge of the plot because he was serving in Metz, France, only 120 miles from Bonn, Germany.
10. The role of TSBD owner D. Harold Byrd looms larger and larger with each new revelation (such as the information in The Skorzeny Papers by Ralph Ganis). Byrd was both a cousin of Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd as well as a hunting buddy of Nazi connected Baron Werner von Alvensleben whose father was invoved the the Valkyrie Hilter assassination plot in on July 20, 1944.
James Lateer