11-12-2018, 11:55 AM
James Lateer Wrote:If the Tippit murder were not planned in advance, then why would Oswald carefully mail order BOTH A RIFLE AND A PISTOL?
The rifle and the pistol were bought in identical and parallel processes from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago and Seaport Trading in LA.
The pistol was bored for a different caliber than the bullets so that the bullets could not be matched to the Oswald pistol. And you're maintaining that the Tippit murder was planned on the fly? I just can't see that.
Incredibly, it seems like Senator Dodd (who investigated the weapons dealers involved as early as January, 1963) had both the JFK and the Tippit murders on the drawing boards for 11 months in advance.
It's easy to see why. If Oswald was to be a patsy, then there obviously would not be any evidence for which to arrest him in the JFK hit. So you needed another crime to bust him for.
This need for another crime would have been obvious from the beginning. The fact that a Dallas policeman would be sacrificed tells me all by itself that the Dallas Police did not think of the Tippit murder on the fly. Even if they all hated JFK, they wouldn't target one of their own.
If they were planning it on the fly, they would have targeted a civilian. Why not? There were plenty of civilians around 10th and Patton. And deal civilians like dead Dallas policemen TELL NO TALES!
James Lateer
Tippit was killed with an automatic. As explained in the essay that is the subject of this thread, the official murder weapon is a forensic failure.
If DPD was so hot & bothered by Tippit's murder, why didn't Leavelle conduct a competent investigation, instead of cooking a case against LHO at Fritz's behest?