My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Jan Klimkowski]

I wrote previously -

Wow I'm really sorry if i am wrong about Tippit being a good shot. But i just listened to Mr McBrides interview about his new book on Black Op radio yesterday and Im almost sure he stated that when he interviewed Tippits father he specifically said that his son was an excellent shot.

But i make no claims about being infallible. Maybe I didn't understand the interview properly. My sincere apologies if i am wrong.
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I just rechecked the the 8/8/2013 interview with Mr. McBride over at Black Op Radio and at approximately the 56:50 mark he does say that Tippits father said his son was a "great" shot.

I make no other claims about Badge man or Tippit being one of the shooters.

Steve, I don't think Jan was questioning the accuracy of your memory so much as the evidence adduced in the book to support his claim. I have still to read this book. I'm sure it contains a lot of interesting and valuable information. As Dawn said, an author is rarely correct about even 75% of the assertions made. In this case, it is impossible to have that level of certainty.

Albert - precisely.

Steve - most researchers during the course of their work uncover evidence which leads them to build a hypothesis which they then test against all the other known facts, information and hypotheses about the event they are exploring. Sometimes, after sharing their hypothesis with others, information which was unknown to the researcher comes to his or her attention, and this information may cause the original working hypothesis to be refined, adapted or even rejected in favour of a new working hypothesis.

This is a good, honest, noble endeavour.

Two steps forward, one step back, represents fine progress.

One of the building blocks of Joseph McBride's work is that the Jack White / Gary Mack Dunkel photographic analysis known as "Badge Man" shows an invidividual wearing a badge firing at JFK, and that this individual is most likely a police officer.

I mourn Jack White and respect his work. However, I do not believe that the "Badge Man" analysis is correct. My own considered judgement is that neither a "badge man" nor a police officer can been seen on the slope as claimed. For me, the "Badge Man" hypothesis is not proven, and is false.

Another building block of Joseph McBride's work is that "Badge Man" was JD Tippit, that Tippit was a "crack shot" and that he blew JFK's brains out:

"The accuracy of that shot that most likely was the one that blew out the back of Kennedy's head attests to the lethal expertise of the gunman who fired it. J. D. Tippit's unusual skill with firearms, from boyhood, was attested to by his father, and it was furthered in his U. S. Army service during World War II and his years with the Dallas Police Department. That expertise could help account for why he may have been chosen for the job of Badge Man....."
(p568, Into the Nightmare)

This is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.

So, for starters, what is the evidence - beyond some hunting stories from Tippit's father - that he was a top class marksman?

Those tasked with organising the military style execution of an American President would surely have recruited world class snipers for a one time only job.