My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Jim Hargrove]

Jim, I have to agree with Joseph that I don't go along with Armstrong's scenario of the Tippit murder. Armstrong doesn't deal at all with witnesses who saw two men (no mention of Acquilla Clemons), discrepancies in clothing seen by different witnesses, differences in escape routes (see the interviews with Markham and Callaway in The Men Who Killed Kennedy) or with a car in the alley, and those who had seen Tippit in that neighborhood before (Jimmy Earl Burt calling him "Officer Friendly" for example).

In an otherwise great book, I think JA was trying a little too hard to squeeze "Lee" into every scenario he could.

Perhaps, but then we have to consider how a wallet containing a Texas drivers license for Lee Harvey Oswald and the Hidell id got to the Tippit murder scene and was filmed by WFAA-TV and seen by FBI SA Bob Barrett. Russian-speaking HARVEY didn't have a drivers license. American-born LEE clearly did.

If LEE killed Tippit and dropped the license at the scene to incriminate HARVEY, that seals the deal. If someone else brought the wallet to the scene (JA suspects Capt. Westbrook), then that hardly settles the matter, but there certainly is some sort of link between LEE Oswald and Tippit's murder.

Jim