Paper I delivered at COPA for John Armstrong.

[Gordon Gray]

While I find much of the Harvey/Lee idea compelling, one question always trouble's me about the Tippit shooting. I seems very problematic to shoot Tippit and then lead the police to Harvey in the Theatre. Why would they risk having him arrested? It would make more sense to have him meet his contact and be flown out of the area where he could be quietly eliminated. Had Ruby not been able to silence Oswald, what he could have said during the process leading to a trial could very likely lead to exposure of all kinds of secrets and operations, not just the JFK assassination plot. I've always regarded the Tippit shooting as part of a plan gone awry, not part of a careful plan.