15-06-2021, 10:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-06-2021, 11:31 AM by Milo Reech.)
No getting rid of this phony, not even by researchers who should know better, primarily because of the persistence of the coup de grace hallucinated by the HSCA. Here it is:
Oswald, according to Tatum, after initially shooting Tippit from his position on the sidewalk, walked around the patrol car to where Tippit lay in the street and stood over him while he shot him at point blank range in the head. This action, which is often encountered in gangland murders and is commonly described as a coup de grace, is more indicative of an execution than an act of defense intended to allow escape or prevent apprehension. Absent further evidence--which the committee did not develop-- the meaning of this evidence must remain uncertain. 14
14 The committee did verify from the Tippit autopsy report that there was one wound in the body that slanted upward from front to back. Though previously unexplained, it would be consistent with the observation of Jack Ray Tatum.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html...lPageId=89 & 90
If the committee had bothered to read the entire report it would have learned that the upward direction of bullet #1 (head shot) through the body was not unique. Bullet #2 entered at a slightly upward angle and bullet #3 also entered at an upward angle (Gunshot Wound Chart item 5). All were "previously unexplained."
The chart's preceding item 4 disclosed that powder burns were absent relative to bullet #1. See attachment.
This amplified the report's first page statement ("External Examination") also relative to bullet #1 that "No powder tattooing is noted at the margins."
Autopsy Number: M63-352
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461220
The committee's finding was based on a 2/1/78 interview of Tatum by investigators Moriarty & Basteri. Here's a link to Armstrong's Jack Tatum subject file at Baylor for those who enjoy works of fiction.
https://digitalcollections-baylor.quarte...963/689777
It may come as a surprise that Tatum on 2/1/78 neither stated nor implied that "Oswald... stood over him while he shot him at point blank range in the head." Tatum did not say he saw Oswald stand over Tippit, and the point blank idea came from Moriarty. I'll leave it to others to decide if the distance qualified as point blank, but the absence of powder burns & tattooing is something to think about. Perhaps the material is fragmentary, more likely the HSCA committee got swept away by a coup de grace fantasy.
Oswald, according to Tatum, after initially shooting Tippit from his position on the sidewalk, walked around the patrol car to where Tippit lay in the street and stood over him while he shot him at point blank range in the head. This action, which is often encountered in gangland murders and is commonly described as a coup de grace, is more indicative of an execution than an act of defense intended to allow escape or prevent apprehension. Absent further evidence--which the committee did not develop-- the meaning of this evidence must remain uncertain. 14
14 The committee did verify from the Tippit autopsy report that there was one wound in the body that slanted upward from front to back. Though previously unexplained, it would be consistent with the observation of Jack Ray Tatum.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html...lPageId=89 & 90
If the committee had bothered to read the entire report it would have learned that the upward direction of bullet #1 (head shot) through the body was not unique. Bullet #2 entered at a slightly upward angle and bullet #3 also entered at an upward angle (Gunshot Wound Chart item 5). All were "previously unexplained."
The chart's preceding item 4 disclosed that powder burns were absent relative to bullet #1. See attachment.
This amplified the report's first page statement ("External Examination") also relative to bullet #1 that "No powder tattooing is noted at the margins."
Autopsy Number: M63-352
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461220
The committee's finding was based on a 2/1/78 interview of Tatum by investigators Moriarty & Basteri. Here's a link to Armstrong's Jack Tatum subject file at Baylor for those who enjoy works of fiction.
https://digitalcollections-baylor.quarte...963/689777
It may come as a surprise that Tatum on 2/1/78 neither stated nor implied that "Oswald... stood over him while he shot him at point blank range in the head." Tatum did not say he saw Oswald stand over Tippit, and the point blank idea came from Moriarty. I'll leave it to others to decide if the distance qualified as point blank, but the absence of powder burns & tattooing is something to think about. Perhaps the material is fragmentary, more likely the HSCA committee got swept away by a coup de grace fantasy.