Jack Ruby had at least three documented links with witnesses to the shooting of officer Tippit. These witnesses were Barbara Jeanette Davis, Virginia Davis and Helen Markham.
The message pad of Larry Crafard listing incoming calls for Jack Ruby contained the telephone number that Barbara and Virginia listed on their affidavits pertaining to the shooting of Tippit.
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LoginAnother witness to this shooting, Helen Markham, was waiting for a bus to take her to work at a place described by George Senator, a roommate of Jack Ruby, as his hangout.
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LoginThese coincidences lend credibility to the rumor that the first citizen who used the police radio to report the shooting, T. F. Bowley, was a longtime friend of former employee of Jack Ruby. I describe this linkage as a rumor because the HSCA contact report allegedly containing this information has not been published.
Unfortunately the failure of the WC and successors to adequately address the documented linkages between Ruby and witnesses at the Tippit crime scene encourage irresponsible speculation.
Herbert
I found this very interesting from Bowleys affidavit:- A few minutes later an ambulance came to the scene. I helped load the officer onto the stretcher and into the ambulance. As we picked the officer up, I noticed his pistol laying on the ground under him. Someone picked the pistol up and laid it on the hood of the squad car. When the ambulance left, I took the gun and put it inside the squad car. A man took the pistol out and said, "Let's catch him." He opened the cylinder, and I saw that no rounds in it had been fired. This man then took the pistol with him and got into a cab and drove off.
The amount of non police that handled the gun is unbelievable.Maybe the gun had a bent firing pin which would stop Tippet using it when approached
or there was a need to switch out Tippets real weapon for this one .
perhaps Dallas really was the wild west:-I ran around on 10th Street and saw a Police officer laying in the street. He looked dead to me. I got the officer's gun and hollered at a cab driver to come on, We might catch the man. We got into his cab, number 213 and drove up Patton to Jefferson and looked all around, but did not see him. The number 2 man in the line up that I saw at City Hall is the man I saw with the gun in his hand.
/s/ Ted Callaway
Callaway again from W.C. :-Mr. CALLAWAY. I saw a squad car, and by that time there was four or five people that had gathered, a couple of cars had stopped. Then I saw--I went on up to the squad car and saw the police officer lying in the street. I see he had been shot in the head. So the first thing I did, I ran over to the squad car. I didn't know whether anybody reported it or not. So I got on the police radio and called them, and told them a man had been shot, told them the location, I thought the officer was dead. They said we know about it, stay off the air, so I went back.
By this time an ambulance was coming. The officer was laying on his left side, his pistol was underneath him. I kind of rolled him over and took his gun out from under him. The people wonder whether he ever got his pistol out of his holster. He did.
Mr. BALL. The pistol was out of the holster?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes, sir; out of the holster, and it was unsnapped. It was on his right side. He was laying with the gun under him.
Mr. BALL. What did you do?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I picked the gun up and laid it on the hood of the squad car, and then someone put it in the front seat of the squad car. Then after I helped load Officer Tippit in the ambulance,
Somebody did not get their story quite right .Was Gerald Hill present when all this gun shuffling was occuring?.
Coincidence,Contradiction or Conspiracy thats a difficult one no?.
Ian
