Touring the Tippit Scene

[Bill Chapman]

Do you or do you not ever visit your father's grave?

 

[Denis Pointing]

"The question was, would you still visit his grave?"
"You mean you don't visit your own father's grave?"
"If I did, I sure wouldn't take a knee."
"What?"
"Do you or do you not ever visit your father's grave?"
 ""

Some members here need to grow up. Stop embarrassing themselves and more importantly stop wasting forum space.

[Bill Chapman]

"The question was, would you still visit his grave?"
"You mean you don't visit your own father's grave?"
"If I did, I sure wouldn't take a knee."
"What?"
"Do you or do you not ever visit your father's grave?"
 ""

Some members here need to grow up. Stop embarrassing themselves and more importantly stop wasting forum space.

    

[John Iacoletti]

It's hilarious watching Chapman avoid the question.

[Bill Brown]

Bill: Are you familiar with or heard of a Elcan Elliott? Gus Russo interviewed him for his book "Live by the Sword." Elliott told Russo that shortly after the assassination that he was out driving in search of his daughter who was away from home. He says he saw a man - acting suspiciously (he saw the man "relieving himself" near a bush) - that he later identified as Oswald before the shooting of Tippit near North Beckley.

It's not very credible to me - the Russo interview was in 1994 - and Elliott apparently never told anyone at the time of the shooting of his experience. It's less than not very; it's not credible at all.

A fuller account is here:  https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,2759.msg101861.html#msg101861

Hi Steve.  I've never heard of Elcan Elliott; never heard that story before.

[Bill Brown]

Well done Bill. Coincidentally, I recently took a virtual tour of that area using the street view on google maps. And I was a little surprised at how many changes have taken place to the structures there since 1963. We can still get a feel for how it was 57-years ago by looking at photos and visiting and walking it like y’all did. But that area hasn’t been preserved like Dealey Plaza has, so it takes a little more imagination.

Thanks Charles.

Yep, the area around Tenth and Patton has changed a bit.  One can no longer drive Tippit's route (Tenth St. is closed off just west of the intersection with Patton).

Most importantly, you can still walk Oswald's escape route (at least the known route, to the Texaco station).

[Bill Brown]

Nice walkabout, a real eyeopener re just how close things were to each other.
I wonder how feasible it would be to have a couple of people who would be stand-ins for Oswald and whichever witness was being depicted re distance. That would give the onlooker a better idea of how difficult it might be to ID the killer.

Thanks Bill (and thanks for bumping this thread).

Yes, a lot like Dealey Plaza, more than one person has said to me that they had no idea that all of the Tippit witnesses were so close in proximity to each other.  The killer was seen by at least fifteen people between the shooting site and the Texaco station barely over a block away.