Touring the Tippit Scene

[Bill Brown]

Excellent job Bill.  Your memory for detail is amazing.  Have you ever come across any pictures or maps of the interior of the Texas Theatre at the time of Oswald's arrest?  The balcony report has always been interesting to me since it appears to derived right from the beginning.  It seems to come from the fact that no one saw Oswald go through the lobby and the assumption was made that he went straight to the balcony because he wasn't seen by Burroughs.  There was some indication that the balcony could be accessed immediately upon entering the lobby and some teenagers had apparently done so on prior occasions to avoid the ticket taker.  But I've never seen any confirmation that the balcony could be so accessed.  I've been there but the balcony is long gone.  It's entirely possible that Oswald just made his way unseen through the lobby, but I also wonder if he might have gone up to the balcony and somehow gone down another set of stairs to access the main level without being seen.

Thanks Richard, much appreciated buddy.

I've always believed that Oswald went straight up to the balcony immediately upon entering the theater and this is how he went unnoticed by Burroughs.

Hugh Aynesworth once told me that he (Aynesworth) went up to the balcony when he got to the theater (he arrived at the theater with many of the police officers out front).  He said there were some school boys up in the balcony playing hooky from school.  If true, Oswald (arriving up in the balcony minutes earlier) could have thought better of staying up there once he saw all of the boys there and simply decided to go down to the main auditorium.

[Bill Brown]

Bill, a most excellent tour despite Robert Groden’s attempt to disrupt it with all his horn honking.

 

Thanks Joe.

[Bill Brown]

Bill’s method of walking arse backwards while retracing the supposed route of Oswald, is INGENIUS!!

LOL  Zeon. 

[Rick Plant]

Excellent video Mr. Brown. People watching can view the actual location and see the house. 

[Bill Brown]

Excellent video Mr. Brown. People watching can view the actual location and see the house.

Thanks Rick.   

[Bill Chapman]

Here's a little walking tour I gave back in March of 2020.  We discuss the Tippit shooting, the witnesses and some of the evidence.  We begin close to the location where Tippit's patrol car stopped, go all the way down Patton to Jefferson and we end up in the alley behind the former Ballew's Texaco (where the jacket was found).

Why wouldn't Benavides just gun his engine and get the hell out of there pronto
If it was me I would have mowed the little prick down

And why wouldn't Scroggins peel out of there instead of hiding behind his car and leave it up to Oswald to decide his fate. Ppl, never let your attacker decide your fate no matter what the odds