Was JD Tippit involved in narcotics?

[John Mytton]

A hero  yip his actions beforehand wasn't suspicious  , wildly pulling over random cars searching them without uttering a word, running into the shop using the phone and bursting back out again, Tippit was knee deep in this conspiracy

OMG Tippit searched some cars and made a phone call, what a criminal.

JohnM

[Richard Smith]

it is sad to see a hero like Tippit defamed

Why was Tippit a hero? Be precise....

I'm not saying that he wasn't a hero, just in case you want to go there, but I would be really interested to find out why exactly you consider him to be a hero....

Why was a police officer killed in the line of duty while doing his job a hero?  Are you for real?  In this particular case, Tippit noted someone behaving suspiciously.  What exactly Oswald did to draw his attention cannot be known but Oswald had ample cause, as someone who had just assassinated the president, to not want to be seen by the police.  Tippit was not satisfied by whatever bull Oswald told him through the window and Tippit decided to pursue the matter further.  Outstanding police work that eventually led to the apprehension of the man who assassinated the president of the United States.  Tippit was murdered in the process by a criminal.  That checks all the boxes for being a hero.  He will forever be credited as a hero in the history books.  A police officer who was doing his job and gave his life.  I don't believe that he necessarily had any cause to believe Oswald was the assassin.  What he did have cause to note was that Oswald was acting suspiciously.  It was good police work. 

[Bill Chapman]

Why was a police officer killed in the line of duty while doing his job a hero?  Are you for real?  In this particular case, Tippit noted someone behaving suspiciously.  What exactly Oswald did to draw his attention cannot be known but Oswald had ample cause, as someone who had just assassinated the president, to not want to be seen by the police.  Tippit was not satisfied by whatever bull Oswald told him through the window and Tippit decided to pursue the matter further.  Outstanding police work that eventually led to the apprehension of the man who assassinated the president of the United States.  Tippit was murdered in the process by a criminal.  That checks all the boxes for being a hero.  He will forever be credited as a hero in the history books.  A police officer who was doing his job and gave his life.  I don't believe that he necessarily had any cause to believe Oswald was the assassin.  What he did have cause to note was that Oswald was acting suspiciously.  It was good police work.

It was good police work
> Presenting himself as he did to Oswald was sloppy, 'poor dumb cop' work

[Martin Weidmann]

Why was a police officer killed in the line of duty while doing his job a hero?  Are you for real?  In this particular case, Tippit noted someone behaving suspiciously.  What exactly Oswald did to draw his attention cannot be known but Oswald had ample cause, as someone who had just assassinated the president, to not want to be seen by the police.  Tippit was not satisfied by whatever bull Oswald told him through the window and Tippit decided to pursue the matter further.  Outstanding police work that eventually led to the apprehension of the man who assassinated the president of the United States.  Tippit was murdered in the process by a criminal.  That checks all the boxes for being a hero.  He will forever be credited as a hero in the history books.  A police officer who was doing his job and gave his life.  I don't believe that he necessarily had any cause to believe Oswald was the assassin.  What he did have cause to note was that Oswald was acting suspiciously.  It was good police work.

You've got a weird perception of what makes somebody a hero.

Why was a police officer killed in the line of duty while doing his job a hero?  Are you for real?

Yes. He was a cop doing his job. That alone doesn't make him a hero and neither does getting shot and killed.

In fact, there was nothing heroic about anything Tippit did, unless you want to call getting out of a car to talk to a civilian, he clearly did not perceive to be a threat, an act of heroism.

[Walt Cakebread]

A hero  yip his actions beforehand wasn't suspicious  , wildly pulling over random cars searching them without uttering a word, running into the shop using the phone and bursting back out again, Tippit was knee deep in this conspiracy

Tippit was knee deep in this conspiracy ....

I have a feeling that you're right, David..... But unfortunately the DPD closed ranks and blamed his murder on Lee Oswald. So we probably will never know what his role was?    But putting the assassination aside....Tippit could very easily have been involved in narcotics....and there may be persons still alive that could verify the rumor...

[Jerry Freeman]

  In this particular case, Tippit noted someone behaving suspiciously.  What exactly Oswald did to draw his attention cannot be known but Oswald had ample cause, as someone who had just assassinated the president, to not want to be seen by the police.  Tippit was not satisfied by whatever bull Oswald told him through the window and Tippit decided to pursue the matter further.   

Total speculation...then contradicts his own conjecture.

[Richard Smith]

You've got a weird perception of what makes somebody a hero.

Why was a police officer killed in the line of duty while doing his job a hero?  Are you for real?

Yes. He was a cop doing his job. That alone doesn't make him a hero and neither does getting shot and killed.

In fact, there was nothing heroic about anything Tippit did, unless you want to call getting out of a car to talk to a civilian, he clearly did not perceive to be a threat, an act of heroism.

Why am I not surprised that you do not appreciate the risk associated with being a police officer?  Every police officer who leaves his home is putting himself or herself at risk of harm to protect the public.  Every time they approach a car or suspicious person, they are putting themselves at some risk.  Thankfully in most instances nothing happens.  But in some instances, a simple questioning of suspicious person results in getting killed when the person being approached is someone like Oswald.  A cold blooded killer in flight from assassinating the president.  Tippit didn't have to rush into a burning building to rescue a baby to be a hero.  He took a risk every time he left his home.   He used his skills as a police officer to identify a person acting suspiciously and did his job to question that person.  He paid for it with his life.  His actions led directly to the police closing in and arresting the assassin of the President.  Tippit will be remembered in the history books long after you are forgotten.