Who Killed J.D. Tippit?

[Andrew Mason]

If the extractor thingy wasn’t working too well, something similar to the firing pin of this revolver  being rusty, would the shells be difficult to shake out?

Presuming the shells probably are not so hot that they could be held all together in the palm of the hand without discomfort or burning the hand, and the Extractor wasn’t working and the shells were stuck and weren’t falling out , then the only thing left to do would be to remove each shell one at a time.

However, it still seems a bit odd to throw the shells on the ground while in view of the witnesses , when the shells could have been placed in the pocket temporarily until the shooter left the scene, thus not leaving incriminating evidence at the scene.

Could they determine the exact type of round just from the  lead projectile fragments found in Tippet, without having found the shells?

Oswald was not planning on being caught. The shells are evidence only if they have his gun.

Oswald has a bit of a history of not really thinking about those kind of things.  Just like giving up his US citizenship to move to Russia.  Or burying his rifle at the scene of the Walker shooting - a simple canine search would have found it.  Or leaving his rifle in the TSBD - maybe thinking that it could not possibly be traced to him since he used an alias Alec J. Hidell.....

[Mitch Todd]

Wonderful!!    So is the above action the action that was described by the witnesses??    I don't believe it is....I believe they were describing the action of emptying the shells ONE AT A TIME and tossing the shells away as he walked away.

The point is that you can unload an S&W revolver one case at a time. In some circumstances, like a stuck case or a case whose rim has slipped over the ejector star, you have to.

[Mitch Todd]

If the extractor thingy wasn’t working too well, something similar to the firing pin of this revolver  being rusty, would the shells be difficult to shake out?

Presuming the shells probably are not so hot that they could be held all together in the palm of the hand without discomfort or burning the hand, and the Extractor wasn’t working and the shells were stuck and weren’t falling out , then the only thing left to do would be to remove each shell one at a time.

However, it still seems a bit odd to throw the shells on the ground while in view of the witnesses , when the shells could have been placed in the pocket temporarily until the shooter left the scene, thus not leaving incriminating evidence at the scene.

Could they determine the exact type of round just from the  lead projectile fragments found in Tippet, without having found the shells?

FWIR, they can usually identify the diameter of the bullet to within a few thousandths of an inch, if it's intact around its circumference. They might also be able to get the number of grooves, grove direction, and rifling rate. That can tell you a lot about what weapon fired the bullet, though it can't tell you what individual gun it was.

[Mitch Todd]

I believe all of your questions about the emptying the spent shells from "Oswald's " gun were answered by the FBI man who testified before LBJ's " Special Select Blue Ribbon Committee "  ie "The Warren Commission".

That FBI man knew that "Oswald's gun" was NOT the murder weapon.

Having exhausted all other lines of argument to no avail, Walt develops clairvoyance and reads the minds of dead men.

[Mike Orr]

    As per the Education Forum : Jim Marr's comments on the James Files story: Has any of it been debunked ? and as told by Files , the killer of J.D. Tippit was a man who Files knew and was a good friend of , and that person was Gary Eugene Marlow " The Raven " . Files had never given out the name of Gary Eugene Marlow until Marlow passed away . David Atlee Phillips ( Maurice Bishop ) was the handler for Files and Marlow . Joe West was a lawyer who was working on getting JFK's body exhumed . Files used a Remington Fireball XP 100 and the round that he hit JFK in the temple with was a special round that contained mercury . The mercury round would have left traces of mercury in JFK's head and Files had told Joe West about the mercury in the one round he used on JFK . After Joe West had surgery a few weeks later which was a success , it was found that his medicine actually had been tampered with and West died and so did the possibility of exhuming JFK's body .

[Walt Cakebread]

Having exhausted all other lines of argument to no avail, Walt develops clairvoyance and reads the minds of dead men.

Cunningham KNEW that anybody who dumped the shells from a S&W into his hand would be contaminated by the gunpowder residue......He also knew that Lee Oswald had NO gunpowder residue on his hand.....

[John Mytton]

Cunningham KNEW that anybody who dumped the shells from a S&W into his hand would be contaminated by the gunpowder residue......He also knew that Lee Oswald had NO gunpowder residue on his hand.....

JohnM