Who Killed J.D. Tippit?

[John Iacoletti]

"Richard" exhibits weird behavior every day on this forum.  Nobody bases a murder accusation on that.

PS:  "gun carried by Oswald".  LOL

[Mitch Todd]

Do you actually believe hat Tippit's killer was using an old worn out 38 caliber S&W with a 2 inch barrel and he could hit Tippit in the chest area?    Think about it??    .

Tippit was shot from ~6 ft away. The shooter could have comfortably hit him rapidfire with a pop gun at that range.

[Mitch Todd]

Why dump the shells at all.
Why not get the F out of Dodge and then dump them.
I never quite understood that.
It doesn't have any bearing on who the shooter was, it just seems weird (to me, at least).

I imagine that the gunman would quickly come to the conclusion he needed to reload ASAP before anyone decided to jump him.

Or in case anyone else was nearby with a firearm of their own. Texas has something of a rep for being Texas, after all.

And why keep fired cartridges in your pocket? They don't help you escape, and are evidence that you fired the pistol that your carrying since (at least) you put your pants/jacket/shirt on.

[Dan O'meara]

I imagine that the gunman would quickly come to the conclusion he needed to reload ASAP before anyone decided to jump him.

Or in case anyone else was nearby with a firearm of their own. Texas has something of a rep for being Texas, after all.

And why keep fired cartridges in your pocket? They don't help you escape, and are evidence that you fired the pistol that your carrying since (at least) you put your pants/jacket/shirt on.

Texas has something of a rep for being Texas, after all.

Fair point.

[Walt Cakebread]

Why dump the shells at all.
Why not get the F out of Dodge and then dump them.
I never quite understood that.
It doesn't have any bearing on who the shooter was, it just seems weird (to me, at least).

You've raised some very interesting points Mr O.       

The guy acted as if he wanted to be seen....    And apparently he did resemble Lee Oswald  ( that may be the reason he Sauntered away and casually remove the shells from his pistol  ONE SHELL AT A TIME.  It's possible that he was discarding spent shells that had been fired from Lee's ??  .38 S&W at some previous time.

Your observation is quite astute, Mr O'meara.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

I imagine that the gunman would quickly come to the conclusion he needed to reload ASAP before anyone decided to jump him.

Or in case anyone else was nearby with a firearm of their own. Texas has something of a rep for being Texas, after all.

And why keep fired cartridges in your pocket? They don't help you escape, and are evidence that you fired the pistol that your carrying since (at least) you put your pants/jacket/shirt on.

It is kind of interesting that we don't have any evidence (I don't think?) of anyone brandishing a revolver/gun during all of this chaos. Not in Dealey Plaza - none of the people running up the knoll or to the overpass appeared to be carrying. And in the Tippit shooting Callaway picked up Tippit's revolver in an attempt to chase the gunman down. None of the people came out with a revolver, none of the men driving around had one. I would guess that would be different today.

As to the cartridges/shells: Whoever the shooter was (I would suggest it was Oswald; but you know how us lone nutter sheeple are) appeared more worried about someone going after him then "getting away." He just shot an officer in the middle of the street, with people all around. I don't think he's worried about hiding evidence; he's trying to get out of Dodge.

[John Iacoletti]

As to the cartridges/shells: Whoever the shooter was (I would suggest it was Oswald; but you know how us lone nutter sheeple are) appeared more worried about someone going after him then "getting away." He just shot an officer in the middle of the street, with people all around. I don't think he's worried about hiding evidence; he's trying to get out of Dodge.

That must be why he stopped to look at Markham, stopped to look and smile at the Davises, stopped to "fool with his gun", and then only trotted "not real fast" down Patton.