Who Killed J.D. Tippit?

[Tom Scully]

But Witherspoon did not live on Tenth Street.  In fact, she lived nowhere near the vicinity of Tenth and Patton.  Not even close.

According to the 1964 Polk's Dallas City Directory, Witherspoon lived in the 2500 block of South Tyler, over thirty blocks from Tenth and Patton.  Also, Witherspoon confirmed this in a 1983 interview with author Dale Myers.

https://ia800908.us.archive.org/28/items/nsia-PerryDave/nsia-PerryDave/Perry%20David%20B%2075.pdf



With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J. D. Tippit
By Dale K. Myers

[Alan Ford]

From With Malice:

"Tippit's relationship with the waitress came to a sudden end in September 1963, when the woman quit her job at Austin's Barbecue and resumed living with her ex-husband."

Hmm......................................

[Alan Ford]

From With Malice:

"Tippit's relationship with the waitress came to a sudden end in September 1963, when the woman quit her job at Austin's Barbecue and resumed living with her ex-husband."

Hmm......................................

In June 1964, said waitress gives birth to a baby.

June 1964: nine months after September 1963.

[Alan Ford]

In June 1964, said waitress gives birth to a baby.

June 1964: nine months after September 1963.

Also from the document to which Mr. Scully linked:



[Witherspoon = Mrs. Johnnie Maxie Witherspoon, waitress, who told HSCA she had an affair with Officer Tippit 1961-63]

[Bill Brown]

Zeon Mason, John Iacoletti and Martin Weidmann...

The three of you are in denial.  The only person on earth who was present when Oswald left the rooming house said he was zipping up a jacket as he went out the door.

If I were an Oswald defender at any cost, I'd deny this fact, too, because I know what it means; that Oswald ditched the jacket between the rooming house on Beckley and the shoe store on Jefferson.

"He got a jacket and put it on; it was kind of a zipper jacket.  He was zipping it up as he went out the door." -- Earlene Roberts (Warren Commission testimony)

Mr. BREWER - And had brown hair. He had a brown sports shirt on. His shirt tail was out.
Mr. BELIN - Any jacket?
Mr. BREWER - No.

[Alan Ford]

The only person on earth who was present when Oswald left the rooming house said he was zipping up a jacket as he went out the door.

If I were an Oswald defender at any cost, I'd deny this fact, too, because I know what it means; that Oswald ditched the jacket between the rooming house on Beckley and the shoe store on Jefferson.

'The only person on earth who was present when Oswald left the rooming house said he was zipping up a dark jacket as he went out the door.

'If I were an Oswald accuser at any cost, I'd deny this fact, too, because I know what it means; that the jacket wasn't the one allegedly found in the parking lot. Oswald must have worn his dark jacket into the Texas Theatre and taken it off in there.'

[Alan Ford]

Is there any way of making this kind of scenario work if we simply push the time of the Brewer shoe store sighting back to the original ~1:35 pm?

Thus: Mr. Oswald goes to TT (purchasing a ticket) quite a ways before that time. He tries to find his contact. No success. His anxiety rising, he exits the cinema (perhaps to look for a phone?). Cop-car activity alarms him--so he ducks into the shoe store lobby and slips back into the TT. He's only been gone a minute or so. When he's arrested, Mrs. Postal recognizes him as someone who bought a ticket well before the Brewer sighting: she is mystified.

Given the early timestamps which Messrs. Burroughs & Davis put on Mr. Oswald's presence in the cinema, there seems no other way of making Mr. Oswald the man seen by Mr. Brewer

In 1963, Mr. Jones Harris (a friend of Mrs. Kennedy's press secretary Mrs. Pamela Turnure) spoke with Mrs. Postal in Dallas. When he asked her if she had sold Mr. Oswald a ticket, she burst into tears and left the room. When he shortly thereafter asked her a second time, she---------------burst into tears and left the room