New Research on the Tippit Case Points *Away* from Oswald as the Shooter

[Bill Brown]

So we have multiple photos taken at the scene showing the window on the car was up not down and it's still not enough.

You cannot reason with the conspiracy mind. We think if somehow we re-word our answers, select the right phrases, explain it another way, that something will connect. It rarely does.

There are reasonable JFK conspiracy believers - some very smart, smarter than me - and unreasonable believers. It's things like this that distinguish between the two.

Well said.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Of course Markham believed the window was down since she had just watch the two men converse; one inside the car and the other standing outside the car.  You really don't understand this?

The vent window was open. You really don't understand this?

I see you're dancing around the fact that Markham said the killer touched the car while speaking with Tippit, quibbling by inferring that she must have described a different spot than where they found the fingerprints. Yes, of course.

Again, if those prints had turned out to be Oswald's, we both know you would be citing this as hard evidence of Oswald's guilt.

[Bill Brown]

The vent window was open. You really don't understand this?

I see you're dancing around the fact that Markham said the killer touched the car while speaking with Tippit, quibbling by inferring that she must have described a different spot than where they found the fingerprints. Yes, of course.

Again, if those prints had turned out to be Oswald's, we both know you would be citing this as hard evidence of Oswald's guilt.

The vent window was open. You really don't understand this?

But... That is NOT what Markham said.  Right?  Take your time.

[Bill Brown]

• A murder weapon of the caliber used to kill Tippit was found abandoned in a downtown street of Dallas in the early morning hours of Sat Nov 23, 1963, hours after the murder of Tippit, and turned in to the Dallas Police that morning--a .38 Special revolver found with an apple and orange in a paper bag by a street curb, evidently tossed from a moving car.

A revolver was found in a brown paper sack nowhere near Dealey Plaza and certainly nowhere near Oak Cliff.  What makes this revolver a "murder weapon"?  How is it evident that the revolver was "tossed from a moving car"?  A lot of assumptions here.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Buried in one of Dale Myers' endnotes is the fact that a key witness to the Tippit shooting, William Smith, initially said the killer was not Oswald (p. 615 n 390). An anonymous person informed the FBI that Smith had been at the Tippit scene, that he'd seen the killer, and that Smith had said the man was "not Oswald." Like some other witnesses, when Smith was questioned by the FBI, he changed his tune and gave a story more in keeping with the lone-gunman scenario.

Smith told the FBI he initially did not think the gunman was Oswald because when he first saw Oswald on TV after the assassination it looked like Oswald had light-colored hair. This strikes me as a dubious explanation for Smith's change of story. I've watched all of the post-assassination TV footage of Oswald, and I would invite anyone to find a clip from that footage in which Oswald seems to have light-colored hair.

Of course, Smith might not have said this--we have only the word of the FBI agent who interviewed him that he in fact gave this explanation. Numerous witnesses complained that the FBI agents who interviewed them misrepresented what they said or only mentioned selected parts of their accounts. This is not to say that all FBI agents did this, but we know that some did.

Furthermore, what about the killer's facial features, and his height, weight, and so forth? Given the fact that Smith got a good look at the killer, one would think he should have been able to base his initial opinion on more than just the appearance of hair on a black-and-white TV screen.

[Mitch Todd]

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Smith told the FBI he initially did not think the gunman was Oswald because when he first saw Oswald on TV after the assassination it looked like Oswald had light-colored hair. This strikes me as a dubious explanation for Smith's change of story. I've watched all of the post-assassination TV footage of Oswald, and I would invite anyone to find a clip from that footage in which Oswald seems to have light-colored hair.

I'll leave obvious optical illusions to others, but I will ask, is the dress below white with gold accents or blue with black accents?