Podcast On Tippit

[Martin Weidmann]

I think deep down inside you know Oswald is guilty of the Tippit murder but you can't bring yourself to admit it lest your whole internal world come crashing down.

Actually, I couldn't care less if he did or didn't.

If you show me conclusive evidence of his guilt, I'll gladly consider him to be guilty.
But when evidence is misrepresented, ignored and dismissed out of hand, you have to give the suspect the benefit of the doubt.

[Martin Weidmann]

After watching a police officer be murdered in broad daylight right in front of you, would you "simply carry on walking"

You are missing the point.

At least a minute or so passed between Tippit passing the 10th and Patton crossing (where Markham stopped walking to let him pass by) and being shot.
Now, why would Markham stay there for at least a minute after Tippit's car had passed, when she needed to get to the bus stop.

[Bill Brown]

I think deep down inside you know Oswald is innocent of the Tippit murder but you can't bring yourself to admit it lest your whole internal world come crashing down.

Ha ha
Yep.  You got me.

[Bill Brown]

Bill,

I like the part where you point out that fibers matching the shirt Oswald was arrested in were found in the jacket discovered under the car at the gas station, the fact that Earlene Roberts said Oswald zipped up his "short coat" when he left -- i.e., his brownish-red (or reddish-brown?) button-up long-sleeved shirt couldn't have been confused with his zip-up jacket or vice-versa -- and the fact that it makes perfect sense that Oswald, having killed Tippit a couple of minutes earlier, would jettison his jacket at or behind the gas station in an attempt to alter his appearance.

I also like the fact that witnesses' conflicting descriptions of the direction Oswald was walking before Tippit stopped him can be explained by the following scenario:

He had a still-valid bus transfer and he hoped to catch a bus to the VA Hospital (and from there a Greyhound bus to Laredo) and therefore he walked past 10th and Patton towards the bus stop on Marsalis until he came around a curve in the road and saw a County Police car parked a block away, so he turned around and started walking back towards 10th and Patton for his unexpected rendezvous with Officer Tippit.

-- Tom

Thanks Tom.

When it comes to where Oswald was heading after leaving the rooming house, all we can do is speculate.  May as well try.
But, when we do, we must speculate based on what we know; "educated speculation", if you will.

[Sean Kneringer]

For the people who think Tippit was assigned to eliminate Oswald, how did he know where to find him? Are we to believe that he just drove around until he spotted him on 10th? How did he know Oswald was walking about in the neighborhood instead of holed up inside somewhere?

[Tommy Shanks]

For the people who think Tippit was assigned to eliminate Oswald, how did he know where to find him? Are we to believe that he just drove around until he spotted him on 10th? How did he know Oswald was walking about in the neighborhood instead of holed up inside somewhere?

Great point. So many aspects of these conspiracy theories fall apart under the slightest bit of critical thinking.

[John Corbett]

I think deep down inside you know Oswald is innocent of the Tippit murder but you can't bring yourself to admit it lest your whole internal world come crashing down.

Explain how Oswald could be innocent when about a dozen witnesses either saw him shoot Tippit or saw him leaving the scene with a gun in his hand and he was arrested a short time later with the Tippit murder weapon in his possession. In what Bizarro universe is such a thing even possible.