About as significant as the Authorized Permit for Autopsy Form - i.e., no significance at all if the issue is the precise time at which Tippit died.
I just think it adds to the general mirth of the discussion. Obviously, anyone who dies before placed in the ambulance is pretty well guaranteed to be DOA even if the ambulance trip took four hours. I doubt seriously that a form authorizing an autopsy is expected to specify the "date and time of death" with exactitude, as though the difference between 1:12, 1:15 or 1:18 would be of great significance to an autopsy performed at 3:15 PM.
Deja vu all over again: The exact same parties had this exact same discussion on this thread in 2024 (and probably 2022, 2020, 2018 ...):
https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php?topic=3968.126
No wonder I find the JFKA stuff sort of depressing. If not approached in the spirit of a Monty Python skit, it's scarcely any fun. I always accuse MTG of having a loop playing inside his head that recycles every couple of years, but really it's pretty much everyone.
About as significant as the Authorized Permit for Autopsy Form - i.e., no significance at all if the issue is the precise time at which Tippit died.The difference is that that Authorisation for Autopsy was written within 2 hours of the DOA declaration and based on information provided by the hospital.
The death certificated wasn't issued until November 29, 1963 and the information was provided for it by the funeral home.
I just think it adds to the general mirth of the discussion. Obviously, anyone who dies before placed in the ambulance is pretty well guaranteed to be DOA even if the ambulance trip took four hours. True, but in this case there is no evidence that Tippit was already dead at the scene, unless somebody from the funeral home is qualified to make that call while not even being at the scence.
Is it likely Tippit was dead after taking a bullet to the head and three in the chest? Sure... but they did try to revive him before declaring him DOA at 1:15 PM.
But if we accept that Tippit was already dead at the scene, it only means that he died at least three minutes before arriving at the hospital.
I doubt seriously that a form authorizing an autopsy is expected to specify the "date and time of death" with exactitude, as though the difference between 1:12, 1:15 or 1:18 would be of great significance to an autopsy performed at 3:15 PM.
I agree, but the fact remains that it does mention 1:15 PM for the DOA, which is also confirmed by Davenport. For the autopsy there is no significance, but for Oswald being able to shoot Tippit it is beyond significance. If he couldn't have been there, he had no opportunity to shoot Tippit.
