Lee Oswald The Cop Killer

[Jerry Freeman]

Please show your work which made you determine that Oswald could not have hit Tippit with gun shots from across the hood.

Here is the generally accepted story---

Officer J.D. Tippit was shot and killed while questioning the assassin of President John F. Kennedy at Tenth and Patton Streets.

At approximately 1:14 pm, 45 minutes after President Kennedy was shot, Officer Tippit stopped the suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was on foot and fit the general description of the assassin that was being broadcast by the Dallas police radio.

After being summoned by Officer Tippit, Oswald came over to the passenger side of the patrol car where they spoke through an open window. After a brief conversation, Officer Tippit got out of his car and as he was walking toward the front of his patrol car, Oswald suddenly shot him three times at point blank range with a .38 caliber revolver. After Officer Tippit fell, he was shot in the head by Oswald, which proved to be the fatal shot.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/13338-officer-j-d-tippit

Presents the questions...Over the hood? Why wouldn't Tippit have even tried to duck? Over the hood of a patrol car...is that really point blank? Point blank is more like how the LA county sheriff's deputies were shot this week.
How can someone shoot someone who has fallen... in the head ...over the hood of a car?

So Sorry!....   Wish I could educate a door knob....... But I recognize that some things are impossible.

Can't help but notice that you came back to try once more anyway.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Here is an excellent lecture by Dr. Don Thomas on the Tippit shooting and on some of the evidence that the WC ignored about the event--it's only 34 minutes long:

"The Tippit Murder: Rosetta Stone to the Warren Commission Cover-Up"

[Walt Cakebread]

Here is an excellent lecture by Dr. Don Thomas on the Tippit shooting and on some of the evidence that the WC ignored about the event--it's only 34 minutes long:

"The Tippit Murder: Rosetta Stone to the Warren Commission Cover-Up"

What a horrible presentation!.....  It's filled with non facts, WAG's and simply BS.......

[Michael T. Griffith]

All this talk about the Tippit shooting prompted me to revise and expand my article on the subject, which is my long reply to Dale Myers' book With Malice. Since I added pictures to the article, I converted it to PDF format. Here's the new link:

https://miketgriffith.com/files/malice.pdf

[Bill Chapman]

$13 in pocket = he didn't think he would get away = no escape plan = survival instinct kicks in = hey, why not give it a shot = bumps into dumb & dumber downstairs = buh-bye suckers = still famous after all these years = smirk
 

[Michael T. Griffith]

$13 in pocket = no escape plan = he didn't think he would get away = survival instinct kicks in = hey, why not give it a shot = bumps into dumb & dumber downstairs = buh, bye suckers = still famous after all these years = smirk

Do you even pause to consider the logic of your statements before you make them?

If he didn't think he would get away, why would he have taken the time to hide the rifle so carefully? (As Dr. Wrone notes, whoever hid the rifle had to climb over a wall of boxes to get to the spot where the rifle was hidden.)

This is not to mention that none of the people who were near or on the stairs when Oswald would have had to come flying down them saw or heard anyone on the stairs. Roy Truly was running well ahead of Baker, and he didn't see Oswald on the stairs or near the vestibule door.

Moving to the Tippit scene, the first and firm reports of the gun used said it was an automatic, based on the shells found at the scene, and it's very easy to distinguish between automatic shells and revolver shells. The fingerprints that Tippit's killer left near his window turned out *not* to be Oswald's. Two witnesses independently put Oswald at the Texas Theater during the Tippit shooting. The weight of the evidence clearly shows that Tippit was shot no later than 1:10, probably at 1:09, just after Tippit signaled the dispatcher that he was getting out of his car, but Oswald, even if he had speed walked, could not have arrived at the scene until 1:14 at the absolute earliest.

I discuss these and other facts in my revised and expanded article on the Tippit shooting:

https://miketgriffith.com/files/malice.pdf

[John Iacoletti]

Weeks later, Benavides's brother was shot--in mistake for him, according to Benavides and his father-in-law.

Edward Benavides was shot in February 1965.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Edward Benavides was shot in February 1965. [Death certificate snipped]

I'll have to check on this. I know that Domingo and his father-in-law did say they believed that Eddie was killed in mistake for Domingo. Even Myers admits this. And it was in fact after Edward's death that Domingo changed his story and said he was certain the shooter was Oswald. Before his brother's death, he never made a positive identification (Myers admits that Domingo told his boss he did not get a good look at the gunman).

If the death certificate checks out, I'll revise the text in Hasty Judgment to correct the month and year of death and to observe that Domingo did not claim he was certain the gunman was Oswald until after Edward's death.