Lee Oswald The Cop Killer

[Gary Craig]

"On The Trail Of The Assassins"
by Jim Garrisson.

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"...The bullets found in Officer Tippit's body and the cartridges found
at the scene of his murder yielded further evidence of the frameup. The
Dallas coroner had conducted an autopsy on Tippit's body and had
removed four bullets from it. Three of them, it turned out, were
copper-coated and had been manufactured by the Winchester Western
company. The fourth, however, was a lead bullet made by the
Remington-Peters company

This was awfully strange, I thought, because bullets were never sold
in mixed lots. Gun users bought either a box of all Winchesters or one
of all Remingtons, but not some of each. The discovery of two different
makes of bullets in Tippit's body indicated to me and would indicate
to most experienced police officers a likelihood that two different
gunmen did the shooting. This was consistent with the eyewitness
testimony of Acquilla Clemons and Mr. and Mrs. Wright.

When a homicide occurs, it is standard operating procedure for the
police homicide division to send off the bullets and cartridges to the
F.B.I. Iaboratory in Washington, D.C. for study and possible identi-
fication of the gun that fired them. In this case, the Dallas homicide
unit, understandably shy about advertising the coroner's discovery,
sent only one bullet to the F.B.I. Iab, informing the Bureau that this
was the only bullet found in Tippit's body.

To everyone's surprise, the Bureau lab found that the bullet did not
match Oswald's revolver. When it discovered this oddity, the Warren
Commission was inspired to look for other bullets that might match
up better. Although the Commission never received a copy of Tippit's
autopsy report, somehow it found out that four bullets rather than
merely one had been found in Tippit's body. The ordinarily incu-
rious Commission asked the F.B.I. to inquire about the three missing
bullets, and they were found after four months gathering dust in
the files of the Dallas homicide division.

These bullets were sent to the F.B.I. Iab. But Special Agent Court-
landt Cunningham, the ballistics expert from the lab, testified before
the Commission that the lab was unable to conclude that any of the
four bullets found in Tippit's body had been fired by the revolver taken
from Lee Oswald..."

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[Bill Brown]

At the Tippit shooting scene, four shell casings were found.  Two of these were Remington-Peters and two were Winchester-Westerns.

Of the four bullets removed from Tippit's body, one was Remington-Peters and three were Winchester-Westerns.

There is a missing Winchester-Western shell and a missing Remington-Peters bullet.

Possible scenario:

It very well could be that Oswald fired five shots (instead of only the four which hit Tippit).  These five shots were two Remington-Peters and three Winchester-Westerns.  One Remington-Peters bullet was never found and one Winchester-Western shell was never found.

[Bill Brown]

Caught on tape...

550/2 (Sgt. G.L. Hill)

The shells at the scene indicate that the suspect is armed with an automatic 38, rather than a pistol.

Earlier on tape...

221 (Ptm. H.W. Summers)

Might can give you some additional information. I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man. That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven, a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand.

Mistakes happen.  Right?

If the killer was using an automatic weapon, why weren't the shells found near the patrol car, where the killer was standing when he fired the shots... instead of about one hundred feet away over at the corner?

[Jerry Freeman]

How come something is a 'mistake' only when it contradicts the official story?

[Bill Brown]

Not when they are stamped AUTO.

You mean those shells that Poe, Barnes, Dhority and Doughty could not identify under oath?

Not when they are stamped AUTO.

Okay.  So now all you have to do is show that these shells were stamped AUTO.

You mean those shells that Poe, Barnes, Dhority and Doughty could not identify under oath?

You better check again.  Odum showed the shells to Doughty and Dhority.  Dhority positively identified the shell he received from Virginia Davis.  Doughty positively identified the shell he received from Barbara Davis.  Odum also showed the shells to Barnes.  Barnes identified his marks on the other two shells.  Poe probably never placed his marks on the shells in the first place.

[Bill Brown]

How come something is a 'mistake' only when it contradicts the official story?

The real true physical evidence proves that a mistake was made when Hill radioed in that the shells found at the scene indicated that the gunman was armed with an automatic weapon.

The real true physical evidence proves that a mistake was made when Callaway told Patrolman Summers that the killer was armed with a dark-finish automatic pistol.

The real true physical evidence are the shells found at the scene.  These shells, all four of them, were not from an automatic weapon.  Hill even clearly admitted his mistake later, once he was more clear on the details surrounding the finding of the shells.  Callaway simply made a mistake in identifying a revolver as an automatic pistol.  He got the key points right, that the man was indeed Oswald and that Oswald was wearing a light Eisenhower-type jacket.

[Walt Cakebread]

The real true physical evidence proves that a mistake was made when Hill radioed in that the shells found at the scene indicated that the gunman was armed with an automatic weapon.

The real true physical evidence proves that a mistake was made when Callaway told Patrolman Summers that the killer was armed with a dark-finish automatic pistol.

The real true physical evidence are the shells found at the scene.  These shells, all four of them, were not from an automatic weapon.  Hill even clearly admitted his mistake later, once he was more clear on the details surrounding the finding of the shells.  Callaway simply made a mistake in identifying a revolver as an automatic pistol.  He got the key points right, that the man was indeed Oswald and that Oswald was wearing a light Eisenhower-type jacket.

Callaway was familiar with hand guns ( as he testified) so he would recognize a gun......But he was not familiar with Lee Oswald .....so there's no way he could identify the man with the dark- finish automatic pistol as Lee Oswald.