Tippit shooting: How to approach a murder suspect ...

[Bill Brown]

Bill , when you say "myth."  Didn't happen  ,  referring to what J.D. Tippit might have said to his son on that fateful Friday !  Where did you get that information ?

In 2004, Allen Tippit himself told Dale Myers that the supposed conversation never took place.

Why are so many conspiracy advocates so eager to perpetuate lies drummed up by dishonest authors desperate to sell books?

[Jerry Freeman]

How did Oswald get to that area so quickly, if he wasn't helped?

Who hasn't seen that video "Could Oswald have walked it?"
These guys had an agenda.
We have a cop to kill so let's make it happen. March march march- bang.
Forget about where in hell he might be headed...why in hell he headed there.... Time for reaction calling out on the squad radio etc.
And then a pronouncement of a man's death all in 25 minutes.
Convinced?

[Howard Gee]

Who hasn't seen that video "Could Oswald have walked it?"
These guys had an agenda.
We have a cop to kill so let's make it happen. March march march- bang.
Forget about where in hell he might be headed...why in hell he headed there.... Time for reaction calling out on the squad radio etc.
And then a pronouncement of a man's death all in 25 minutes.
Convinced?

Yeah they had an agenda - finding out if Oswald could have walked it.

Too bad you don't like the answer.

Where he was headed  and why he was heading there isn't germaine to the central question of could he have walked to the scene of the JDT murder in time to do the deed.

[Jerry Freeman]

So Oswald's agenda was to get there as fast as he could and shoot a cop...OK

[Howard Gee]

YOU were the one that claimed the producers of the 'Could he have walked it' had an agenda.

"Who hasn't seen that video "Could Oswald have walked it?"
These guys had an agenda."

Sound familiar ?
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No one said anything about Saint Oz having an agenda to murder JDT.

Of course, that's what he wound up doing, but it wasn't planned.

[John Iacoletti]

Cop, for whatever reason, decides to stop suspect and talk to him.

Cop asks a few 'cop questions' such as 'where are you coming from/going to'.

Cop, for whatever reason, isn't entirely satisfied. Maybe the suspect seems jittery or the suspect is a wiseass, or tells the cop he's going shoe shopping for his daughter, or to see a movie. Doesn't matter.

Cop decides he's going to get out of his patrol car, search suspect, get ID.

Cop SHOULD have told suspect not to move and to keep his hands where they can be seen.

Suspect knows once Cop finds his weapon he's going to be detained and possibly arrested.

Cop, as he is exiting his vehicle, doesn't keep constant attention on suspect allowing suspect to get the drop on him.

Cop gets no further than the front fender of his vehicle when suspect unloads on him from less than 10 feet away.

Poor dumb cop.

Cool story, bro.

[John Iacoletti]

That's exactly what happened.  We will never know with certainty what drew Tippit's attention to Oswald but we know that Brewer found him suspicious as well.  I don't believe Tippit stopped Oswald because he necessarily had any cause to associate him with the assassination per se.  He just found something about his behavior suspect and thought it worth checking out.  Whatever Oswald said didn't satisfy him and he steps out to further investigation.  Oswald has no idea at this point whether he has been identified as a suspect.   He can't risk identifying himself to a police officer.  So he either has to play this out and risk arrest or make his move while he can.

Why didn't he just show the cop the "Hidell" ID that he allegedly had on him?