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Tippit shooting: How to approach a murder suspect ...
J?rn Frending:
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Answering Dan:
Yes, it was a personal thing, kind of "stay away from my wife" situation, and then " You asked for it - let's settle this now" ...
If it was not personal, the suspect could just have run down the alley out of sight, "nothing to see here, move on" ...
Richard Smith:
--- Quote from: J?rn Frending on May 22, 2018, 11:32:52 PM ---Tippit was a ww2 parachuting veteran with 10 years of experience as a police officer in Dallas.
He is approaching a murder suspect who matches the description broadcast to him on radio.
However, he approaches the man keeping his gun IN THE HOLSTER and drives up TO THE SIDE of the man STAYING BEHIND the steering wheel engaging in a friendly conversation NOT asking him to KEEP HIS HANDS where he can see them. He does not even find it convenient to INFORM THE DISPATCHER of his intentions.
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We will never know with certainty what drew Tippit's attention to Oswald. Oswald likely did something that appeared suspicious to him. There is no reason to believe Tippit stopped to talk with every male who matched the description of the assassin. Thus, he was not approaching "a murder suspect" at the time but just someone who had attracted his attention. And he decided to check it out. Not unlike what drew Brewer's attention a short while later, it's likely Oswald tried to make himself inconspicuous when he saw a police car and Tippit recognized that as suspect behavior.
Jerry Freeman:
--- Quote from: J?rn Frending on May 23, 2018, 12:27:19 AM ---I started this topic because in another thread someone claimed that a .38 auto is the same as a .380 which is of course not true but to my astonishment nobody protested about it.
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So what?
A .380 ACP was fired from hammer-less pistols.
Either that or a .38 [automatic Colt pistol] is probably what Tippit was shot with [not by Oswald]
That Tippit 'approached a murder suspect' is a theory based on nothing.
J?rn Frending:
--- Quote from: Walt Cakebread on May 23, 2018, 12:30:59 AM ---Do ya think that Tippit was drunk?
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Hello Walt ...
Yes, whatever would make him fearless ... But being furious could have the same effect ... And it may well be so for those of us who have read about Tipper's "race" prior to this, but that's another story ...
I'm pleased to see that you seem to be well and do still keep people occupied on the forum ... (Smile)
Jerry Freeman:
--- Quote from: Walt Cakebread on May 23, 2018, 12:30:59 AM ---Do ya think that Tippit was drunk?
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Somebody was.
Because I read earlier that Tippit had made a phone call from a record store at the same time..he was getting shot!
Practically....
--- Quote --- 1:11:00 Top Ten Record shop owner J.W. Stark and clerk Louis Cortinas claim that Tippit came into the store on West Jefferson and made a phone call at this time. Getting no answer, Tippit reportedly left heading north to Sunset, then east. Helen Markham leaves her residence to catch a bus at Patton and Jefferson.
1:13:00 p.m. Jimmy Burt and William Smith talk in the front yard of 505 East Tenth. Burt spots a man, believed to be Oswald, across the street walking west.
1:14:00 p.m. Helen Markham reaches the corner of Tenth and Patton and waits for traffic to pass, including Tippit's squad car headed east. She sees Tippit stop alongside Oswald, who is walking east.
1:14:20 p.m. Jack Tatum, driving west on Tenth, passes Tippit's squad car. Oswald, standing on the passenger side of Tippit's car, is leaning down talking to Tippit through the open vent window with both hands in his zipper jacket.
1:14:30 p.m. Oswald pulls a gun from under his jacket and shoots Tippit four times. He escapes headed south on Patton toward Jefferson, as Barbara and Virginia Davis watch.
1:18:59 p.m. An ambulance arrives at the Tippit shooting scene. Several citizens help attendants load Tippit's body. They depart within a minute.
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https://www.jdtippit.com/timetable_nov.htm
Notice how it all comes down to precisely the nearest second? ::)
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