JFK Assassination Forum

There is no great mystery about the Tippit encounter.  Tippit was an experienced police officer.  Oswald had just assassinated the president.  He was the most sought-after criminal in the world.  For all Oswald knew, by the time he sees Tippit's car he has already been identified as a potential suspect.  He knows the FBI has been keeping track of him.  A police officer has already pulled a gun on him.  He is missing from the scene.  Witnesses may have seen him fire the shot etc.  He has good cause to be paranoid.  Enter Tippit in a random encounter.  Oswald does something that makes him suspicious.   Maybe he does a sudden about face when he sees Tippit's car.  Whatever it is it draws Tippit's attention to him.  So he stops to check it out.  Oswald won't identify himself to Tippit because he might already be a wanted man.  He tries to bullshit his way out of this but that doesn't satisfy Tippit.  When he gets out of the car, Oswald thinks it is now or never.  So he kills him while he has the chance and makes a run for it.

Woodrow Wilson after his stroke. His wife became the de facto POTUS.

Jill was the de facto POTUS for four years.

The distances being travelled were not very far, you make out like they were trying to climb Everest!

By taking the following path from Haywood's bike to the first time he's seen in Darnell, is at the most about 60-70 yards.



And the distance for Walthers to basically walk down and cross the road was about the same. If the time stamp was less than 12:37 then we might have trouble but every established event happened in chronological order and with enough time between to account for travelling!



Mr. WALTHERS. And at that time I heard the shots as well as everybody else, but as we got over this fence, and a lot of officers and people were just rummaging through the train yards back in this parking area.
Mr. LIEBELER. In the parking area down there? West of the Texas School Book Depository Building between the Texas School Book Depository and the railroad tracks?
Mr. WALTHERS. Yes; and the discussion came up among several of the officers, "Were there any shots fired?" And I said, "Well, they sounded like rifle shots to me." At the time no one knew---in our crowd they were sure the shots had been fired though because of the reports---we heard the noise, and I left then and went back up here and came back onto the street.
Mr. LIEBELER. Up on Elm Street?
Mr. WALTHERS. And went over on this grassy area right in here [indicating].
Mr. LIEBELER. Between Elm Street and Main Street?
Mr. WALTHERS. Between Elm and Main and starting to looking at the grass to see if some shots had been fired and some of them might have chugged into this turf here and it would give an indication if some had really been, if they were really shots and not just blanks or something, and a man, and I couldn't tell you his name if my life depended on it---he had a car parked right here in Main Street---in the Main Street lane headed east, just under this underpass.

And as seen everyone was walking with some pace, it wasn't a Mother's meeting, they all were trying to find something, anything! But alas there was nothing to be found because all the action happened on the 6th floor of the TSBD and this is supported by ALL the evidence from the ballistic evidence through to the medical evidence.



JohnM

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Verily, there was a lack up of investigative follow-up on many credible witnesses who described the last two shots as nearly "simultaneous," such Dallas Sheriff Seymour Weitzman, or Secret Service agent Kellerman, and several others.

Same, why did no one ever ask Gov JBC, "What do you mean, you were shot at by 'automatic' weapons? That is entirely inconsistent with what we theorize what happened, that a lone gunsel with a single-shot-per-bolt-action rifle perped the JFKA."

I suspect JBC meant that the assassin(s) were armed with an automatic rifle, but toggled to one shot per trigger squeeze mode. But no one at either the WC or HSCA clarified that. By all accounts, JBC was a smart guy, head screwed on tight. Seems odd JBC would use the expression "automatic" rifle. Connally served in WWII on the flight deck of aircraft carriers, so I assume he had some sort of working knowledge of firearms. JBC is reported to have been an avid sport game hunter as well.

It requires a large suspension of disbelief to accept the LNT-SBT with a single-shot-per-bolt-action rifle narrative.