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...So that’s how I approach JFKA claims and narratives. First and foremost, from the level of “Does this make any sense?” Does it have real-world plausibility? Does it reflect who the supposed participants really were, or have they been reinvented to fit the narrative? Does it fly in the face of better evidence and a simpler, more plausible narrative? When the answer to all of these questions is in the negative, I consign the claim or narrative to the lunatic fringe. In my experience, those in the lunatic fringe ignore all the threshold questions and leap directly into “connecting all the dots,” losing sight of the fact that the claim or narrative makes no sense or is wildly improbable; this is the conspiratorial love of complexity that Tom Bethell and the Dutch psychoanalyst talk about. Eventually, the claim or narrative takes on a cult-like life of its own.
With Tippit, we have a pretty straightforward narrative that extends from Oswald going to his room and getting his revolver to being arrested at the theater with his revolver. What is the raw likelihood that there was some incredible intervening event that either had nothing to do with Oswald, his revolver and the JFKA (i.e., Tippit was murdered for unrelated reasons) or was somehow part of a plot to either eliminate Oswald or further frame him? The JFKA itself framed him about as thoroughly as he could be framed. If the plot was to eliminate him, then why didn’t whomever shot Tippit just shoot Oswald (or shoot Oswald after Oswald shot Tippit)? I have a near-impossible time getting past the “What sense does this make?” question.
At one time, specifically in regard to the questions being raised about Craford in connection with Tippit, I researched him as best I could, all the way up to his death many years later. He was a complete nobody all his life. He was about as much a hitman as my grandmother and about as unlikely a Tippit assassin as one could imagine. Does his departure from Dallas look anything like a hitman on the run? Does the rest of his obscure life look like someone who had any connection to the JFKA or a hit on a policeman? In all the various scenarios into which he is plugged, all that I can see he has going for him is that he vaguely resembled Oswald and had some connection to Ruby.
The Tippit murder was a wholly unexpected, traumatic event with a chaotic aftermath. It isn’t surprising that there are conflicting witness statements and loose threads. Greg has assembled a number of items of reasonable doubt (with respect to those items) and an alternative scenario, just as he has alternative scenarios for the Walker attempt, the Furniture Mart visit and other aspects of the JFKA. They all seem to me to be creative brainstorming that was intended from the get-go to articulate an alternative scenario – and that’s fine because it’s kind of fun, but they do all seem to exemplify the conspiratorial love of complexity. Add them all together, and I say “Impossible, just flat impossible for me to believe the orthodox narrative and the hard evidence supporting it is wrong in that many respects.” I won’t use the phrase “lunatic fringe” because Greg has put a lot of original work into these scenarios and he does seem to acknowledge that he is somewhat “thinking out loud” and merely “suggesting,” as opposed to the aggressive sales job that MTG tries to do.
If there was “something more” to the Tippit shooting, my guess would be that the shooting itself took place as described in the orthodox narrative and the “something more” is to be found in (1) Tippit’s alleged actions in the time before he encountered Oswald and/or (2) the “why” questions that John Corbett chides me for even considering – Why the hell did Tippit stop Oswald? If Tippit thought there was anything suspicious, especially related to the JFKA, why the hell didn’t he take better precautions? Why the hell did Oswald completely short-circuit his escape and make things a hundred times worse for himself by immediately shooting Tippit in front of multiple witnesses?
Wow, 1,267 words. I have written almost three books already this morning! I am the Leo Tolstoy of JFKA forums!

Lance, I slept very little and spent too much time reading and thinking about posts on this forum I wanted to respond to.
To preserve my stream of thoughts, I'm going to reply initially to the portion of your post I am quoting. Later today or tomorrow I will refine it and edit in supporting
cites.
The three that the Oswald, Tippit convergence timeline depended on demonstrated unreliable recall of time between when the housekeeper claimed Oswald came and went after his alleged ride in Whaley's taxi. BTW, I proved Whaley set his birthdate back 3 years sometime in the 1930's, yet he corrected the Chief Justice's
minor discrepancy regarding how long Whaley had been driving a cab.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13730776/william_wayne-whaley/photo
The Johnson couple who owned the boarding house both stated the DPD arrived at least an hour earlier than the detectives reported that they had.
Gladys Johnson and her husband recalled them arriving around 2:00 pm while the housekeeper fixed the arrival time closer to 1:30. Detective Potts testified
to coming in on his day off and the steps between learning of the JFKA and arriving at the boarding house at 3:00 pm.
Gladys Johnson described firing the housekeeper, Earline several times, the only stated reason was that Earline Roberts was a teller of tall tales.
Earline Robert's sister was the Ruby background witness named Bogle. She seemed intelligent but her testimony supported that she was more gifted than
her sister in the tall tales department.
Then there was the Carousel Club bartender, Nancy Perrin from Maine. She seemed to have an imagination a high functioning
1966 interview of Nancy Rich Perrin Hamilton :
Nancy's testimony :
https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/rich_n.htmcon artist could hope to have. Her husband died suspiciously in Nola, She did introduce us to the quite interesting Col. Castor.
An author named Ovid Demaris wrote a JFKA related book. He was an alumnus of the same small Biddeford, ME high school as the much
younger Nancy. He did not mention her. Mark Lane got to Nancy and Helen Markham early.
tenth
The Tippit shooter, according to a 15 year old Mrs. Virgina Davis, emptied spent cartridges from a revolver as he exited
the Tippit murder scene. She claimed to be 16 in her
first statement to police on 11/22 and was still 15 when she told WC inquiry folk she was still 15 but claimed to be 16 when they deposed her in Dallas the following spring.
They were uninterested when she claimed, unprompted and possibly unnoticed that Tippit frequently parked at the house across
the street from her sister-in-law's apartment where the two were spending that afternoon.
In the interest of brevity and one stop shopping, temporary support for my claim.:
Found on Facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/817506332415313/posts/825759478256665/
J.D. TIPPIT: THE REAL TRUTH ·
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. The house of at 10th & p 410E... Was resided in by Mrs witherspoon. One of her daughters. Johnnie maxie Witherspoon was having an affair with Tippit. The other daughter. Joy Dale (witherspoon) worked for Ruby in his club. & old mother witherspoon herself knew oswald.. So it's of no coincidence is that that spot at 10th & p was chosen as a deliberate Ambush spot..for Tippit
https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/davis_vc.htm
...Mr. BELIN. You mean you didn't see him?
Mrs. DAVIS. We saw him when he cut across our yard.
Mr. BELIN. Where was he when you last saw him? He was---was he still in your yard, or was he on the sidewalk on Patton Street?
Mrs. DAVIS. He was still in our yard.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do
Mrs. DAVIS. We already called the police.
Mr. BELIN. You called the police before you saw him
Mrs. DAVIS. When Mrs. Markham was standing across the street hollering, she told us to call the police, so Jeanette and I went in there, and Jeanette called the police and we went back and he was cutting across our yard, and we gave him time to go on because we were afraid he might shoot us.
Mr. BELIN. Did you call the police before or after you saw him cut across your yard?
Mrs. DAVIS. Before.
Mr. BELIN. In other words, to your---to the best of your recollection, you heard the shots, you ran outside, you saw Mrs. Markham---did you see anything else when you saw Mrs. Markham?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, sir; we just saw a police car sitting on the side of the road.
Mr. BELIN. Where was the police car parked?
Mrs. DAVIS. It was parked between the hedge that marks the apartment house where he lives in and the house next door.
Mr. BELIN. Was it on your side of East 10th or the other side of the street?
Mrs. DAVIS. It was on our side, the same side that we lived on.
Mr. BELIN. Was it headed as you looked to the police car, towards your right or towards your left?
Mrs. DAVIS. Right.
Mr. BELIN. Did you see any police officer in a police car when you first saw him?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, sir....
Tippit was rumored to be involved with a women, Witherspoon, staying temporarily in that house the witness Virginia associated with Tippit's
car. Estranged from her husband, she was already pregnant at that time. Her daughter, I believe, is still living. Maybe new light
can be shed if a GoFundMe could be set up to incentivize her to submit her DNA and to disclose the results of the testing....
https://www.maryferrell.org/php/marysdb.php?id=2117A Record from Mary's Database
Mrs. C. L. Connell said General Walker and Colonel Castorr were arousing Cuban refugees. Close friend of General Edwin Walker. Wife: Gertrude or "Trudy"
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32390682.pdfThere is no record of agency association with CASTORR. An FBI report of 13 March 1969 reported that CASTORR had lunch with Viktor Ivanovich MIRONOV (201 -731 745), a KGB officer at the Soviet …
More research results on Col. Castorr who matched the desciption
by Nancy Rich Perrin,https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25605-49th-armored-division/https://conspiracydossiers.com/2026/04/05/robert-perrin/
Who was Robert Perrin?
Dallas to New Orleans, 1961-1962
Nancy Perrin works at the Carousel Club
The Cuba Project Meetings
The Suicide of Robert Perrin, August 28, 1962
Harassment of Nancy Perrin Rich
Dallas-New Orleans Underworld
Notes
Who was Robert Perrin?
On October 11, 1920, Robert Lee Perrin was born in Kerkhoven, Swift County, Minnesota, USA.1 Very little is known about his life...