Acquilla Clemons - Witness to the shooting of Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit (Oswald didn't do it)

Acquilla Clemons lived on the north side of Tenth Street in Dallas. Clemons was sitting on the porch of her house when she saw Officer J. D. Tippit killed.

Afterwards she claimed that there were two men involved in the attack on Tippit. She later testified in a television documentary that the gunman was a "short guy and kind of heavy". The other man was tall and thin in khaki trousers and a white shirt. She also claimed that Dallas Police warned her not to repeat this story to others or "she might get hurt".

She said she had been visited by the FBI, who decided not to take a statement because of her poor health. Mrs. Clemons suffered from diabetes, hardly a condition to deter efficient investigators from taking a statement. According to two reporters, who visited Mrs. Clemons several years after the assassination, she and her family still spoke with conviction of seeing two men at the scene of the Tippit shooting. Mrs. Clemons' story finds corroboration from another witness, and he too was ignored."

Exactly, as I said GSR is not “powder burns.”

And now the definition of a “powder burn.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_burn

I don't know whether the reporter was so dumb not to know the difference or if it was the LEO’s that collected the information.

I do know that one can get powder burns from a firearm gasses exiting a muzzle, exiting the cylinder face of a revolver, and from the blow-back of some semi-automatic firearms. The rifle allegedly used to kill JFK was a bolt action rifle.

IOW, you’re criticizing me for the wording of a reporter?

Not at all. I am criticizing the factual information presented by the reporter. I wanted to make sure that those reading the article understand how much fake news was contained within either the reporter’s story or the LEO report.

As a critical reader (which I hope all FR readers are) I feel it is important to critically read all new reports, point out things that are not accurate, so that folks may judge the various stories.

Actually, I want to thank you for posting the story, as I agree with you, it does make it sound like that part of the story where Oswald did not kill the police officer alone was possibly fabricated. I fully believe that in time when more facts come out, we will find out that there was a huge “cover up” associated with the JFK assassination. I further expect that there will be even more direct ties to either active action or active inaction on the part of the FBI and CIA in JFK’s murder.

It is my hope that with the change in the leadership of so many alphabet agencies that truth will spring forward and that as damaging as it may be, people will slowly be able to build faith in what now appear to be corrupt government agencies.

Domingo Benavides saw Tippit standing by the left door of his parked police car, and a man standing on the right side of the car. He then heard three[34] shots and saw Tippit fall to the ground. Benavides stopped his pickup truck on the opposite side of the street from Tippit’s car. He observed the shooter fleeing the scene and removing two spent cartridge cases from his gun as he left.

Benavides waited in his truck until the gunman disappeared, and then “a few minutes” more, before assisting Tippit. He then tried, unsuccessfully,[23] to use the radio in Tippit’s car to report the shooting to police headquarters. Then another, unidentified person used the radio in the car and reported the shooting to a police operator for the first time. After that, Ted Callaway, who was Benavides’ boss at the used car lot and a former Marine, used the radio and reported the shooting, hearing in response that the police already knew about it.[34][35]

Callaway testified that he had seen the shooter with the gun “in a raised pistol position”, and shouted at him, but what the shooter responded was unintelligible.[35] Helen Markham witnessed the shooting and then saw a man with a gun in his hand leave the scene.[36] Markham identified Oswald as Tippit’s killer in a police lineup she viewed that evening.[37]

Barbara Davis and her sister-in-law Virginia Davis heard the shots and saw a man crossing their lawn, shaking his revolver, as if he were emptying it of cartridge cases. Later, the women found two cartridge cases near the crime scene and handed the cases over to police. Two other cartridge cases were handed to a policeman by Benavides. That evening, Barbara Davis and Virginia Davis were taken to a lineup and both Davises picked out Oswald as the man whom they had seen.[38]

Taxicab driver William Scoggins testified that he was sitting nearby in his cab when he saw Tippit’s police car pull up alongside a man on the sidewalk. Scoggins heard three or four shots and then saw Tippit fall to the ground. As Scoggins crouched behind his cab, the man passed within 12 feet of him, pistol in hand, muttering what sounded to him like, “poor dumb cop” or “poor damn cop”.[39] The next day, Scoggins viewed a police lineup and identified Oswald as the man whom he had seen with the pistol.[4

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