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To: Ssrn53
How did the police get a complete discription of Oswald within fifteen minutes of the assasination?

That is a question that has been bugging me over the last several days. Are there any records of witnesses giving a description? If he was in the lunch room a minute and a half later, cool as a cucumber, why would anyone suspect him? If the description came from people who saw him in the window, how do they get details such as height and weight from this? If people saw him shooting wouldn't some hero types have gone it after him? Anyway...just one of things that bugs me. Any info on this is greatly appreciated.

14 posted on 11/20/2003 10:52:11 AM PST by dubyagee
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To: dubyagee
How did the police happen to get a description of Oswald ...?

Several witnesses pointed police to the schoolbook depository bldg, whose employees had mostly stopped work to watch the motorcade. The supervisors immediately began to take roll of who was there, and the only person missing was Oswald.

I am not absolutely clear on how soon and how detailed the bulletin for Oswald was. About 90 minutes after killing JFK, he encountered policeman J.D. Tippett on the street and killed him -- why has never been explained, my theory is that Tippett (who was posted in a quiet part of Dallas, far from the scene of the assassination) merely asked this stranger if there had been any additional news on the radio or TV and Oswald panicked. There were eyewitnesses to the Tippett shooting, who immediately directed police to the movie theatre where Oswald had run.

15 posted on 11/20/2003 11:31:46 AM PST by DonQ
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