Man Who Discovered Tippit to be Awarded (Kennedy Assassination)

NBCDFW ^ | Sat, Nov 20, 2010

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I remember seeing this same pic on FR a long time ago

I remember seeing it happen live on television. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby :

Ruby achieved international notoriety two days later. After driving into town and sending a money order to one of his employees, he walked the short distance to the nearby police headquarters. There is some evidence it was on a whim, for he left his favorite dog, Sheba, in the car, when he shot and fatally wounded the 24-year-old Oswald on Sunday, November 24, 1963, at 11:21 am CST, while authorities were preparing to transfer Oswald by car from police headquarters to the nearby county jail. Stepping out from a crowd of reporters and photographers, Ruby fired a snub-nosed Colt Cobra .38 into Oswald's abdomen during a nationally televised live broadcast.

A true OMG moment, if ever there was one.

[Carley]

My radar went off at the ‘worked for Ruby........’

Little by little the truth may out, but I suspect Caroline Kennedy will be the one making sure no details are released from the official records.

The swimmer got them sealed for a hundred years, IIRC.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Oak Cliff

[TYVets]

A former Ruby employee “found” Tippet?

I am sure the Warren Commission studied this connection at great length. (/S)

[Carl LaFong]

I don’t think that photo is real either.
No serious keyboardist would use two Roland D-20s.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“No serious keyboardist would use two Roland D-20s.”

It's even more curious how the keyboardist got two of them 24 years before they were marketed?

[Oztrich Boy]

I keep coming back to the rifle. Why would Oswald choose a bolt action rifle in 6.5mm when he was more familiar with the M-1 Garand? At the time, both would have been available, although the M-1 would have been more expensive, but more accurate. All it would have taken was one bolt hangup and the assassination fails.

You got it. Noone planning an assassination would choose the Carcano instead of the M-1.

Bur when JFK became a target of opportunity, Oswald used the cheap rifle he already owned.

A planned conspiracy would have provided an M-1

[Right Wing Assault]

You get an award for finding a body? Wow, half of the people living in DC should have an award by now.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Oswald didn’t shoot anyone.***

Year ago I read a report published in a magazine written by one Gerrald Ford (years later to become the POTUS).

He said one of the things that tied Oswald to the rifle was a small string caught in the butplate of the rifle that matched exactly the string in the shirt Oswald was wearing.

His report blamed Oswald and no one else.

[Netz]

I do not think so. The Warren Commission (WC) was “spoon fed” a lot of data from the FBI. The WC overlooked and underlooked millions of key details, intentionally and unintentionally. They had a foregone conclusionh to reach...

[TYVets]

Please note the (/S) at the end of my reply.

It means sarcasm off.

I was being sarcastic when I say the Warren Commission studied this connection.

[EDINVA]

Were both those interstates there in ‘63? I’m not at all familiar with the area, but I remember the interstate concept was still pretty new and just beginning to be built back then. I can’t imagine the area there hasn’t grown enormously in the past half century so that what’s there today would be unrecognizable to someone who was there in ‘63

Not that the Ruby employee just happening to find Tibbets isn’t fishy (just as Ruby knowing Osawald, then getting in to kill him, wasn’t fishy)