Posted on 03/04/2021 8:39:06 AM PST by Borges
Marie Tippit, the widow of the Dallas police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald about 45 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 92.
Tippit died Tuesday at a hospital in the East Texas city of Sulphur Springs after being diagnosed with pneumonia following a positive test for COVID-19, said her son, Curtis Tippit, 62. He said his mother also suffered from congestive heart failure.
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I was in 1st grade that day, now retired.
RIP
That whole episode of Oswald killing Tippett is the strangest part of the assassination sequence of events. Why Oswald wouldn’t try to just quietly slip away rather than walk up to a police car and kill the cop is bizzare to say the least, and it has never been fully explained to my knowledge.
Kennedy conspiracy theorists (I am not one, BTW) believe Tippet was part of the assassination and was supposed to kill the “patsy” Oswald but was killed by Oswald instead.
A lot of events that day have never been fully explained. Though my tagline offers some advice that should have been heeded.
Anyone doubting that it was Oswald firing the rifle at Kennedy well his murderous escapade that day also gunned downed officer Tippet. Patsy my ash the despicable Castroist leftist.
I consider myself a Kennedy assassination conspiracy buff—but I have no views one way or the other on what Tippett was up to—except I am certain that Oswald did not kill him.
I used to be an assassination conspiracy believer, but then I read Bugliosi’s book on the subject, which changed my mind. Now I will have to go back and revisit that section as I do not recall how he addressed it. But he did confirm what you have stated.
Odd with upfront investigations headed by Deep State insiders like future President Gerald Ford, and others with ties to CIA head Allen Dulles whom JFK passed over and humbled earlier. George H.W. Bush ready to see that all facts come out in the open. And our fully transparent and honest Federal Government and intelligence community with people like Comey, McCabe and Wrayk who are ready to bring out the truth no matter how the chips fall./SARC
I never even knew this part of the story, and yes, I recall that day vividly. I didn’t know Oswald had killed a pursuing Cop. It doesn’t surprise me, of course.
At first, I thought the subject of this article would be
Marina Oswald Porter, Lee’s widow. His Russian bride.
She’s still alive at age 79.
I used to be as well. I didn't read Bugliosi's book, but I came to disbelieve the conspiracy stuff because it was either far-fetched BS, or the conspiracy buffs were being disingenuous about their "facts". Maybe I'll read that book (if it hasn't been banned yet).
Dismissing all the hey-wait-a-minute-aspects of the JFK assassination (Jack Ruby, anyone?) as conspiracy theories is comforting, I guess, to some folks. Just as believing that the 2020 presidential election was on the up and up is now mandatory in polite society.
He told his brother and mother he was ready to take up arms against America. While he was living in the glorious ISSR.
Was mama in on it too?
It is a very long read. There is one glaring hole in it for me that I wish he had addressed: “Appointment in Dallas” by Hugh McDonald. I still have that book and McDonald was an extremely well credentialed person. His story was not disputed by Bugliosi, only ridiculed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LohiQe2LBg&ab_channel=MrChrillemannen
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_QIuu6hsAc
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpmN7ZEaRA
a little trivia: Bob Schieffer was a young newspaper reporter in Dallas and managed to get an exclusive interview with Oswald’s mother just after his arrest. He even drove her to Dallas. This journalistic coup was his ticket to bigger and better things in the media universe. Peter Jennings and Dan Rather also became much better known nationally as a result of their reporting from the scene.
Like how Jack Ruby was able to so easily kill Oswald. The guards literally held him in such a way to invite the bullet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6PcVCqg3tg
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