J.D. Tippit

J.D. Tippit (September 18th 1924 - November 22nd 1963) is an police officer of Dallas, Texas, which was cut down by Lee Harvey Oswald less than one hour after the assassination of the President Kennedy whereas, according to the witnesses, Tippit had challenged Oswald perhaps because its description corresponded to the first description of the assassin.

Biography

Tippit had been born in Clarksville, in Texas. During the Second world war, it was used in the 17th airborne Division of July 1944 in June 1946.

Tippit Maria with Marie Frances Gasaway in December 1946, with whom it had three children. After various community activities, it became patrol in the police force of Dallas in June 1952 when it was noted (it was quoted for bravery in 1956 after having disarmed fugitive).

Murder

November 22nd, 1963, Tippit went voluntary to replace his/her colleague and friend, the officer Tom Tilson. Whereas most of the police force of Dallas converged towards Dealey Plaza, it accepted the order to patrol the district of Oak Cliff. In accordance with a use which was not rare in the police force of Dallas in 1963, it was alone to patrol.

Towards 13:15, approximately 45 minutes after the assassination of the President, Tippit challenged Oswald, perhaps because it corresponded to the general description of the assassin such as it had been given in a radio message towards 12:45, perhaps because according to testimonys, some think that Oswald perhaps made half-turn by seeing the police car.

Certain theories of the conspiracy made of Tippit either an accomplice of Oswald, or the first nobody before Jack Ruby to try to assassinate Oswald.

Tippit made come Oswald towards the car. After an exchange of some words, Tippit left the car and circumvented it to join Oswald on the pavement.

Some interpreted as something of suspect the fact that Tippit neither announced to the radio that it challenged somebody, nor left its weapon. However, if one judges this behavior with the ell of the payments of the police force of Dallas, this behavior meant that it was simply suspicieux but had not positively identified the individual like a suspect.

Whereas it circumvented the car, Oswald left its revolver, a gauge .38, and drew five times. It touched Tippit four times, and this one died instantaneously.

Thirteen witnesses identified Lee Harvey Oswald either like the gunner, or like anybody fleeing the scene of the murder.

In 1964, Tippit accepted the medal of honor of the police force on a purely posthumous basis. It is buried in Laurel Land Park Memorial in Dallas.

In 1990, little before the exit the film JFK, American a 29 year old had affirmed that his/her father, Roscoe White, a police officer of Dallas then deceased, had belonged to a commando of three agents of the CIA which had assassinated Kennedy. It would have revealed these facts to him on its bed of death. Lee Harvey Oswald would have belonged to the plot, but would not have drawn and would have been used as scapegoat. White would have also killed the police officer J.D. Tippit.

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