Word: tippit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other evidence against Oswald is overwheLming. His handwriting on mail orders for the rifle, as well as for the revolver used to kill Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit, is proof that he bought both under an alias (A. Hidell). On the eve of the assassination, he caught a ride with a coworker, Buell Wesley Frazier, to make a rare weeknight visit to his estranged wife in a Dallas suburb; he claimed that he wanted to pick up some curtain rods. Although his rented room in Dallas had all its needed rods, next day he carried a long, thin package in brown...
Some 46 minutes after the shooting of Kennedy, Officer J.D. Tippit stopped a suspicious looking young man less than one mile from the crime. The man gunned down Tippit. The critics ask, "Why did Tippit stop Oswald?" Only Tippit knew. But if a gunman who had just shot the President saw a police car approach, he might well show signs of fright. Oswald was so shaken moments after killing Tippit that a suspicious storekeeper followed him to a theater, where Oswald was arrested...
When caught later, Oswald carried the revolver that ballistics tests showed had fired the four cartridge cases found in a yard near Tippit's body. A witness saw Oswald discard the empty shells there. Six witnesses identified Oswald as the gunman they saw either at the Tippit murder scene or fleeing...
...accept the conclusion that Oswald killed both Kennedy and Officer Tippit is not necessarily to believe that no one put him up to it. Yet no evidence of a plot has ever been brought forward. The hit man in such a scheme does not wander around, as Oswald did -walking, catching a bus, switching to a cab, picking up a revolver at his rooming house and walking again-with not enough money to travel far from the scene of the crime. He does not call attention to himself ahead of time by barging into the Cuban and Soviet embassies...
...general manager or the farm-system director." Miller was a college fullback (Notre Dame) until he was sidelined by an injury; his father, Ray T. Miller, was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Browns. "I've always wanted to be an owner like my father," he says. Tippit was a boyhood baseball freak who wanted to keep Cleveland a major-league city. With the authority of a $250,000 in vestment, he helps run the town's base ball team, the Indians...