Word: tippit
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...preferably in Dallas. Still in protective seclusion, under guard by Secret Service agents, she was described as overwhelmed by the generosity of U.S. residents, who have contributed some $12,000 toward the future support of herself and her two children. Similar contributions to the widow of Patrolman J. D. Tippit, who was slain by Oswald after the President's assassination, now total more than...
...Officer J. D. Tippit. In saluting him you will salute all police officers...
...Times Herald was on the streets with a remarkably comprehensive account that included quotes from eyewitnesses and police, and a description of the assassin (who was then still at large). At 4:15, the paper was reporting Lee Oswald's arrest and the murder of Dallas Policeman Tippit. It also carried a picture of the assassin's rifle and a map of the assassination scene. Demand was so heavy that although the Times Herald jumped its normal 200,000 press run by 82,000 copies, vendors hawked the 5? paper for as much as $1 per copy...
Following a high pageantry usually experienced only at Commencement, President Pusey transferred the Lowell tippit, a Master's traditional sash of authority, from Perkins' shoulder to that of his successor, Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin. With this gesture, the 23 years of the Perkinsian Age ended and Lowell's third Mastership began...