Talk:J. D. Tippit

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[edit] J.D./Jefferson Davis

I, like everyone else, have always thought that JD stood for Jefferson Davis, but I just learned via Dale Myers book that JD doesn't stand for anything at all. Myers quotes JD's brother Wayne Tippit as saying "It was just an initial name". (page 588) and, well, the guy's brother is a pretty authoritative source. Gamaliel 09:25, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I looked him up in the 1930 Census (Red River County, Texas) and he is listed there as "Jd" while his brother is listed as "Donald R.". Gamaliel 10:40, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Assassination

Like all aspects of the Kennedy assassination, the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Officer Tippit has been questioned by conspiracy believers. Many assassination books discuss the Tippit shooting in limited detail. The most comprehensive authoritative volume, and the only book dedicated exclusively to the Tippit shooting and its aftermath, is Dale K. Myers' With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit. Myers' book discusses the conspiracy theories surrounding Tippit's murder and documents the true facts. While other conspiracy-oriented books provide alternative viewpoints, none are as complete and well-documented as With Malice. The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.60.110.76 (talk • contribs) .

David Belin of the Warren and Rockefeller Commission is fond of saying, "Lee Harvey Oswald killed policeman Tippit. Since the case against Oswald for the Tippit slaying is so strong, it follows that Oswald also shot the President." The case against Oswald in the Tippit murder is as weak as the case against him in the JFK assassination. The most important evidence showing that Seymour and another one of the assassination team shot Tippit is the fact that six witnesses, ignored by the Warren Commission, saw two men shoot Tippit. One of them resembled Oswald. They ran away from the scene in opposite directions. Seymour ran toward the Texas Theater, throwing the planted shells up in the air so that witnesses would see and recover them. (This act would convince most people that Oswald did not shoot Tippit.) The other assassin ran in the opposite direction. There is some indication that Seymour entered the theater in a manner to draw attention and then left before the Oswald arrest. While the shells recovered were found to match Oswald's pistol, none of the bullets recovered from Tippit's body matched. The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.1.5.244 (talk • contribs) .

Wow, now we're just making stuff up. Gamaliel 08:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)