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American police officer (1924–1963)
Lee Harvey Oswald is tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by a multi-part evidentiary chain placing him on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository at the time shots struc...
The Warren Commission concluded that multiple strands of evidence tied Lee Harvey Oswald to the fatal shooting of Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit roughly 45 minutes after President Kennedy’s assassinatio...
Lee Harvey Oswald is variously reported to have shot and killed Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit between approximately Central Time on November 22, 1963; the most commonly cited times cluster around ...
The mainstream, official finding is that Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Officer J.D. Tippit shortly after President Kennedy’s assassination; the Warren Commission and later the HSCA reached that co...
Police officers who located Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theatre on November 22, 1963, arrested him after a brief struggle in which Oswald allegedly produced a pistol and claimed he was a victim of ...
Lee Harvey Oswald left the Texas School Book Depository shortly after the assassination and, according to multiple official and contemporary accounts, walked down to the first floor, exited the buildi...
Multiple contemporary sources and the Warren Report list about a dozen people who saw or were near the shooting of Officer J.D. Tippit and/or its immediate aftermath; by the evening of November 22, fi...
J. D. Tippit was a Dallas police officer and U.S. Army World War II veteran who was shot and killed in Oak Cliff, Dallas, about 45 minutes after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 2...
Multiple contemporaneous witnesses and later investigators linked Lee Harvey Oswald to the murder of Officer J.D. Tippit; the Warren Commission relied heavily on several named eyewitnesses (for exampl...
Ballistics evidence in official reporting concluded that the four .38-caliber cartridge cases found at the Tippit scene were fired from the Smith & Wesson revolver in Lee Harvey Oswald’s possession "t...
The official investigations — the Warren Commission and the later House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) — concluded Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Officer J.D. Tippit about 45 minutes aft...
Multiple sources report that several eyewitnesses placed a man later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald at or near the Tippit murder scene on November 22, 1963; key named witnesses include Helen Markham,...
The core, recurring claim across the materials is that Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, killing President John F. Kennedy, then left the building, enco...
Official and mainstream accounts say Patrolman J.D. Tippit was on his normal Oak Cliff beat and moved toward central Oak Cliff after hearing radio traffic about the assassination and a suspect descrip...
J.D. Tippit was a Dallas police officer, a World War II Army veteran and Bronze Star recipient who served with the Dallas Police Department from 1952 until he was killed on November 22, 1963 . He was ...
Officer J. D. Tippit was a Dallas police officer shot dead about 45 minutes after President Kennedy’s assassination; contemporary investigations concluded Lee Harvey Oswald killed him and arrested Osw...
Within about 45 minutes of President Kennedy’s shooting on November 22, 1963, Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit was killed in Oak Cliff; witnesses later identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the fleeing gunman a...
The shooting of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit on November 22, 1963, significantly contributed to locating and arresting Lee Harvey Oswald that afternoon: witnesses at the Tippit scene described a ...
entered in Oak Cliff on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, was identified by theater staff and patrons, a call went to who converged on the building, and Oswald was taken into custody after a short s...
The official forensic record tied the rounds that struck President John F. Kennedy to 6.5×52mm Carcano ammunition, recovered as a largely intact “stretcher bullet” and numerous small fragments consist...