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    Why Did Tippit Stop Oswald?

    7/16/2014

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    Even if one accepts the official story that it was Lee Harvey Oswald who shot Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit after the JFK killing, there is still one baffling question that remains unanswered: Why did Tippit stop Oswald on the street in the first place?
    The Warren Commission concluded it was because Oswald fit the description of the suspected Kennedy assassin that had gone out over the police radio.
    Okay, that sort of makes sense when you first hear it. Except – upon examination of the facts – it makes no sense at all.
    The police description broadcast that day was for an: “Unknown white male, approximately 30, 165 pounds, slender build…no further information or description at this time.” That general description clearly matched much of the male population of Dallas. (and didn’t exactly match Oswald). So why did Tippit – seeing a man simply walking down a street in the middle of the day miles from the assassination site – decide to stop him as a possible suspect?
    There are also many questions about where the police description – vague as it was – ever came from. Many believe it was based on a witness, Howard Brennan, who claimed to have seen a man in the sixth floor window at the time of the assassination. But other accounts say the description came from an unidentified source who said he saw an unidentified man running from the Book Depository after the shots were fired. No official basis for the police broadcast of that early description was ever confirmed.
    What does all of this mean? I have no idea. Oswald and Tippit were the only people who really knew the circumstances that brought them together on that fateful afternoon.  All the rest is just speculation. Maybe Oswald did something, said something to make Tippit suspicious - or maybe it wasn't even Oswald at all that shot him.
    But I do know that the official version of the Oswald/Tippit encounter just doesn’t add up to me.

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      R.G. Belsky

      R.G. Belsky is an author of crime fiction and a journalist in New York City. His newest mystery , YESTERDAY'S NEWS, will be published in May 2018 by Oceanview.  It is the first in a series featuring Clare Carlson, the news director for a New York City TV station. Belsky's last book, BLONDE ICE, was published by Atria in October 2016. It is the third in a series of books from Atria about Gil Malloy, a hard-driving newspaper reporter with a penchant for breaking big stories on the front page of the New York Daily News. The first book in the Gil Malloy series - THE KENNEDY CONNECTION - was published in 2014 and SHOOTING FOR THE STARS came out in 2015. Belsky himself is a former managing editor at the Daily News and writes about the media from an extensive background in newspapers, magazines and TV/digital news. At the Daily News, he also held the titles of metropolitan editor and deputy national editor. Before that, he was metropolitan editor of the New York Post and news editor at Star magazine. Belsky was most recently the managing editor for news at NBCNews.com. His previous suspense novels include PLAYING DEAD and LOVERBOY.  BLONDE ICE was nominated as a finalist for the David Award at Deadly Ink and also for the Silver Falchion at Killer Nashville in 2017. He was the Claymore Award winner at Killer Nashville 2016 and also a Silver Falchion Finalist in both the mystery and thriller categories.

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