THE PRE-ARRANGED MURDER OF J.D. TIPPIT -- Part 1
By John Armstrong
Warren Commission attorney David Belin called the Tippit murder the rosetta stone of the Kennedy assassination. A rosetta stone is defined as "a key to some previously undecipherable mystery." While the Kennedy assassination has been an undecipherable mystery for the past 60 years, the Tippit murder will not unlock all of the mysteries of the Kennedy assassination. The Tippit murder does, however, show us there were two men resembling Lee Harvey Oswald, two wallets, two sets of identification, two arrests made in the Texas Theater, and two murders which resulted in one man, HARVEY Oswald, being charged with the murder of both Tippit and President Kennedy. A careful analysis of the Tippit murder will allow us to identify certain members of the Dallas Police who were corrupt, identify evidence that was created, evidence that was manipulated, evidence that was destroyed, and understand how and why Harvey Oswald was framed to take the blame for murdering Tippit. This pattern of corruption, coverup, manipulation and destruction of evidence by the Dallas Police in the Tippit murder can help us decipher and understand a similar pattern of corruption, coverup, manipulation and destruction of evidence by the FBI and CIA in the assassination of President Kennedy. The Tippit murder clearly demonstrates that HARVEY Oswald was framed by the Dallas Police for the Tippit murder. The assassination of President Kennedy by a Russian speaking Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist sympathizer, a “defector” to the Soviet Union, and a supporter of Castro and Cuba, who was set up and framed for the assassination of President Kennedy by the FBI and CIA made him the perfect “patsy.” Understanding the two Oswald’s in the Tippit murder may indeed be the "rosetta stone" that allows us to see thru the smoke and mirrors of the President's murder and subsequent coverup that has persisted for 60 years.
THE WARREN COMMISSION VERSION
After President Kennedy was shot HARVEY Oswald left the TSBD by way of the loading dock at the rear of the building, He then walked east on Elm St., and pounded on the door of the Marsalis bus while the bus was stopped in traffic. The bus driver, Cecil McWaters, opened the bus door and allowed Oswald to board. A few minutes later, with the bus stalled in traffic, Oswald asked for a transfer and got off the bus. Oswald then walked to the Greyhound bus station, got into a taxi, and rode to his rooming house on N. Beckley St. Oswald spent a few minutes changing clothes, picked up his pistol, and then walked out of the rooming house zipping up his jacket.
Oswald then walked to 10th & Patton, arriving about 1:16 PM. A police officer pulled over to the curb. Oswald walked to the police car and began talking to the officer thru the passenger side car window. As the police officer got out of the vehicle Oswald shot him. Oswald then hurried south on Patton St., turned right on Jefferson Blvd., and hurried thru a parking lot behind the Texaco station where he discarded his light colored jacket. He then hurried west on Jefferson Blvd and briefly ducked into a vestibule at Hardy's Shoe store where he was seen by store manager Johnny Brewer. Brewer saw Oswald walk west on Jefferson Blvd., and then sneak into the Texas Theater without purchasing a ticket. Brewer asked the theater cashier, Julia Postal, if Oswald purchased a ticket. Brewer then went into the theater looking for the man who had snuck into the theater. Brewer could not find the suspicious man, returned to the cashier and told her to call the police. A few minutes later the police arrived, arrested Oswald, and took him to jail. This is the Warren Commission's version of the Tippit murder.
The details of the Tippit murder, the people involved, and their activities are very difficult to follow. Many people are involved and they are going in different directions and doing different things at exactly the same time. Following these people and trying to remember their activities and locations in sequential order, minute by minute, can be frustrating and confusing.
The Pre-arranged murder of Officer J.D. Tippit
It should come as no surprise that nearly everything that involved HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald on November 22 was pre-planned—everything—because nothing could be left to chance. HARVEY Oswald allegedly bringing a long package to the Book Depository on the morning of 11/22/63 was pre-planned. Oswald working and leaving fingerprints on the 6th floor of the Book Depository was pre-planned. Oswald sitting in the lunchroom when Kennedy was shot was pre-planned. Oswald leaving quickly from the Book Depository, made to appear as his "escape" from the building, was pre-planned.
I do not believe that on the morning of 11/22/63, when HARVEY Oswald left the Paine home, he knew anything about the pre-planned assassination of President Kennedy. Nearly all of Oswald’s movements and whereabouts on November 22 were pre-planned, but HARVEY Oswald knew nothing of these plans—he was simply following orders.
After President Kennedy was shot HARVEY Oswald left the TSBD by way of the loading dock at the rear of the building, He then walked east on Elm St. and pounded on the door of the Marsalis bus while the bus was stopped in traffic. Oswald boarding the Marsalis bus was pre-planned. Officer Tippit sitting at the GLOCO Station, waiting for HARVEY Oswald, was pre-planned. Oswald going to the Texas Theater was pre-planned. The murder of Officer Tippit was pre-planned.
LEE Oswald
HARVEY Oswald
It may seem hard to imagine or understand why two Dallas Police Officers would become involved in a plot to murder Officer J. D. Tippit, a fellow Dallas policeman, in front of numerous eyewitnesses. The extent of Tippit's involvement in the events of November 22 are mostly unknown but officer Tippit, as we shall see, knew both LEE Oswald and HARVEY Oswald. The precise time and exact location of Tippit's murder was carefully planned and staged in order to make it appear as though HARVEY Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy from the Book Depository and 45 minutes later shot and killed Officer Tippit in Oak Cliff. The murder of officer Tippit was simply the final act in a long drama wherein LEE Oswald framed HARVEY Oswald for the murder of President Kennedy and for the murder of Officer Tippit. Officer Tippit was one of the few people who was familiar with both LEE Oswald and with HARVEY Oswald.
Two days before the assassination, on November 20, Harvey Oswald left his rooming house at 1026 N. Beckley, boarded the Beckley city bus, and at 8:00 AM arrived for work at the Book Depository. Two hours later, at 10:00 am, LEE Oswald arrived at the Dobbs House Restaurant, a small cafe located at 1221 N. Beckley, just two blocks north of HARVEY Oswald's rooming house. LEE Oswald ordered coffee and "eggs over light" from waitress Mary Ada Dowling. Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit was sitting at a nearby table drinking coffee. Tippit worked the 7:00 am to 3:00 pm shift in district #78 in south Oak Cliff, 6 miles south of the Dobbs House restaurant. When Mary Dowling served Oswald's breakfast he complained that the eggs were "cooked too hard" and he cursed at her. When she offered to replace his order, Oswald belligerently refused. A few minutes later, after waiting for a coffee refill, Oswald again cursed at Mary and attracted the attention of Officer Tippit, who said nothing. LEE Oswald's rude mannerisms were also observed and remembered by chef Dolores Harrison, and restaurant owner Sam Rogers. The next time LEE Oswald and Officer Tippit were seen together was two days later on the morning of November 22....first when they were seen at the same time in the Top 10 Record Store, and later when they were talking to each other thru the passenger side car window of Tippit's patrol car near 10th & Patton.
After finishing breakfast at the Dobbs House restaurant LEE Oswald was next seen at the Beckley Street entrance to the R. L. Thornton Expressway, a mile south of the restaurant. Ralph Leon Yates was a 27-year-old refrigeration serviceman who worked for the Texas Butcher Supply Company at 2038 Commerce in Dallas. Yates was returning from Charley Jordan's Meat Market in Oak Cliff when he spotted a man attempting to secure a ride toward downtown Dallas. Yates stopped to pick up the man, who was carrying a 4 -to 4- 1/2 foot-long package wrapped in brown paper. Yates told the man he could put the package in the back of the truck, but the man said the package contained curtain rods and he preferred to carry it in the cab of the truck. As they drove toward the downtown area the hitchhiker asked Yates if he thought a man could be shot from a window in a tall building. Yates, somewhat surprised, said that it would be possible if a man had a good rifle, with a scope, and was a good shot. The hitchhiker then pulled out a photograph that showed a man holding a rifle and asked Yates if he thought the President could be killed with an identical rifle. Yates glanced at the picture and recalled the photograph was the same man sitting in his truck. In the photo the man was holding a rifle in his right hand with the butt of the rifle resting on the ground. The rifle had a strap, but no scope, and the man was also wearing a pistol in a holster. The man then asked Yates if he knew the President's parade route, and then asked if he thought the route would be changed. Yates said that he doubted the route would be changed, unless it was changed for safety reasons. As Yates approached downtown Dallas the hitchhiker told Yates that he was going to Houston Street. Yates turned off the expressway onto Commerce, drove north on Houston, and stopped for the traffic light at Elm. The hitchhiker got out of the truck and Yates watched as he crossed Elm and continued north on Houston. Yates turned left in front of the Texas School Book Depository, got back on the Expressway, and drove to the Parkit Market on Shady Grove Road in Irving. When Yates returned to the Texas Butcher Supply Company, he told fellow employee Dempsey Jones about the hitchhiker and the long package that contained "curtain rods." Yates also told Dempsey the young man talked about shooting a man from a window in a high-rise building. The young man was LEE Oswald, who was once again impersonating HARVEY Oswald, but on this occasion it was only two days before the assassination of President Kennedy.
Oswald goes to Irving, TX
The day before the assassination, on Thursday, November 21, HARVEY Oswald rode with Wesley Frazier to Ruth Paine's home in Irving, TX, after work, allegedly to visit his wife and children. However, I believe that HARVEY Oswald was following detailed "orders/instructions" that were given to him by someone very close to the conspirators.
The real purpose of Oswald's visit may have been to pick up and open a package that was mailed to him at the Paine's home. This package, however, was not delivered to the Paine's because of insufficient postage.
The package was held at the Irving post office and later opened by US Postal Inspectors. The original address on this package was 2525 W. 5th, Irving, TX., the same address that appeared on the post office's Notice of Attempted Delivery. Someone, within the post office, placed a label over Ruth Paine's address after the assassination. The label shows a different address for Oswald. The package as shown above contained a long brown paper bag, similar in size and appearance to the paper bag allegedly used by HARVEY Oswald to carry the rifle into the Book Depository. If HARVEY Oswald had received this package at Ruth Paine's home, opened this package, and examined the bag, then this paper bag would have been placed on the 6th floor of the Book Depository. Oswald's fingerprints on this paper bag would connect him to the Manlicher Carcano rifle found on the 6th floor of the Book Depository.
As HARVEY Oswald was relaxing with his family on Thursday evening in Irving, TX., a young man knocked on the door of apartment #206 at 223 S. Ewing about 9:00 pm. The apartment, thirteen miles away in Oak Cliff, was occupied by a Professor at Southern Methodist University. The knock was answered by the Professor's friend, Helen McIntosh, who greeted an unknown young man. When the man asked for Jack Ruby, the Professor told Miss McIntosh that Ruby lived in the adjoining apartment, number 207. The next day, following the assassination, Miss McIntosh saw photographs of "Lee Harvey Oswald" on television and realized that this was the young man who had appeared at the door of the apartment the previous evening. The young man who spoke with Helen McIntosh was not the man she saw on television, The man Helen saw on Friday evening at 9:00 PM was LEE Oswald.
A few hours later, at 2:15 am on November 22, LEE Oswald entered the Lucas B&B Restaurant, at 3520 Oak Lawn, two doors from the Vegas Club at 3805 Oak Lawn. Mary Lawrence was the head waitress and had known Jack Ruby for 8 years.
Oswald told Mary and also told the night cashier that he was waiting for Jack Ruby. A short while later Ruby entered the cafe, sat at a table, and was soon joined by LEE Oswald. The two men sat together and talked for over a half an hour and then left. The FBI did not take Mary seriously because they knew that Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night with his wife at Ruth Paine's. .When subsequently questioned by the Dallas Police, Mary stuck to her story. She didn't care if Oswald was supposed to have been at Ruth Paines at 2:15 am on November 22. Mary was positive that she saw Ruby and Oswald together in her restaurant. Mary told Dallas Detectives R. W Westphal and P. M. Parks that the man in her restaurant was positively Lee Harvey Oswald and that he was waiting for Jack Ruby. A week-and-a-half after the assassination, on December 3, Mary received a phone call from an unknown man who said, "If you don't want to die, you better get out of town." Mary and her co-worker both saw Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby together only 10 hours before the assassination, yet neither woman was questioned or interviewed by the Warren Commission.
MORNING OF NOVEMBER 22
On the morning of November 22, when Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit left for work, he hugged his 14-year-old son Allen and said, "No matter what happens today, I want you to know that I love you." Allen Tippit remembered this was an unusual display of affection from his normally unaffectionate father. It was the last time Allen Tippit saw his father alive.
On the morning of November 22 HARVEY Oswald left the Paine's home in Irving, TX and walked to the nearby home of Wesley Frazier, with whom he rode to the Book Depository in Dallas. Frazier's sister, Linnie Mae Randle, saw Oswald as he walked to her house. Mz. Randle told Warren Commission attorney Mr. Ball that Oswald was wearing a dark grey colored jacket.
According to Mrs. Randle, HARVEY Oswald was wearing the dark colored jacket described as CE 163 on the morning of 11/22/63. The identification of this dark colored jacket, and the shirts worn by HARVEY Oswald and by LEE Oswald, are crucial in following their movements. On November 22nd LEE Oswald was wearing a white t-shirt and the light colored jacket pictured above. HARVEY Oswald was wearing a dark brown long sleeve shirt, over a white t-shirt, and the dark colored blue/grey jacket shown above. LEE Oswald--white jacket; HARVEY Oswald--dark jacket.
At 7:30 AM, while HARVEY Oswald and Wesley Frazier were en route to the Book Depository, J. W. "Dub" Stark arrived at his Top Ten Record Store to find LEE Oswald waiting outside. Stark was the owner of the record store which was located at 338 W. Jefferson in Oak Cliff. The store still exists and is across the street and a block and a half west of the Texas Theater.
After opening the store Dub Stark sold Oswald a ticket to the Dick Clark show, "Caravan of Stars," which was to be held at the Dallas Municipal auditorium that evening. LEE Oswald left the store but returned a short time later and purchased another ticket for the same show. During Oswald's second visit police Officer ].D. Tippit was also in the store, but did not speak with Oswald.
This information about Oswald, Tippit, and the Top 10 Record Store was provided by FBI agent Carl E. Walters in a memo that he wrote to the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas office. The memo read, "On 12/3/63 Mr. John D. Whitten telephonically advised that he heard Lee Harvey Oswald was in the Top 10 Record Shop on Jefferson Blvd. on the morning of 11/22/63. Oswald bought a ticket of some kind and left. Then some time later, Oswald returned to the record shop and wanted to buy another ticket." News reporter Earl Golz confirmed this story during an interview with Dub Stark, the owner of Top 10, who sold Oswald a ticket at 7:30 AM. Golz also interviewed 18-year-old Louis Cortinas, an employee of Top Ten Records, who confirmed Mr. Stark's story.
At 9:30 am, while HARVEY Oswald was working in the Book Depository, LEE Oswald entered the Jiffy Store at 310 South Industrial Blvd., one mile southwest of the Book Depository. When LEE Oswald brought two beers to the checkout counter the store clerk, Fred Moore, asked Oswald for identification. LEE Oswald said, "Sure I got ID." He removed a Texas driver's license from his billfold and showed it to Moore. Moore told FBI agent David Barry that he remembered the name on the license was either "Lee Oswald" or possibly as "H. Lee Oswald." Moore said the birth year on the license was 1939 and he thought the month was October. Barry described Moore's contact with Oswald in his report and wrote, "Identification of this individual arose when he (Moore) asked him (Oswald) for identification as to proof of age for the purchase of two bottles of beer. Moore said he figured the man was over 21 but the store frequently required proof by reason of past difficulties with local authorities for serving beer to minors."
Store clerk Moore also told agent Barry, "Oswald returned in less than a half hour to buy another beer and two pieces of Peco Brittle at five cents each, which he consumed on the premises." Store clerk Moore remarked to Oswald, in the form of a question, "Candy and beer?" as Moore considered this to be an odd combination. Moore said, "The man seemed to be nervous while in the store pacing the aisles as he ate the candy."
Aletha Frair
The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald did not drive a car and did not have a driver's license. However, five days after the assassination LEE Oswald's driver's license turned up at the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS) in Austin. Aletha Frair was an employee who worked in the License Records Department, which was responsible for IBM computer records of all driver's licenses issued in the state of Texas. Five days after the assassination, on November 27, LEE Oswald's well-worn driver's license came into her division.
Mrs. Frair said, "One of the girls working in the file cabinets pulling driver's licenses to be renewed or because of change of name or because of death ran across a license and exclaimed, 'I have his license.....I have LEE Harvey Oswald's driver's license, right here.'" All of the employees within earshot--5 or 6 people--then rushed to see the license, and saw LEE Oswald's pink colored Texas driver's license. Mrs. Frair wrote: I saw with my own eyes the pink Texas driver's license--about 2 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches. The license had the name 'Lee Harvey Oswald' printed on the card as the licensee. The license was stained with some sort of brownish discoloration. Mrs. Frair said the brown stains on the dirty, worn license may have been caused by carrying the license in a brown wallet. The license was the talk of the office since everyone knew who Oswald was, and the reason his driver's license records and IBM card were being pulled from the active file was due to the fact that he had been killed. Fellow employee Mrs. Lee Bozarth stated categorically that she knew from direct personal experience there was a Texas driver's license and a file for LEE Harvey Oswald, and that it was pulled and given to a federal agency in early December, 1963. Texas Department of Public Safety procedures for issuing licenses and creating files was confirmed by her supervisor, Mr. Griffen, to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978.
Six other employees also saw Oswald's file including Ray Sundy, Joyce Bostic, Inez Leake, Gayle Scott, Peggy Smith, and Mrs. Ernie Isaacs. In 1978 House Select Committee investigator Gary Sanders contacted the Texas Department of Public Safety for information about Oswald's driver's license. After having a brief and curt conversation with Mrs. Seay Mr. Sanders wrote, "It is very obvious to me that if there are any records at the Department of Public Safety pertaining to LEE Harvey Oswald they are not going to release them."
A news reporter asked HARVEY Oswald "were you inside the building at the time of the shooting?" Oswald replied, "Naturally if I work in that building, yes sir." Had Oswald been outside on the steps, as some researchers claim, he most certainly would have said so, and he would have named other people who were on the steps with him. But Oswald never said he was outside on the steps, not to the news reporter and not to anyone. And not one of the people who were on the steps--Wesley Frazier, Ochus Campbell, Sarah Stanton, Billy Lovelady, and others never said that Oswald was outside on the steps with them. If people want to believe Oswald was outside on the steps then they have to explain why Oswald, on camera, said he was inside the building during the assassination.HARVEY OSWALD IN THE TSBD
A few minutes after HARVEY Oswald learned that President Kennedy had been shot he located and spoke with his supervisor and CIA contact Bill Shelley. I believe that it was Shelley who told Oswald to board the Marsalis Bus and meet his contact at the Texas Theater. If not Shelley, then who in the Book Depository told Oswald to board the Marsalis Bus and go to the Texas Theater? Someone, and I believe it was Bill Shelley, gave Oswald half of two one dollar bills and told him that his contact in the Texas Theater would show him the other half of the one dollar bills for identification.
HARVEY Oswald leaves Book Depository
In 1974 Dallas journalist Elzie Glaze met a woman who had been working for the Texas Book Depository since 1969. Her immediate supervisor was Bill Shelley, who Glaze met and then contacted on numerous occasions. In a 1989 letter Glaze wrote, "Mr. Shelley claims to have been an intelligence officer during World War II and thereafter joined the CIA." Shelley was Oswald's supervisor at the Book Depository, but his connections with Oswald could have been much deeper. Here is a photo of HARVEY Oswald handing out Fair Play for Cuba literature in front of the International Trade Mart building in New Orleans. There is a man standing behind Oswald and to his left with a very distinct hair style. When the photo of this man is compared with photos of Bill Shelley taken on November 22 the similarities are obvious. If the man in the photo was Bill Shelley, then his connection with HARVEY Oswald is much deeper.
HARVEY Oswald, wearing a long-sleeve brown shirt and carrying his blue/grey jacket, quickly left the Book Depository. His quick departure was pre-planned to make it appear as though Oswald was trying to quickly “escape” from the scene of the shooting. Minutes after HARVEY Oswald left the building it was Bill Shelley who told building supervisor Roy Truly that Oswald was missing.
HARVEY Oswald walked east on Elm Street and saw the Marsalis bus stopped in traffic near Griffin St. Oswald walked up to the bus and began pounding on the door. Driver Cecil McWatters opened the door and allowed HARVEY Oswald, and a blond woman, to board the bus around 12:40 PM. About the time HARVEY Oswald boarded the Marsalis bus a U.S. government employee named Stuart L. Reed photographed the front of McWatters' bus. Reed was a 30 year US Army veteran, who was then living in Panama, managing civilian employees under the auspices of the U.S. Army, which was in charge of the Panama Canal. Why would a US government employee, living and working in Panama, travel to Dallas, Texas and photograph the front of a nondescript city bus?
The Marsalis bus was soon stalled in traffic and about 4 minutes later HARVEY Oswald got up from his seat, obtained a bus transfer, and left the bus via the front door. The blond woman left the bus at the same time thru the rear door. This blond woman may have been following HARVEY Oswald, and may have followed Oswald to William Whaley's taxi. While the bus was stalled in traffic US government employee Stuart L. Reed took a photograph of the rear of the Marsalis Bus. Again, why would a US government employee, living and working in Panama, travel to Dallas, Texas and photograph the front and then the rear of the Marsalis Bus? This was very near the time two police officers boarded the bus, looking for HARVEY Oswald, who had left the bus only moments earlier.
A few minutes later Stuart Reed took a photo of the 6th floor window of the Book Depository, before this area was identified as the snipers nest. One hour later Stuart Reed took several photos of HARVEY Oswald as he was being escorted by police from the Texas Theater in handcuffs. US Government employee Stuart Reed, who lived and worked in Panama, took all of these photos which sequentially followed Oswald's movements from the time he left the Book Depository to his arrest at the Texas Theater.
Reed dropped his film off at a photo lab in Dallas, and then travelled to New Orleans to catch a boat and return to the Canal Zone in Panama. Prior to boarding the boat, Reed signed an authorization in New Orleans that allowed the FBI to pick up his developed photo slides in Dallas.
The FBI told the Warren Commission that a government executive (Reed), answering to the military, took the photos. This seemed to satisfy the Warren Commission, and Reed dropped out of sight without ever seeing his color slides or photos. If HARVEY Oswald had been killed by the two police officers while on the Marsalis bus, Reed's photos would have been on the front page of every newspaper and magazine.
After getting off the bus, HARVEY Oswald walked three blocks south on Lamar St. toward the Greyhound Bus station and got into William Whaley's taxi. Whaley said, "He wasn't in any hurry. He wasn't nervous or anything." Whaley said that Oswald was wearing a dark brown button-up shirt, a t-shirt, and a blue/grey jacket.
As HARVEY Oswald was walking to Whaley's taxi cab, LEE Oswald was seen getting into a Nash Rambler station wagon in Dealey Plaza. Prior to the shooting Richard Randolph Carr saw a man on the 6th floor of the Book Depository and said he was wearing glasses, a hat, and a tan sport coat. Carr saw the same man, moments after the shooting, walking south on Houston St. directly towards him. He said the man was wearing horn-rimmed glasses and was constantly looking back over his shoulder towards the Book Depository. When the man reached Commerce Street he turned east, walked one block to Record Street, and got into a 1961 or 1962 light colored Nash Rambler station wagon. The car was parked near the intersection of Commerce and Record, facing north. The station wagon was last seen by Mr. Carr heading north on Record Street toward Elm St.--one block east of the Book Depository. Traffic was stalled on Elm Street and the Nash Rambler was unable to turn left for several minutes.LEE Oswald
At 12:40 P.M., Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig was standing on the south side of Elm Street when he heard a shrill whistle coming from across the street. Craig saw a man with sandy brown hair, wearing faded blue trousers and a light colored shirt, hurrying toward the street. A light green Nash Rambler station wagon with a chrome luggage rack, driven by a husky latin man, with short, dark hair, was moving slowly west on Elm Street. The vehicle suddenly stopped and the man, a white male in his early 20's, wearing a light colored shirt, about 5'9” tall and 140-150 pounds, ran across the lawn that was adjacent to the Elm Street extension and got into the station wagon. Craig was unable to cross Elm Street, due to heavy traffic, and watched as the car drove west on Elm, under the triple underpass, and headed in the direction of Oak Cliff.
Marvin Robinson was driving his Cadillac west on Elm Street, directly behind the Nash Rambler station wagon. After crossing Houston he drove past the Book Depository and almost slammed into the back of the Nash Rambler when it suddenly stopped. Robinson noticed a white male, who he later identified as Oswald, hurry down the grass covered incline and enter the station wagon. He then followed the car as it drove under the triple overpass. Marvin Robinson's employee, Roy Cooper, was following Robinson in a different vehicle. Cooper remembered the Nash Rambler stopped so suddenly that his boss, Mr. Robinson, narrowly avoided running into the back of the Nash Rambler station wagon. Cooper saw a white male between 20 and 30 years of age, who he thought was Oswald, wave at the driver, hurry toward the car, and enter the vehicle. The FBI interviewed Marvin Robinson and Roy Cooper, but they never testified before the Warren Commission nor were their statements published in the Warren Volumes.
Mrs. Helen Forrest saw the same young man run from the side of the Book Depository and enter a Nash Rambler station wagon on Elm Street. Mrs. Forrest said, "If it wasn't Oswald, it was his identical twin." Mrs. Forrest was the first and only witness in Dealey Plaza to identify the man in the white shirt as "Oswald" or his identical twin.
Another witness, James Pennington, also saw the same man, in a white shirt, run from the side of the Book Depository and enter a Nash Rambler station wagon. After viewing photographs of Oswald on television, Pennington identified the man he saw get into the station wagon as "Lee Harvey Oswald."
These eye-witnesses, Craig, Robinson, Cooper, Forrest, and Pennington, saw a man who looked very much like HARVEY Oswald. But this man was NOT HARVEY Oswald, who was arrested by the police and shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby. These witnesses saw LEE Oswald, the man who had been impersonating HARVEY Oswald for several months for the purpose of setting him up as a “patsy.”
Photographer Jim Murray took a picture of the crowd standing in front of the Book Depository, and also captured the Hertz sign on the top of the Book Depository which read 12:40 pm. Murray's photo shows a man standing on the south of Elm Street, wearing a light-colored shirt, and looking at the light colored Nash Rambler station wagon. Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig can be seen standing on the east side of Elm Street, observing the man as he approaches the car. Craig described the driver to the Warren Commission, "Now, he struck me, at first, as being a colored male. He was very dark complected, had real dark short hair, and was wearing a thin white-looking Jacket....uh, it looked like the short windbreaker type, you know, because it was real thin and had the collar that came out over the shoulder (indicating with hands) like that- just a short jacket.
LEE Oswald left Dealey Plaza at 12:40 PM, wearing a white t-shirt. Fifteen minutes later he was seen wearing a white Eisenhower-type jacket on 10th St and carrying a .38 revolver. It is possible the jacket and the revolver were given to Oswald by the driver of the Nash Rambler station wagon? It is also possible that LEE Oswald picked up these items from Jack Ruby's apartment. A few minutes before 1:00 PM LEE Oswald was seen walking west, past the 10th St. Barber Shop, only 3 blocks from Jack Ruby's apartment. A minute later LEE Oswald was walking west on 10th St., 4 blocks from his pre-arranged meeting at 1:00 PM with Dallas police Capt. W. R. Westbrook and Officer J.D. Tippit.
It may seem hard to imagine or understand why two Dallas Police Officers would become involved in a plot to murder a fellow uniformed Dallas policeman in broad daylight in front of numerous eyewitnesses. However, as the following evidence will show, the murder of Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit was pre-arranged, as was Oswald's pre-arranged trip to the Texas Theater, and involved LEE Oswald and two or more Dallas Police officers. One of those police officers was 45 year old Capt. William Ralph Westbrook.
In 1963 Captain William Ralph Westbrook was 45 years old and in charge of personnel at Dallas Police headquarters. He had his own office, worked at a desk, and dressed in plain clothes. Westbrook's work, on a day to day basis, was more like a civilian than a police officer. Westbrook told the Warren Commission, "At the present time I am personnel officer. We conduct all background investigations of applicants, both civilian and police, and then we make--we investigate all personnel complaints--not all of them, but the major ones."
On November 22, around 12:31 PM, Mrs. Kinney, one of the police dispatchers, came into Westbrook's office and told him that shots had been fired at President Kennedy. Westbrook sent officers from his personnel office, Sergeants Stringer and Carver, and possibly Joe Fields and H.L. McGee, to the Texas School Book Depository. But how did Westbrook know to send his officers DIRECTLY to the Texas School Book Depository building when the earliest police dispatches reported gunshots from the grassy knoll area? Westbrook told the WC that he walked down the hall spreading the word and telling the other people that they needed some men down there--at the Book Depository--and that almost everybody left. Westbrook said that he "sat around" a while and then decided to walk to Dealey Plaza. Westbrook told the Warren Commission there wasn't a police car available to drive him to the Book Depository, but this was the first of many lies that Westbrook told the Warren Commission. Dallas Police car #207, assigned to Officer Jimmy Valentine, was in the basement parking area as were other police cars.
Westbrook told the Warren Commission that while walking from the police station to the Book Depository he stopped along the way to listen to transistor radio reports. This was the first of many lies that Weatbrook told to the Warren Commission. And Westbrook's lies can be read and understood again and again in his testimony. Westbrook told the Commission, "After WE reached the building [notice that Westbrook said WE, PLURAL, yet he told the WC he walked by himself to the Book Depository], I contacted my sergeant, Sgt. Stringer, and he was standing in front and so then I went into the building to help start the search. Westbrook said he went into the building to help "START THE SEARCH" BUT WHEN WESTBROOK FINALLY ARRIVED POLICE HAD ALREADY BEEN SEARCHING THE BOOK DEPOSITORY. Westbrook then said, "I was on the first floor and I had walked down an aisle and opened a door onto an outside loading dock. And when I came out onto this dock, one of the men hollered and said there had been an officer killed in Oak Cliff."
CAPT. WESTBROOK'S WARREN COMMISSION TESTIMONY ASIDE, HIS WHEREABOUTS FROM THE TIME HE WAS LAST SEEN AT THE POLICE STATION--CIRCA 12:35 PM--TO HIS ARRIVAL AT THE BOOK DEPOSITORY--AROUND 1:20 PM--ARE UNKNOWN. HIS STORY OF WALKING ALONE TO THE BOOK DEPOSITORY, AFTER THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS SHOT, IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE, AND THERE IS NO PROOF THAT WESTBROOK EVER WALKED TO DEALEY PLAZA OR WAS EVER IN THE BOOK DEPOSITORY. BUT WESTBROOK'S STORY, AS WE SHALL SEE, IS FULL OF LIES, BUT IT GAVE HIM AN ALIBI TO ACCOUNT FOR 40-50 MINUTES OF HIS TIME. THE PURPOSE OF MY WORK IS TO DETERMINE THE LIKELY WHEREABOUTS OF CAPT. WESTBROOK AND HIS ACCOMPLICE, RESERVE OFFICER SGT. KENNETH CROY, AND THEIR WHEREABOUTS FROM 12:35 THRU 1:20 PM ON THE AFTERNOON OF NOVEMBER 22, 1963.
RESERVE OFFICER SGT. KENNETH CROY
Sgt. Kenneth Croy was an unpaid, voluntary reserve officer with the Dallas Police. As a reserve officer Croy was not allowed to carry a gun and could only carry a nightstick. I believe Dallas Police reserve officer Sgt. Kenneth Croy was with Westbrook during Westbrook's missing 40-50 minutes. Croy was 26 years old, separated from his wife, and living with his parents on November 22. Croy told the Warren Commission that when President Kennedy was shot he was sitting in his car at City Hall--the same location and the same time that Capt. Westbrook was at City Hall (Police Headquarters). Croy said that after he learned that shots were fired at President Kennedy he left the police station and began to drive his car home. Croy told the Warren Commission that In downtown Dallas he was "hemmed in from both sides" by traffic on Main and Griffin for about 20 minutes. He testified that he then drove past the courthouse on Elm St. and asked police officers, whose names he did not know, if he could be of any assistance. Croy said that after the officers said "No" that he proceeded to drive home. Croy would have us believe that after shots were fired at the President, he left the police station and was told by unknown officers that his services were not needed, when many off-duty police officers were called at home and told to report for duty. Croy testified that while talking with the police officers in front of the courthouse his estranged wife "pulled up beside me" in her car. They began talking and then decided to go to lunch together at Austin's Barbecue, even though Croy and his wife were separated. But first, Croy said that he needed to change clothes at his parents' home. On the day of President Kennedy's assassination Croy would like us to believe that his priorities were to drive to his parents' house, change clothes, and have lunch with his estranged wife!!
CROY'S WARREN COMMISSION TESTIMONY ASIDE, HIS WHEREABOUTS FROM 12:30 PM UNTIL 1:10 PM ARE UNKNOWN. HIS STORY OF SITTING IN HIS CAR WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS SHOT, AND GETTING HEMMED IN WITH TRAFFIC FOR 20 MINUTES, GAVE HIM AN ALIBI TO ACCOUNT FOR NEARLY 3/4 OF AN HOUR OF HIS TIME. CROY WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE THAT ON THE DAY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS KILLED, ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE DAYS OF THE CENTURY, HE DECIDED TO HAVE LUNCH WITH HIS ESTRANGED WIFE AND GO HOME.
I do not believe that Westbrook walked to Dealey Plaza nor do I believe Westbrook was in the Book Depository. I do not believe that Croy spoke with police officers in front of the court house, or had lunch with his wife, or went home to change clothes. I believe Westbrook and Croy's stories and lies to the Warren Commission were an attempt to hide their real activities following the assassination of President Kennedy. I believe that around 12:37 PM Westbrook, along with Croy, drove to Dealey Plaza and parked Westbrook's unmarked, dark blue police car near the Book Depository.
After work HARVEY Oswald usually boarded the Beckley Ave bus next to the Book Depository. The Beckley bus went under the triple overpass, crossed over the Trinity River, turned left on North Beckley Ave., and Oswald normally deboarded close to his rooming house at Beckley and Zang. However, on November 22 HARVEY Oswald didn't board the Beckley bus. HARVEY Oswald, following orders, boarded the Marsalis Ave. bus driven by Cecil McWatters. Oswald's assignment was to go directly to the Texas Theater and meet his contact. The same time that Oswald boarded the bus, in the middle of the street, a woman also boarded the bus. The Marsalis bus route was to turn left on Houston St., at the Book Depository, continue south on Houston St., turn right, cross the Trinity River on the Houston St. Viaduct, and then turn left on Marsalis Ave. toward Jefferson Blvd. On the image above, follow the red dotted line.
It appears that HARVEY Oswald's intention may have been to deboard the bus when the bus stopped at Marsalis St. and Zang Blvd., which was across the street from the GLOCO station where Officer J.D. Tippit was sitting in his squad car. I believe that HARVEY Oswald was told that a police officer would be waiting at the GLOCO station to pick him up and drive him to the theater. Tippit's assignment may have been to pick up HARVEY Oswald, drive him to the Texas Theater, and then meet up with Capt. Westbrook and LEE Oswald for their pre-arranged meeting at 1:00 PM at 10th & Patton. Bus driver Cecil McWaters told the WC, "As I left Field Street... it is just a short distance on to Griffin Street, and that is when someone, a man, came up and knocked on the door of the bus, and I opened the door of the bus and he got on.... And that is about seven or eight blocks from the Texas Book Depository Building... I didn't pay any particular attention to him. He was to me just dressed in what I would call work clothes, just some type of little old jacket on.... I would say a cloth jacket... he just paid his fare and sat down on the second cross seat on the right." HARVEY Oswald's destination was the Texas Theater, where he was likely told that he was to meet up with a "contact" in the darkened theater sometime after 1:00 PM.
A few minutes after (HARVEY) Oswald boarded the Marsalis Ave. bus, it became stalled in traffic. McWatters said, "Well, I was sitting in the bus, there was some gentleman in front of me in a car, and he came back and walked up to the bus and I opened the door and he said, 'I have heard over my radio in my car that the President has been--I believe he used the word--'has been shot.'" McWatters said "that is when the gentleman decided he would get off the bus." Oswald got up from his seat, asked for a bus transfer, put the transfer in his shirt pocket, and got off the bus in the middle of the block, near Poydras and Lamar St. The woman who boarded the bus at the same time Oswald boarded the bus also requested a transfer, and left the bus the same time as Oswald left the bus.
The bus transfer that McWatters gave to HARVEY Oswald was found by police in HARVEY Oswald's shirt pocket 3 hours later, around 4:45 PM. The police contacted the Dallas Transit Company and spoke with a supervisor, who identified Cecil McWatters as the driver who issued the transfer. Two hours later, while driving the Marsalis bus past City Hall, McWatters was stopped by the police. McWatters told the Warren Commission, "Well, they (Dallas Police) stopped me; it was, I would say around 6:15 or somewhere around 6:15 or 6:20 that afternoon....they told me that they had a transfer that I had issued that was cut for Lamar Street at 1 o'clock, and they wanted to know if I knew anything about it. And I, after I looked at the transfer and my punch, said yes, that is the transfer I issued because it had my punch mark on it....the superintendent has a list, in other words, it would be just like this and every man has a punch and he has his name, and everything. In other words, if anyone calls in about a transfer or anything, I mean brings one in he can look right down the list by the punch mark and tell whose punch it is, and who it is registered to."
WILLIAM WHALEY'S TAXI
After leaving McWatters' bus HARVEY Oswald walked south on Lamar St. to the Greyhound Bus depot. Taxi driver William Whaley saw Oswald and told the WC, "He was walking south on Lamar from Commerce St. when I saw him.... He was dressed in just ordinary work clothes. It wasn't khaki pants but they were khaki material, blue faded blue color, like a blue uniform made in khaki. Then he had on a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it and he had on some kind of jacket, I didn't notice very close but I think it was a work jacket that almost matched the pants (blue/grey jacket--CE #163). He, his shirt was open three buttons down here. He said, 'May I have the cab?'.... And instead of opening the back door he opened the front door, which is allowable there, and got in.... And about that time an old lady, I think she was an old lady, I don't remember nothing but her sticking her head down past him in the door and said, 'Driver, will you call me a cab down here?'.... he [Oswald] said, 'I will let you have this one,' and she said, 'No, the driver can call me one.'" I have wondered for years if this woman was the same woman who got on the bus and off the bus the same time as HARVEY Oswald. If yes, then she was following Oswald.
McWatters continued, "I asked him where he wanted to go. And he said, '500 North Beckley.'" As Whaley drove he noticed that his passenger was wearing a shiny bracelet.
Whaley told the WC, "I always notice watchbands, unusual watchbands, and identification bracelets like these, because I make them myself....it was just a common stretchband identification bracelet. A lot of them are made of chain links and not stretchbands. Stretchbands are unusual because there is very few of them....this one was a stretchband....he had it on the arm next to me, which was the left arm.
Westbrook, with Croy, drove his unmarked dark blue police car to the TSBD
We know that after shots were fired at President Kennedy, Capt. Westbrook drove his unmarked dark blue police car, together with reserve Officer Kenneth Croy, from police headquarters to Dealey Plaza and arrived around 12:40 PM. Westbrook knew that HARVEY Oswald, according to plan, was supposed to be on Cecil McWatters’ Marsalis Ave. bus. Westbrook also knew that Officer Tippit was waiting for HARVEY Oswald to arrive on the Marsalis bus at or near the GLOCO station. I believe that after Westbrook parked his dark blue unmarked police car, he saw the Marsalis bus stopped near the Book Depository. Westbrook and Croy boarded this bus looking for HARVEY Oswald, but did not know that only a few minutes earlier HARVEY Oswald had de-boarded the bus.
Roy Milton Jones, a passenger on McWatters’ bus, told the FBI that two police officers came on the bus and searched passengers for weapons, only a few minutes after a young man--HARVEY Oswald--got off the bus. Jones said this man was wearing a light blue jacket and grey khaki pants. The presence of two police officers boarding McWatters' bus was not discussed nor investigated by the Warren Commission nor by the FBI nor by the Dallas Police. After failing to locate HARVEY Oswald on the bus Capt. Westbrook now knew that HARVEY Oswald would not be meeting up with Officer Tippit at or near the GLOCO station. Where was HARVEY Oswald? Why did he get off the bus? Westbrook now had to locate HARVEY Oswald and make sure that he arrived at the Texas Theater.
TIPPIT AT THE GLOCO STATION
Only 10 minutes after the President of the United States was murdered Officer Tippit was sitting in his patrol car at the GLOCO Station watching traffic cross the viaduct from Dallas to Oak Cliff.
It is obvious that Tippit was following orders, probably from Westbrook, and was somehow involved in the conspiracy. Tippit knew LEE Oswald and either knew HARVEY Oswald or knew about him. I believe that on November 22 Officer Tippit was told that his assignment was to make sure that both young men arrived safely at the Texas Theater--first HARVEY Oswald, who he was supposed to meet at the bus stop across the street from the GLOCO Station, and then LEE Oswald who he was to meet near 10th & Patton.
Around 12:45 PM, as Whaley was driving HARVEY Oswald in his taxi, Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit was observed by 5 witnesses sitting in his patrol car at the GLOCO station watching traffic. The GLOCO station was at 1502 N. Zang Blvd, just across the Trinity River from downtown Dallas via the Houston Street Viaduct. The 5 witnesses who saw Tippit sitting in his patrol car were photographer Al Volkland, his wife Lou, and three employees of the GLOCO station--Tom Mullins, Emmett Hollingshead, and J.B. "Shortly" Lewis. They all knew Tippit personally. The author believes that Tippit was waiting for HARVEY Oswald to arrive on the Marsalis Ave. bus, which turned left from Zang Blvd. onto Marsalis Ave., and then stopped, allowing passengers to deboard. But when HARVEY Oswald did not get off the bus at either Marsalis Ave. or Jefferson Blvd, Tippit knew there was a problem. Unknown to Tippit, HARVEY Oswald had already deboarded the Marsalis Ave. bus on Elm St. in Dallas. Around 12:52-12:53 Officer Tippit quickly left the GLOCO Station, hurried south on Lancaster Ave., and was likely following and monitoring McWatters’ bus as it drove south on Marsalis Ave. Tippit's route, from the GLOCO station to Jefferson Blvd. can be seen with the dotted purple line. Tippit was following the bus because he wanted to to see if, when, and where HARVEY Oswald would get off the Marsalis bus. At 12:54 PM Tippit was driving his patrol car south on Lancaster St., following the Marsalis bus, and reported his position to the dispatcher as "Lancaster & 8th." After the Marsalis bus turned left on Jefferson Blvd., with no sign of HARVEY Oswald, Tippit knew there was a problem.
Tippit turned right on Jefferson Blvd., and hurried to the Top 10 Record Store.
Tippit was known to store employees and asked to use the telephone, probably trying to contact Capt. Westbrook.
Tippit was in a hurry and, after asking a few customers to step aside, he placed a call. A minute later, apparently with no answer, Tippit hung up the phone and hurried to his police car. He began driving to 10th & Patton for his 1:00 PM meeting with Capt. Westbrook and LEE Oswald.
Around the time Tippit left the GLOCO station taxi driver William Whaley had already driven past the GLOCO station. Whaley continued on Zang Blvd., turned left on Beckley Ave., and drove past Oswald's rooming house.
Whaley said, "when I got pretty close to the 500 block at Neches and North Beckley which is the 500 block, he (HARVEY Oswald) said, "This will do fine," and I pulled over to the curb right there (circa 12:54 PM). He gave me a dollar bill, the trip was 95 cents. He gave me a dollar bill and didn't say anything, just got out and closed the door and walked around the front of the cab over to the other side of the street. Of course, traffic was moving through there and I put it in gear and moved on, that is the last I saw of him."
CAR 207
As William Whaley was driving HARVEY Oswald to his rooming house, Officer Jimmy Valentine left Dallas Police headquarters in police car #207 and drove Officer Gerry Hill and Dallas Morning news reporter Jim Ewell to the Book Depository, arriving around 12:50 PM.
DALLAS POLICE CAR #207
After Capt. Westbrook failed to find HARVEY Oswald on the Marsalis bus, he needed to locate HARVEY Oswald and make sure that he arrived at the Texas Theater. The most likely place to look for HARVEY Oswald was his rooming house on North Beckley. But Westbrook dared not drive his unmarked dark blue police car to Oak Cliff, looking for the man who would soon be accused of killing President Kennedy. Instead, Capt. Westbrook commandeered a nearby police car that just arrived at the Book Depository with Officer Jimmy Valentine driving, along with Officer Gerry Hill and Dallas Morning news reporter Jim Ewell.
Ewell said, “This officer, Jimmy Valentine, drove us back from east to west through downtown on the most circuitous route I can recall, and we were back there at the School Book Depository probably in less than two minutes….We found ourselves standing right out in the middle of the intersection of Houston and Elm.
Capt. Westbrook, along with Sgt. Croy commandeered police car #207 and drove directly to Oswald's rooming house in Oak Cliff, hoping to locate HARVEY Oswald. I believe Capt. Westbrook and Croy were the two police officers seen by Earlene Roberts driving slowly past 1026 N. Beckley, honking their horn, while Oswald was in his room changing clothes. Mrs.Roberts saw the car and told the FBI the police car was #207 with two occupants.
It is important to question and wonder why anyone in the Dallas Police Dept. would have any innocent reason to personally know or be acquainted with HARVEY Oswald prior to November 22, and to know where he was living. Capt. Westbrook knew all about HARVEY Oswald because Westbrook was involved in the pre-arranged plan to murder Officer Tippit and then blame HARVEY Oswald for Tippit’s murder and for the murder of President Kennedy. When Earlene Roberts heard a car honking the horn she looked out the window, saw a police car, and told the FBI the police car was #207. The occupants of car #207 were not only co-conspirators, they were a direct link to the people who conspired to murder President Kennedy.
Earlene Roberts' identification of police car #207, driving past 1026 N. Beckley at 1:00 PM and honking the horn, was a very serious problem. How would the Dallas police explain two of their officers driving past the rooming house of the man accused of killing President Kennedy only a half hour earlier? Who were these two police officers? Who ordered them to 1026 N. Beckley?
Officer Jimmy Valentine had the keys to car #207 and would only have given the keys to a fellow police officer, and Valentine would have known their identity. But Jimmy Valentine was never investigated nor questioned. Why not? Valentine should have been interviewed by DPD internal affairs, the FBI, the Secret Service, and/or the Warren Commission and asked who borrowed his squad car that afternoon. Valentine should have provided a written statement or affidavit as to either the location of car #207 or the officer to whom he gave the keys to car #207 prior to 1:00 PM on 11/22/63. The opportunity to identify and connect the police officers in car #207 with (HARVEY) Oswald was now lost, and I believe was intentionally lost.
To resolve this problem, the Warren Commission requested Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry to determine the whereabouts of car #207 at 1:00 PM. A brief "letter of explanation" was prepared and given to Chief Curry, who then forwarded this letter to the Warren Commission. This "letter of explanation" claimed that car #207 was parked at the Book Depository all afternoon. But this letter was not prepared or signed by the department of internal affairs, nor by Officer Jimmy Valentine, or his Sergeant, or his Lieutenant, or his Platoon Commander--Capt. Cecil Talbert. This letter was prepared and signed by the man in charge of the personnel department--Capt. W.R. Westbrook--the man who I believe drove car #207 past Oswald's rooming house that was seen by Earlene Roberts. We must therefore wonder why Dallas police Chief Curry would select Capt. Westbrook to investigate the whereabouts of car #207 and then prepare and sign this letter.
Officer Jimmy Valentine was not interviewed by the Warren Commission and there is no confirmation that Valentine gave the car keys to his sergeant, Sgt. Putnam, or anyone. When St. Putnam was interviewed by the Warren Commission he was not asked, nor did he offer, any information relating to keys to police cars given to him at the Book Depository on November 22. Putnam told the Warren Commission, "he assisted in covering the Book Depository Building and aiding in searching the building."
After getting out of Whaley's taxi, HARVEY Oswald walked to his rooming house and arrived a minute or two before 1:00 PM. According to housekeeper Earlene Roberts, Oswald arrived "in his shirtsleeves". On November 22 we need to remember that HARVEY Oswald wore his blue/grey jacket to Wesley Frazier's house in Irving, TX., wore this jacket when he arrived at the Book Depository, wore the same jacket on McWatters bus, and wore the same jacket in William Whaley's taxi. Oswald was likely carrying his blue/grey zippered jacket in hand when he entered the boarding house. HARVEY Oswald spent a minute or two changing his pants and his work shirt (t-shirt) before leaving. Housekeeper Earlene Roberts saw Oswald as he left the rooming house. She said "I noticed he had a jacket he was putting on. I recall the jacket was a dark color and it was the type that zips up the front." Mz. Roberts last saw Oswald near the corner of Beckley and Zang, on the right side of the rooming house.
We know that Oswald was arrested for killing Officer Tippit but Capt. Fritz, in charge of the homicide department, never asked Oswald a single question about the Tippit murder. Nobody knew how or when Oswald arrived at 10th & Patton and met up with Officer Tippit. The Dallas Police then interviewed many residents in Oak Cliff to determine if anyone had seen Oswald walking toward 10th & Patton. Not one resident saw Oswald walking anywhere in Oak Cliff during the afternoon of November 22. It is obvious that HARVEY Oswald never walked or arrived at 10th & Patton, but somehow he arrived at the Texas Theater at 1:07 PM, only a few minutes after he was last seen standing on the corner of Beckley St. and Zang.
