Further Details on the Tippit Murder

Our continuing search for leads in the J D Tippit murder has yielded a bumper crop of information which will help us better develop a theory of the crime. We can add one more murderer to our list and remove another.

We previously opined that Billy Lovelady may have been a murder suspect of Tippit’s. We reject that thesis on two grounds. The first is that he is not a trigger puller as far as we now know. He was a co-worker of Lee Oswald who was later Photoshopped in place of Oswald in the Altgens6 photo. Lovelady did go along with the murder after he was told what he must do, and was rewarded with his own trucking company in Denver, CO. Unfortunately one of the CIA’s silencers got to him to ensure that he didn’t accidentally spill the beans. He made his bargain with the Devil and lost.

 

We have put forward the name of Roscoe White, a known Oswald imposter, as the murderer, and still think that he is the most likely suspect. This theory received a boost when we came across the story from Into the Midnight of a witness T F White who saw a 1957 4 door Plymouth with a suspiciously acting man, so proceeded to get the license plate number.  White got a good look at the driver, whom he later identified as Oswald when he saw him on TV that evening. However, Oswald was in the theater and not Tippit’s murderer.

 

This means that Roscoe White is definitely one of Tippit’s killers.

 

The license plate was traced back to Carl Mather (b 10/22/1927), meaning that Mather may have loaned this vehicle to White. Mather was an employee of Collins Radio, a major defense contractor who supplied communications equipment to the military going back to World War 2.

 

But the story is even more interesting because Mather was a “good” friend of the Tippits whom J D had met in 1958. In fact the Mathers went to visit the widow Marie from around 3:30 – 5:00 PM to express their fake condolences.

 

We do not overlook the possibility that Mather was framed, or someone took his identity to deceive. However, during subsequent investigations of this story, only his wife Barbara was ever interviewed - a preposterous tact since the car was in Carl's name. The HSCA even refused to interview Mather under a grant of immunity.

We do know that Mather later worked on Air Force 2 installing radio equipment, and we do know that Johnson was a murderer of the president. At this point we are not certain how Mather relates to Tippit's murder, but he does in a very strange way.

 

Collins also supplied the communications and command post equipment for the Kennedy murder. This command post is shown as a trailer in a photo disseminated by Jim Fetzer which we believe is one of the Altgens photos. It is striking to see the trailer in the background which sticks out like a sore thumb and so incongruently. Clearly it was a command post.

 

The executives of Collins Radio were extremely angry with Kennedy for curtailing spending plans affecting them, many of which were slated for Vietnam.

 

So to date, we have identified 3 Tippit murderers:  Roscoe White, and at least 1 unidentified Dallas Police Department officer, and an accomplice with White. Gerald Hill, another DPD officer, is also likely part of the conspiracy to murder Tippit. And we add Carl Mather as a person of interest, if not suspect, his friendship with Tippit meaning very little to us.

 

The interesting aspect of this story is the possibility that Tippit was Badge Man seen in the famous Moorman photo which Jack White deciphered. We had rejected this thesis based upon analysis by Duke Lane who developed a plausible case that Tippit was nowhere near Dealey as his police transmission records document.

 

But there are a couple of holes in the theory. The first is that Michael T Griffith, an excellent Kennedy assassination researcher, reported that the police tape of Tippit had been dubbed to give his location as something other than it was. Thus, with evidence being tampered, the likelihood of Tippit’s location reports may be fabricated. And given the communications expertise provided by Collins Radio, it is quite possible the locations and communication with Tippit were faked.

 

The other hole is that an enlisted man at the time, Gordon Arnold, who was standing in front of the picket fence on the grassy knoll taking pictures, was assaulted by a man in police uniform after the ambush who was crying and demanding that Arnold give him his camera. The policeman held a weapon, kicked Arnold, and took the film.

 

The behavior of the gunman suggests that it may have been Tippit, although we are not dogmatic about the point – yet.

 

What we can conclude with confidence about the story is that gunfire came from the grassy knoll and someone dressed as a police officer fired the shot. We believe that it was indeed a Dallas Police officer. The great debate will rage whether the police records uphold Tippit being where they said he was, or if they were faked to show him where he wasn’t in order to hide his presence at the grassy knoll.

 

Given that so many people were involved in Tippit’s murder, and many of them DPD, the case for evidence alteration is powerful.

 

For this outing, we produced a more complete list of Tippit’s murders, with at least 2-3 more to go. We will also plan an essay explaining why he was murdered.

Copyright 2013 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

40 Minutes Which Sealed a Lie

The 40 minutes between the murder of President John Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 PM and the arrival of Temple Bowley at the murder scene of Dallas Police Department officer J D Tippit is shrouded in myths and lies which sealed the Lie about Lee Oswald. We will explain.

 

We always make the disclaimer that we consider the myth that Lee Oswald murdered the president and the Tippit as the vilest of lies produced in American history. There is not a scintilla of evidence, let alone proof, that Oswald committed either act, and much to demonstrate that he did not. But we have covered that elsewhere.

 

The Warren Commission presented the story that after murdering the president, Oswald left the Texas School Book Depository by foot to catch a bus, and some say cab, to return to his boarding house, change clothes, murder Tippit, and then hide out in the Texas Theater on Jefferson Street in the Oak Cliff community of Dallas - all within 40 minutes. This nonsense is poppycock.

 

Dallas Police Officer Roger Craig witnessed Oswald run down the grassy knoll to enter a Nash Rambler station wagon, destination unknown to Craig. However, we surmise that Oswald went directly to the Texas Theater, or was perhaps dropped off at a point where he picked up a bus or cab to the theater. In any event, he did NOT go to his boarding house.

 

Oswald’s predicament was that he did not participate in the crime of the century according to plan, and needed a way to escape. He had informed his mistress Judyth Vary Baker that he wanted to escape the country because he knew that the CIA was zeroing in on him for elimination.

 

When he arrived at the theater at about 1:00 – 1:07 PM according to theater witnesses, he sat down right next to several people in a rather empty theater – very odd behavior to say the least. The reason for his odd movements was that he was attempting to locate his contact which could have either been another assassination handler, or his escape contact.

 

In the event it was the former, we must understand that Oswald was in the assassination plot to thwart or undermine it. Indeed he attempted on at least 2 occasions to notify the FBI of an impending attack on the president. Therefore, he would most likely be given his next assignment or movement at an obscure location.

 

In the second scenario, which we believe is more likely, Oswald was looking for an angel to take him away from the CIA while the heat subsided. One such possibility is David Ferrie, an odd fellow with whom Oswald worked closely on the Oschner cancer project in New Orleans over the summer.

 

There is good evidence supporting that scenario as Ferrie is known to have made a flight to Dallas the evening of the 22d but then quickly turned around for home realizing that Oswald’s case was now hopeless.

 

But many will object vehemently to this scenario because the Warren Commission said otherwise; to which we offer you some of our prime ocean front property in Topeka.  What the Warren Commission Report and independent news sources reported is that Oswald was seen by Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper at his boarding house, enter the house and quickly leave without saying a word. But there is more to the story.

 

“Oswald” did not say a word as he entered or left because it was not Lee Harvey Oswald – speaking would have undermined his ploy to impersonate Oswald. But there is more to know about Roberts. She was a widow with limited vision, blind in one eye, and faltering in the other. She testified before the Warren Commission that a friend urged her to turn on the television a couple of minutes before “Oswald” arrived. She also told the commission that she had been a police informant, an activity in which we strongly believe she was still engaged at the time.

 

She made some rather dramatic statements during her testimony:

Mr. Ball. Did a police car pass the house there and honked?
Mrs. Roberts. Yes.
Mr. Ball. When was that?
Mrs. Roberts. He came in the house.
Mr. Ball. When he came in the house?
Mrs. Roberts. When he came in the house and went to his room, you know how the sidewalk runs?

The astonishing statement is that Oswald came in the house at the moment the Dallas Police dropped off Tippit, after which they honked to alert Roberts to be in position to observe "Oswald" enter the house. She testified that this was a communication method they had used before, so she was quite comfortable with it.

 

So Earlene so happens to be at the television set fiddling with the antenna to get a better picture reception, because the DPD called to alert her a few minutes prior to get into that position, when the police drop off “Oswald”, toot twice on their horn to give the final warning, and drive off.

 

It should also be noted that Earlene’s sister was an apartment owner in Dallas who was quite familiar with Jack Ruby, and in fact seeking to do business with him. Thus Mrs Roberts' connections with the criminal elements involved in the murder are well established.

 

In any event, Roberts can now testify that she saw “Oswald” come into the house, change clothes, and walk out with a light colored jacket. Her last spotting of him was waiting for a bus near the house. As with plausible deniability, the murderers now have a plausible witness to place Oswald wherever they want him.

 

‘Now, who was this “Oswald”?’ you may ask. There are two candidates both of whom we believe are correct. The first candidate is Billy Lovelady who, though older, bore a striking resemblance to Oswald and was indeed seen at the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the assassination. His height was close enough to Oswald’s to make a good impression on the half blind Roberts.

 

We believe that he entered the house to get the coat, and then was then taken back to the Dallas Police Department. Indeed Jim Fetzer has a still image of Lovelady at the Dallas Police Department at 2 PM.

 

The other candidate was Roscoe White about whom we discussed his impersonation of Oswald in the famous back yard photo with him holding a gun. However, he was 2-3 inches too tall, a difference which even Roberts may have noticed.

 

Thus our opinion is that Lovelady gave the coat to White who then took it with him to the murder site of Tippit who, we believe, was lured onto 10^th Street to make a special rendezvous after being ordered into the Oak Cliff community by the DPD – an area which was not even close to his normal assignment.

 

The lure, in our estimation, was his former mistress Johnnie Maxie Witherspoon who lived very close to the murder spot. Although she claimed that she and Tippit had broken off their affair in the summer, she is either lying, or she put out for a last tango on 10^th Street.

 

On the way to a tryst or meeting with his former paramour, he stumbled across someone he mistook for Oswald – an incident which assumes prior acquaintance, a relationship about which we are unprepared to offer a dogmatic assertion.

 

In any event, one man accosted Tippit who emerged from his car with his weapon drawn, shot him 3 times, and then was shot in the head by another assailant who was described as shorter and in shorts. Thus we have Roscoe White murdering Tippit, along with an accomplice who then drove White to the Texas Theater where he made a grand entrance.

 

One very curious fact which many do not know is that an important witness observed the murder of Tippit from a bird’s eye view from her 2d floor bedroom. Doris Holan saw a police car parked in the drive way in front of which Tippit had parked to talk to White. She saw Tippit murdered, then the police car rolled very slowly forward while another man walked down to confirm that Tippit was dead. The police car then reversed and left out the alley.

 

Tippit was murdered about 1:06 PM but Officer Temple Bowley just happened to drive up by 1:10 PM which is 12 minutes earlier than “official” reports show the arrival of an officer. Was Bowley the driver of the vehicle in the drive way?

 

White would have arrived at the theater about 5-10 minutes later, but when he did do so, he was quite boisterous about it, catching the attention of the ticket agent who called police when he failed to pay for his ticket. Now why a freeloader would command the attention of 4-5 police officers is unknown, but 4-5 officers showed up in short order.

 

The importance of getting Oswald’s coat cannot be overstated for it shows that a carefully crafted plan had been set in motion to murder Oswald as well as Tippit. Only someone a few lights short of a Christmas tree could consider the wallet and coat found at the Tippit crime scene evidence of anything but a juvenile frame-up.

 

Part of the reason for the murder of Tippit was to lock up Oswald and then murder him – if indeed the original plan was not to murder him sooner. The other reason was to brand Oswald a murderer – a man who never hurt anyone – except his wife, but that is a matter for another story.

 

The purpose of leaving the bullet casings, the wallet, and coat at the crime scene was to implicate Oswald, and was evidence that both men were targeted for murder. But when one claims that Oswald was a “lone nut”, then details about the planted evidence at the crime scene can be brushed off with limited comment.

 

Whatever happened to Roger and Earlene? When Roger refused to change his testimony about the 6^th floor crime scene and Nash Rambler, the police department turned on Craig with a vengeance. Several assassination attempts were made on his life. In desperation he finally committed suicide in 1975, or so they say.

 

Roberts’ indiscretions did not go unpunished either. She we harassed constantly by the police, day and night, who saw to it that she was quickly fired from any place she was hired for work. She was found in her apartment suffering from a heart attack and taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital where she died in 1966. We believe that she was murdered.

 

Oswald was a patsy who had nothing to do with the plot to murder the president or Tippit. The truth continues to develop, even 50 years after the crime.

Copyright 2013 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Who Killed Officer J. D. Tippit?

The highly flawed and criminal Warren Commission Report stated that not only had Lee Oswald murdered the President but that he also murdered Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. But is there evidence for this assertion which would stand up in a court of law? Unless the court is made up of corrupt, accessories-after-the-fact jurists as composed the Warren Commission, then the answer to that question is emphatically no.

Absolutely no legally sustainable evidence has been produced placing Oswald in the presence of Tippit. The Warren commission made up a fictitious timeline to fabricate a story about Oswald leaving the Texas Book Depository immediately after the assassination so that he could be placed in the Texas Theater at the required time.

Reality contradicts the lies of the Warren Commission. In the first place, witness Acquilla Clemons witnessed two men who murdered Tippit. She said, ‘One was “kind of heavy” and the other “was tall and thin and wore light khaki trousers and white shirt,”’ according to Mark Lane’s rendition of her testimony used for one of his documentary films. After the murder, she said that the two men ran in opposite directions – an observation supported by other eye witnesses.

Four bullets of two manufactures matching the 4 bullets recovered from his body were eventually discovered by the police. Of course the Warren Commission could not be bothered with inconvenient evidence, so they dismissed Clemons’ testimony as “Speculations and Rumors.”

For her important witness, the Dallas Police Department sent two of its uniformed armed thugs to her house to threaten her with silence. They warned her that if she talked to the Warren Commission she ‘”might get killed.”’ So perhaps the Commission did her a favor by not calling her to testify.

The other nail in the coffin of the Warren Commission’s Tippit Theory is the testimony of decorated and highly promoted Dallas deputy sheriff Roger Craig whom the CIA murdered prior to his testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations on May 15, 1975.

Craig had observed Oswald leaving the TSBD in light colored Nash Rambler belonging to Mrs. Paine approximately 15 minutes after the assassination - completely obliterating the Warren Commission’s fantasy timeline for Oswald. With that timeline in tatters, so is the supposition that Oswald could be where he was asserted to be at the time he was asserted to be for the murder of Tippit.

Finally, corroborating information about a double Oswald comes from two men covered in JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass. One, a mechanic, T. F. White working for Mack Pate Garage, spotted the double Oswald in a red Falcon sitting in the parking lot of El Chico’s restaurant across the street from the auto shop where he worked. The alert mechanic wrote down the license plate number - after getting a full frontal view of the Oswald impersonator - which traced back to a CIA high tech communications manufacturer's Plymouth. When subpoenaed to appear before the House Select Committee on Assassinations some 15 years later, Carl Amos Mather - the owner of the vehicle and Collins Radio which later merged with Rockwell International - refused to do so without total immunity from prosecution.

That same faux Oswald was seen on a flight from Dallas later that afternoon by Air Force Staff Sergeant Robert Vinson. He was told he could board a just arriving plane from Andrews Air Force Base on 11/22. Unfortunately for the CIA, Vinson was an accidental passenger. When the plane landed in Dallas, instead of Colorado Springs after the pilot announced the shooting of President Kennedy at 12:29p, it was on a sandy air strip just south of Dallas – still visible from across the river. Two men boarded – one whom Vinson told his wife later that weekend looked just like Oswald whom he had seen on TV during the coverage of the assassination.

One of the men was a tall Latino and the other was an Oswald twin. Thus these two men match the two men whom Ms. Clemmons had witnessed murdering J. D. Tippit. Vinson was able to confirm, from a retired USAF Major who had flown over 100 flights on similar C-54s, that plane he flew on was indeed a CIA plane.

With the heavy preponderance of evidence in favor of Lee Oswald, we conclude emphatically that he did not kill J. D. Tippit. Tippit's murderer is the man Clemmons and Vinson saw - a man initimately associated with the CIA and most likely a CIA agent.

References
Last Word, Mark Lane
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, James Douglass

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