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.

Fake Oswald in Backyard Photo Identified

One of the “convincing proofs” that Lee Oswald murdered the president was the set of photos found in his garage showing him holding a rifle. The identity of the person holding the rifle has been identified as Roscoe White, further substantiating the case that the CIA murdered the president.

 

The preposterous idea that a man holding a rifle convicts him of a crime is a Nazi idea as old as crooked justice itself, one which any first year law student could obliterate. The second year law student might wish to take on the quality of the evidence which is a document subject to fabrication as this one is. And the ambitious 3d year law student might take on the identity of the photo subject.

 

On all three counts, the so-called evidence fails, and does so miserably.

 

Roscoe White was a CIA operative who was planted on the Dallas Police force as a photographer. According to his son Ricky, he went to the police academy in January of 1964. His son also disclosed the existence of his father’s diary, in 1988, in which he kept notes in and around the time of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.

 

We do not doubt the authenticity of the diary as an artifact produced by Roscoe; however, we do not accept as reliable the accounts contained therein. White claimed to be an assassin of Kennedy but we have our strong doubts. Nonetheless Roscoe is an interesting character in the Kennedy assassination.

 

White was a Marine buddy of Oswald who shared an uncanny resemblance to Oswald, and must therefore be counted among the Oswald doubles which have been identified over the years. White’s value was his similarity to Oswald which allowed him to make a reasonable impersonation of him in the famous backyard photo of him holding the Mannlicher Caracano rifle which the Warren Commission theorized was the murder weapon. Actually they did more than theorize – they framed Oswald with it.

 

The FBI supposedly discovered the 2 photos on November 23d in Oswald’s garage, claiming that is all there was even though the evidence enumeration showed 4 photos. A third photo emerged a few years after the Warren Report was published, but the 4^th and most interesting one came even later when White’s wife revealed it, thus creating a strong link between her husband and the forged evidence.

 

A photographic expert identified the person as White by comparing chin features with Oswald, but nailed the case by identifying a poorly healed wrist fracture which appears on all of the White photos but not on known photos of Oswald. Thus White was indeed the subject which the CIA used to frame Oswald in the photo.

 

There is some speculation that White murdered Tippit, a speculation we find most plausible, but still requiring additional analysis.

 

Geneva White worked for Jack Ruby at the Carousel Club and heard her husband in conversation with him a couple of times planning the murder. White was financially rewarded for his dubious services but was himself murdered in 1971 in an "accident."

Reference

Roscoe White: Shooter of JFK, J.D. Tippit and member of the ‘JFK Witness Elimination Team’

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