Tippit Murderer Identified

[Editor 1/10/2022: This Chronicle is yet another one which must bite the dust. Contrary to aversions in this Chronicle, we now strongly endorse John Williams' explanation of the murder of J D Tippit. LEE Oswald, a doppelganger for HARVEY Oswald, murdered Tippit under the watchful eye of Dallas Police Department Captain and murderer William Westbrook]

One of the most earth shattering breakthroughs in the Kennedy murder case flew under the radar late last year to reveal the murderer of J D Tippit. Not only that but we also discovered that Lee Oswald was not the boarder at 1026 N Beckley.

 

Before proceeding, we have to salute Hasan Yusuf for his groundbreaking research on the Tippit case. His findings have far reaching impact, and will materially alter the research landscape for both Kennedy and Tippit.

 

The explanation offered by Yusuf is very compatible with our thesis that an Oswald look alike was at many of the places Oswald was allegedly seen. As a caution, none of this should be misconstrued as a vindication of John Williams' dual Oswald theory - a byzantine story which will lead you to the office of A Beautiful Mind.

 

Nonetheless, this objection to Williams' theory does not mean that there were no Oswald doubles around the time of the assassination as indeed there were - a fact attested to by Yusuf's diligent research.

 

Tippit's murderer was a professional assassin by the name of Larry Crafard, who at the time of the assassination was a former US Army soldier who was discharged under honorable conditions most likely due to his homosexuality.

 

He worked for Jack Rubenstein at the Carousel Club where he served as general handyman. He was frequently described by family and acquaintances with various unflattering adjectives such as "creepy", sloppy, unstable, "rotten disposition", "pervert" and others along those lines.

 

In the early 1960s he worked as an assassin in San Francisco prior to moving to Dallas. While in Dallas he often used the alias Harvey Lee or O H Lee which was a play on Lee Harvey Oswald and designed to confuse people after hearing the incessant repetition of "Lee Harvey Oswald", a repetition designed to confuse. Aside from Crafard's slovenly appearance, Yusuf spends considerable time describing his physical features and Crafard's similarity to Oswald.

 

While Crafard is described as somewhat dark complected, he is also frequently described as ruddy, with rosacea a possible explanation for his skin pigmentation. This characteristic is important because it is one cited frequently by witnesses who claimed that they saw Oswald in certain places.

 

Even more important is Crafard's facial similarity to Oswald. In one particular case an FBI agent showed Mrs James Willie Walker a picture of Oswald as a means of identifying the man she met in October 1963 who introduced himself as Oswald Lee. Walker reluctantly identified the man in the photo as the man she met. However, she was not convinced that the 2 men were the same, the most reasonable explanation being that she was correct for she had in fact met Crafard impersonating Oswald.

 

But Walker was not the only one to be overcome by a case of mistaken identity. Helen Markham who witnessed the murder of Tippit; Ronald Fischer who saw a man in the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository resembling Oswald; Officer Marrion Baker who saw a man going down from the 4th floor in a light jacket later identified as Oswald; Domingo Benevides who witnessed the murder of Tippit; Julia Postal the Texas Theater ticket agent who sold "Oswald" a ticket; and officer Roger Craig who witnessed "Oswald" entering a Nash Rambler all gave tentative but inconclusive testimony that the man they witnessed was indeed Lee Oswald. Unfortunately they mistook Larry Crafard for Lee Oswald.

 

One other witness who was also coerced into faulty testimony was Earline Roberts, the housekeeper at the boarding house on 1026 North Beckley Avenue where Oswald allegedly stayed. Yusuf provides convincing evidence that Oswald did not stay there. Where did the legend come from that he did? The information came from Dallas Police officer Gerald Hill who was one of Tippit's murderers.

 

Thus history has been sorely abused by the false testimony of Hill and the willing complicity of Allen Dulles and John J McCloy of the so-called Warren Commission. There is actually no substantive evidence that Oswald stayed at the North Beckley boarding house, and is probably the reason that the CIA closed it from visitors for the past 50 years. In fact it was Crafard who stayed there, and who left the house soon after the murder of President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, and was picked up by Gerald Hill to murder Tippit.

 

One other person who mistook Crafard for Oswald was Donald P Norton, a former CIA agent who was sent to Monterrey Mexico in March 1962 to deliver 50,000 USD to Crafard for what we believe was the plot to murder Kennedy.

 

The implications of these discoveries are enormous, and must await a future posting to fathom their depths. But the murderers of Tippit have been identified, and we only need tie up the loose ends.

 

There is much more in Yusuf's article which we annotate below. While we encourage researchers to read the full article, we also warn them that it is not a literary gem. However, the value of the article is great enough that such deficiencies must be overlooked.

While Yusuf is much more cautious in drawing conclusions than we are, we correlate his findings with so much other known evidence that the conclusion is ineluctable that Larry Crafard was the Oswald double who murdered J D Tippit.

Reference
Hasan Yusuf, Did Larry Crafard kill J. D. Tippit?, The Lone Gunman Myth, December 5, 2014, accessed 5/7/2015.

Copyright 2015 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Why the DPD Murdered Tippit

[Editor's Note 5/2/2021: Our views about who murdered J D Tippit have evolved significantly since first publishing this article. We believe that John Armstrong's thesis that Captain Westbrook, along with an accomplice, of the DPD murdered Tippit.]

We have published a number of exploratory articles on the murder of Dallas Police Department officer J D Tippit who was lethally assailed in the aftermath of the killing of President John Kennedy in Dealey plaza on November 22, 1963, attempting to determine who killed him. After piecing together the relevant data, we have concluded firmly that Tippit was murdered by the DPD because he was attempting to assist Lee Oswald escape from his certain death trap.

 

The preceding paragraph is pregnant with assumptions and implications which we will unpack. The first point to jump out at the casual reader is that we reject with vehemence the pack of lies known as the Warren Commission Report which was none other than obstruction of justice by the murderers, one of whose leading elements was Allen Dulles working for banksters such as Nelson Rockefeller.

 

The main lie of the WCR is that Lee Oswald murdered the president, a known obfuscation which Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach laid out in a memo to Bildeberger member Bill Moyers for Lyndon Johnson. The other lie of this tawdry filth was that Oswald murdered J D Tippit. There isn’t a scintilla of evidence for either assertion, but with the weight of a criminal junta behind the lies, they have assumed the stature of truth.

 

The reality of the murder of Tippit is darker and more grisly than most can imagine. Ariel Sharon stated bluntly to a reporter circa 1982 that he frequently murdered Jews to score political points. Just as Sharon was a murderer of the highest order, so was the Dallas Police Department. For not only were they involved in the murder of the President, but they also murdered one of their own – not to score political points so much as to thwart an escape plan.

 

If Oswald had lived, the lies of the coup members would have been exposed for the crock that they were and still are. Hence the CIA planners required that Oswald be murdered. But why would they want to murder Tippit.

 

Tippit is an interesting character – sometimes hailed as a good man; other times vilified as a corrupt cop. Our conclusion, after much vacillation, is that he was by and large a decent man with some flaws, as we all have. Much of the biography demeaning Tippit is written to undermine any sympathy for him and to cover up his murder by DPD acting in concert with the CIA and Secret Service.

 

At the end of the day, we conclude that Tippit was a responsible and loving family man who got in over his head when he attempted to assist Oswald escape to Mexico.

 

Oswald had become dissatisfied with his career with the CIA, knowing that he was skating on thin ice with them after the debacle in Mexico City. He and Judyth Baker had planned to escape to Mexico, perhaps with the assistance of David Ferrie, to lay low for a while. Oswald knew that the CIA was planning to murder the president, but thought that on loan to the FBI that he had a chance to thwart it.

 

In any event, Oswald knew too much about the seamy crimes of the CIA and Dr Alton Oschner in New Orleans, and thus became a threat to the CIA crime mob. He had told Baker in vague terms that he knew someone in Dallas who liked kids who would help him escape the firestorm following the murder of Kennedy.

 

In private discussions with Baker, it is clear that the person to whom Oswald referred was Tippit. He was known for his fondness for his children, a trait he shared with Oswald who also very much liked kids.

 

We now believe that the police car which Mrs Roberts heard and saw was indeed Tippit’s, who had agreed to pick up Oswald to take him to Red Field airport not far from the neighborhood where Oswald lived. The extra uniform in the car most likely would have provided Oswald with the necessary credentials to pass through whatever security barriers Oswald would face. The uniform was too small for Tippit.

 

The stories claiming that Tippit was prowling the neighborhood in the vicinity of 10^th and Patton are probably correct. Having missed Oswald at his rooming house on Beckett, Tippit was looking for him in an area they had agreed upon – and one which brought them closer to Jack Ruby’s residence, which was only a few short blocks away.

 

We know of a witness, who died in the early 1990s, who saw a uniformed police officer walk down the drive way where Tippit was murdered to make sure that he was dead. There was another cop involved who left out the back alley.

 

Apparently Tippit agreed to help Oswald escape his entrapment as a patsy. However, a fake Oswald actually went to the rooming house to steal clothing to implicate Oswald in the Tippit murder. Oswald escaped to the Texas Theater directly from the Texas School Book Depository either to hide out to wait for a contact who never appeared, or to evade the cops whom he knew were on his trail.

 

Regardless of the exact details, we now strongly believe that Tippit was murdered because he, too, like Oswald, knew too much and was helping the enemy. The cop killer was the Dallas Police Department which included the very highest echelons of the crime center. It was the only way to cover up the crime of the century.

Reference
Private conversations with Judyth Baker.

Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

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.

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