On 13 May, 22:57, cdddraftsman <cdddrafts...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://www.officer.com/web/online/Top-News-Stories/Widow-of-Officer-K...
> Visits Memorial for First Time
>
> Marie Tippit, the widow of former Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit,
> who was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963, touches
> her husband's name on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
> in Wa****ngton, D.C.,
>
> TODD J. GILLMAN
> The Dallas Morning News (Texas)
>
> More than four decades have passed since Marie Tippit lost her husband
> to John F. Kennedy's assassin on that fateful November day in Dallas,
> and on Monday, she got to see J.D. Tippit's name on a national police
> memorial, alongside those of thousands of other fallen officers.
>
> The rain was falling steadily as the 79-year-old widow made her first
> visit to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. She rubbed
> her thumb gently across the marble, pursing her lips. A tear spilled
> down her cheek as her son patted her back.
>
> For Mrs. Tippit, J.D. was more than a footnote to history, or a key
> piece of evidence to the Warren Commission's investigation.
>
"He was a good police officer and he was a good husband and father,"
Right!!.... That's why he was having an affair with at least one
woman.
He had bought a ring for one of the waitresses at Austin's Barbecue,
and had told Marie that he was planning to divorce her......
> she said.
>
> On Tuesday, Mrs. Tippit will sit on the dais at a candlelight vigil
> expected to draw 20,000 to the memorial, a few blocks from the
> Capitol.
>
> "This means a lot to us," said Craig Floyd, chairman and CEO of the
> fund that built the memorial in 1991, personally playing tour guide.
>
> He showed Mrs. Tippit the marble panel with her husband's name. Just
> to the right, the name "John Kennedy" -- a New York City police
> officer killed in 1922, placed there to remind visitors of Officer
> Tippit's place in history.
>
> "He represents -- even though he was killed by the man who killed a
> president, because of that he just kind of represents a lot of the
> other officers that were killed in the line of duty, just out there
> doing their jobs every day," Mrs. Tippit said.
>
> She has long since remarried but often uses the name of her first
> husband. Life goes on, she said. But just as the world hasn't
> forgotten the Kennedy assassination, she thinks often of her first
> husband. He was 39. That day, Nov. 22, 1963, he stopped home for lunch
> -- not something he often did. She whipped up some tuna and fried
> potatoes and he rushed back to work.
>
> Officer Tippit spotted Lee Harvey Oswald wearing a zipped-up jacket.
> It was 68 degrees, and the jacket looked out of place. He stopped his
> patrol car and got out. Oswald pulled a handgun and shot at point-
> blank range. It was 1:15 p.m., just 45 minutes after the president had
> been shot.
Officer Tippit spotted Lee Harvey Oswald wearing a zipped-up jacket.
It was 68 degrees, and the jacket looked out of place. He stopped his
patrol car and got out. Oswald pulled a handgun and shot at point-
blank range. It was 1:15 p.m., just 45 minutes after the president
had
been shot.
Wow!!..... The killer had his jacket zipped up and THAT'S why Tippit
thought he was a suspictious character.... Now That's top flight
police work!!
>
> Eyewitnesses called police. Oswald was cornered at the Texas Theater.
>
> Mrs. Tippit comes from a law enforcement family. Her father was a
> police captain in Greenville at the time, and two brothers were
> officers there. The son who accompanied her to Wa****ngton this week,
> Curtis Tippit, a home contractor who lives east of Dallas, has a son
> who is considering a police career.
>
> "His personality is one of a protector, a take the bull-by-the-horns
> kind of person. It may have something to do with his grandfather,
> too," said Mr. Tippit, who was just shy of his 5th birthday when his
> father died.
>
> "As a lot of the other widows will tell you, you have to do it one day
> at a time. It's just not an easy thing," his mom said. "You have to
> take it one day at a time, because you've got kids to raise. You've
> got to keep his memory alive for them."
>
> Dallas police officers pitched in to send the Tippits to Wa****ngton.
>
> They arrived Saturday night and got a VIP tour of the White House on
> Sunday. They were on hand to see Marine One deliver the Bushes after
> their daughter's wedding in Crawford. Monday was set aside for the
> memorial visit. On Tuesday, they'll visit the Capitol.
>
> "He was doing his job," said Dallas police Sr. Cpl. Rick Janich, who
> escorted the Tippits.
>
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>
> tl
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