On May 14, 8:33=A0am, Walt <papakochenb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 13 May, 22:57, cdddraftsman <cdddrafts...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>http://www.officer.com/web/online/Top-News-Stories/Widow-of-Officer-K...
> > Visits Memorial for First Time
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> > 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.,
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> > TODD J. GILLMAN
> > The Dallas Morning News (Texas)
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > For Mrs. Tippit, J.D. was more than a footnote to history, or a key
> > piece of evidence to the Warren Commission's investigation.
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> =A0"He was a good police officer and he was a good husband and father,"
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> 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......
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> > she said.
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> > 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.
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> > "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.
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> > 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.
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> > "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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> Officer Tippit spotted Lee Harvey Oswald wearing a zipped-up jacket.
> =A0It was 68 degrees, and the jacket looked out of place. He stopped his
> =A0patrol car and got out. Oswald pulled a handgun and shot at point-
> =A0blank range. It was 1:15 p.m., just 45 minutes after the president
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> =A0been shot.
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> Wow!!..... The killer had his jacket zipped up and THAT'S why Tippit
> thought he was a suspictious character.... =A0Now That's top flight
> police work!!
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> > Eyewitnesses called police. Oswald was cornered at the Texas Theater.
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> > 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.
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> > "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.
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> > "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."
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> > Dallas police officers pitched in to send the Tippits to Wa****ngton.
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> > 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.
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> > "He was doing his job," said Dallas police Sr. Cpl. Rick Janich, who
> > escorted the Tippits.
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Let it go, Walt.
Your son-in-law was a hero, too.
So was Tippit.
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