On 14 May, 09:22, Chuck Schuyler <chu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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..=
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> > > 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,
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> > > 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
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> > > -- 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
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> > > 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
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> > =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
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> > > 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.
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> Your son-in-law was a hero, too.
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> So was Tippit.
Tippit was NOT a "hero"..... Your hero, Dale Myers, uncovered an
entirely different image of Tippit than the one you have in your head.
The kids that hung around Austin's Barbecue certainly never thought he
was a "hero"...... And many others who knew him, did not think highly
of him. The fact that he had been on the Police force for over ten
years and had never been promoted reveals a lot about Officer JD
Tippit.
The legend that the government has promoted about Tippit would have
you believe that he could spot a criminal by the way he wore a jacket.
If he'd have been that alert and gifted he'd have been Captain
Tippit.
I can understand why a gullible simpleton who would believe the Warren
Re****t is the truth would also believe that Tippit was a hero.
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