To begin with, I am not offering a specific theory or suggesting a particular conspiracy. What I AM suggesting is that, there is a limit to the number of "coincidences" related to an event before it's reasonable to be suspicious that some are more than mere coincidences.
I will reiterate what I've stated in the title. On the day that JFK was assassinated in Dallas TX, there was only 1 other murder recorded that day; that of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Testimony from a number of individuals indicates that it was well know, both before and after their murders that J.D. Tippit bore a striking resemblance to John F. Kennedy.
For reference, the photo provided by Wikipedia should suffice...
J. D. Tippit at Wikipedia
Perhaps equally interesting, there is now evidence come to light among the trove of documents released back in 2017 that an FBI informant claimed J.D. Tippit was JFK's real assassin.
The Philadelphia Inquirer - 5 new revelations from the JFK assassination files
Personally, from my research into the assassination and more specifically Lee Harvey Oswald I don't think Oswald even knew Kennedy was going to be murdered that day. His statement, "I'm a patsy" would therefore be correct if this was true.
Whether Tippit was involved in the assassination, he was killed as a pre-planned strategy to provide body parts if needed or he was killed by Oswald, it sure seems "suspicious."
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MFin_Looter_Kangs ago
Found this, looking for “H. Theodore Lee”:
Tippit killed Kennedy
This one really ticks me off. The U.K. Daily Mail reported that an FBI informant “identified Dallas police officer J.D Tippit as the actual killer of John F. Kennedy.”
According to the informant, H. Theodore Lee (sic) told him that Tippit was the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas and met with Jack Ruby and possibly Oswald at Ruby’s nightclub.
As the author of the 2013 book, With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit,” I can assure you that this report is hokum from start to finish.
Had anyone bothered to double-check the allegation, they would have found that the “H. Theodore Lee” was actually Vincent Theodore Lee – who aficionados of the assassination story will recognize as the head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) in New York, the same organization Oswald claimed to have been secretary of in New Orleans and who Oswald had written to in 1963.
In April, 1964, attorney Mark Lane, the self-appointed defense counsel for Oswald, was peddling a story that Bernard Weissman, J.D. Tippit, and Jack Ruby met in Ruby’s nightclub shortly before the assassination. The story turned out to be hooey, but not before Lane managed to get several left-wing publications, including The Guardian, to print stories about the allegation.
Former FPCC head, Lee, read the accounts and was repeating them to an FBI informant.
In an April 6, 1964, FBI memo, released in July 2017 and included again as part of the October release, the FBI noted the similarities between Lee’s claims and the allegation being slung around by Lane.
Again, a few clicks, and you’d have the answer to this false Tippit allegation.
Tyranny-News-Network ago
Yeah, I've heard accounts from people who attended conferences that Lane is a bad guy. And I'm no fan of the media or the average arm-chair investigator. So it doesn't surprise me the claim of Tippit being an assassin is hogwash. My point was to remind people of this visual similarity "coincidence."
MFin_Looter_Kangs ago
I’m by no means an expert, just read this and that over the years. I thought maybe Lane was one of the ‘good guys’. Here it sounds like he was pushing his Tippet-did-it theory to absolve Oswald.