THE MURDER OF J.D. TIPPIT

By John Armstrong

It may seem hard to imagine why anyone would plan to murder a uniformed Dallas policeman in broad daylight in front of numerous eyewitnesses, but it was simply the final act in the long drama in which LEE Oswald framed HARVEY Oswald for the murder of President Kennedy. Tippit had to be eliminated, because he knew both LEE Oswald and HARVEY Oswald. As LEE Oswald shot and killed Officer Tippit, circa 1:06 PM, HARVEY Oswald was sitting in the lower section of the Texas Theater, moving from seat to seat looking for his contact. After killing Tippit, LEE Oswald left the scene and began walking toward the Texas Theater. He likely met up with Capt. Westbrook near the alley and the Abundant Life Church behind the Texaco station, and was likely driven to the theater by Westbrook in order to avoid possible arrest while walking to the theater.

At first it may seem bizzare to think that LEE Oswald, after murdering Tippit, would be driven in a police car to the theater. However, after careful consideration it appears that driving LEE to the theater may have been the only practical solution. Minutes after Tippit was killed the police were looking for the suspect, who was last seen walking west on Jefferson Blvd. If LEE Oswald had been stopped and arrested by police anywhere between 10th and Patton and the theater, the whole carefully planned operation to blame HARVEY Oswald for the murder of President Kennedy and Officer Tippit would have been compromised. HARVEY Oswald, sitting quietly in the theater, could not be blamed for killing Tippit nor blamed for killing President Kennedy. Therefore, it was absolutely imperative that LEE Oswald arrive quickly and safely at the Texas Theater, and who could take LEE Oswald to the theater without fear of being arrested by the police? Captain Westbrook, who I believe drove from the parking lot behind the Texaco station, through the alleyway (between Jefferson Blvd. and 10th St.), and dropped off LEE Oswald in the alley behind the theater. LEE walked thru the narrow walkway from the alley to Jefferson Blvd, quietly bought a theater ticket from Julia Postal, and hurried up the stairs to the balcony.

Not a single person saw LEE Oswald, wearing a white t-shirt and dark pants, walking toward or entering the Texas Theater. En route to the theater I believe that LEE Oswald removed his jacket and then left his jacket, wallet, and .38 revolver with Westbrook. In less than an hour these items would be used by Westbrook to identify the suspect as HARVEY Oswald, the man who shot and killed Tippit. Within 30 minutes Westbrook planted and then "found" the jacket given to him by LEE Oswald in the parking lot behind the Texaco station. A few minutes later Westbrook was at 10th & Patton, showing fellow police officers the wallet given to him by LEE Oswald which contained identification for Lee Harvey Oswald and A. Hidell, which linked HARVEY Oswald to the Manlicher carcano rifle and the assassination of President Kennedy. A half hour later, at police headquarters, Westbrook switched LEE Oswald's .38 revolver (the murder weapon) with the .38 revolver taken from HARVEY Oswald at the theater that was brought to the personnel office (Westbrook's office) by officer Gerry Hill. Capt. Westbrook was instrumental in framing HARVEY Oswald as the man who murdered Officer Tippit.

Around 1:13 PM LEE Oswald, following orders and avoiding attention, purchased a theater ticket from Julia Postal and quietly walked up to the balcony in the theater, where he could observe HARVEY in the lower section. LEE Oswald was to remain in the theater until the police arrived and either shot or arrested HARVEY Oswald. If HARVEY did leave the theater, LEE was probably instructed to follow HARVEY outside. At this time, circa 1:13 PM, it is important to remember that both LEE (white t- shirt) and HARVEY (long sleeve dark brown shirt) had purchased theater tickets and were sitting quietly in the theater--and there was no reason for anyone to be alarmed and call the police !! Twenty minutes later Johnny Brewer claimed to have seen a very nervous "Lee Harvey Oswald," wearing a dark brown shirt, duck into the entrance of his shoe store as police cars drove past and then claimed to have seen Oswald sneak into the theater. But Brewer did not see either LEE nor HARVEY sneak into the theater, because both men were already in the theater. I believe it was Tommy Rowe, who also worked in the shoe store, that told Brewer he saw a man, wearing a long sleeve brown shirt, duck into the entrance of the shoe store and then sneak into the theater. What is going on ??

I believe that Brewer, assuming that Tommy Rowe was telling the truth, hurried to the theater and asked Julia Postal (cashier) if she had sold a ticket to a man who had hurried or snuck into the theater. Postal called the police while Brewer went inside the theater and told Butch Burroughs about the suspicious man. Burroughs said that he had not seen this "suspicious" man, and assumed the man went directly to the balcony. Julia Postal called the police, but she was not the only person to call the police. According to researcher Leo Sauvage (who interviewed Dallas Assistant District Attorney Jim Bowie), "there were over a half-dozen anonymous phone calls made to the Dallas Police advising that a suspicious man had gone into the Texas Theater." I'll bet one of these phone calls was made by Tommy Rowe, a very close friend of Jack Ruby's.

As Brewer was looking for the suspicious man in the theater, Capt. Westbrook was at 10th & Patton showing fellow police officers the wallet given to him by LEE Oswald that contained identification for Lee Harvey Oswald and Alex Hidell. A few minutes later, after receiving a "half dozen anonymous phone calls," the police dispatcher announced that a suspect had entered the Texas Theater and was hiding in the balcony. Soon, over a dozen Dallas cops arrived at the theater while HARVEY was still on the main floor. Police were looking for a suspect wearing a white t-shirt and dark pants (LEE Oswald), but HARVEY had been sitting in the lower section since 1:01-1:07 PM wearing a long sleeve dark brown shirt. Inside the darkened theater it was Tommy Rowe (not Johnny Brewer), who told police the man in the long sleeve brown shirt was their suspect. But how would Tommy Rowe (or Brewer) know the color and style of HARVEY Oswald's shirt when he had never seen this man enter the theater? Perhaps from his good friend, Jack Ruby.

From the balcony LEE was insulated a bit as HARVEY was arrested, but after hearing the commotion below began to leave the balcony area and walk down the stairway. As Deputy Sheriff Bill Courson was running up the stairs he passed by a young man and later said "he was reasonably satisfied in his own mind the man he saw was Lee Harvey Oswald." Seconds later LEE Oswald was stopped by police Lt. Cunningham and Detective J.B. Toney, who began to question him, perhaps because his clothing matched the most recent police description of the suspect wearing a white t-shirt and dark pants. As Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers rushed up the stairs, he saw these officers as they were questioning the young man.

Capt. Westbrook, in charge of personnel, was the highest ranking police officer at 10th & Patton and at the Texas Theater. Seconds after HARVEY Oswald was arrested Capt. Westbrook, who surely knew that LEE Oswald was upstairs in the balcony, told police officers to "cover his face--HARVEY Oswald's face--and get him out of here." As HARVEY Oswald was taken out the front of the theater, Capt. Westbrook walked toward the back of the theater to the fire door exit by the alley. A few minutes later LEE Oswald was arrested in the balcony and brought downstairs. Theater concessionaire Butch Burroughs saw a man who "looked almost like Oswald, like he was his brother or something" taken out the back of the theater in handcuffs "three or four minutes" after HARVEY Oswald was taken out the front of the theater. Bernard Haire, the owner of Bernie's Hobby House, two doors east of the theater, saw police take this man out the back of the theater and place him in a police car. Mr. Haire thought he had witnessed the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald in the alley behind the Texas Theater. But the man seen by Mr. Haire was LEE Oswald, and not HARVEY Oswald, who had been taken out the front of the theater and driven directly to police headquarters. The identity of the police officer(s) who placed LEE Oswald in the police car in the alley and drove away remain unknown. But within minutes a high ranking police officer, certainly not a patrolman, released LEE Oswald. Who was this high ranking police officer who had the authority to release LEE Oswald, instead of taking him to police headquarters? Likely Capt. Westbrook. The arrest of HARVEY Oswald, and framing him as the "patsy," for the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Officer Tippit was now complete. Following are the details.... The Pre-arranged murder of Officer J.D. Tippit

As the evidence that follows will show, the murder of Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit was pre- arranged and involved LEE Oswald and at least one high-ranking Dallas Police officer. Tippit was shot and killed at 10th & Patton by LEE Oswald, who then hurried to the Texas Theater and hid in the balcony. A wallet that contained identification for both Lee Harvey Oswald and Alek Hidell suddenly appeared in the hands of a Dallas Police Captain at the scene of the murder, and then disappeared 10 minutes later and was never seen again.

DALLAS POLICE CAPTAIN W.R. WESTBROOK

Captain William Ralph Westbrook was in charge of personnel at Dallas Police headquarters. He had his own office, worked at a desk, and dressed in plain clothes. Westbrook's work, on a day to day basis, was more like a civilian than a police officer.

Westbrook told the Warren Commission, "At the present time I am personnel officer. We conduct all background investigations of applicants, both civilian and police, and then we make--we investigate all personnel complaints--not all of them, but the major ones."

On November 22, around 12:31 PM, one of the DPD dispatchers, Mrs. Kinney, came into Westbrook's office and told him shots had been fired at President Kennedy. Westbrook sent officers from his personnel office, Sergeants Stringer and Carver, and possibly Joe Fields and H.L. McGee, to the Texas School Book Depository. But how did Westbrook know to send his officers DIRECTLY to the Texas School Book Depository building, when the earliest police dispatches reported gunshots from the grassy knoll area? Westbrook told the WC that he walked down the hall spreading the word and telling the other people that they needed some men down there (at the Book Depository) and that almost everybody left. Westbrook was now alone, and Capt. Westbrook's whereabouts for the next 40-50 minutes are critical to understanding the principal characters involved in the murder of J.D. Tippit.

Westbrook said that he "sat around" a while and then began walking, in civilian clothes, one mile to the Texas Depository Building--a 22 minute walk. Westbrook said there wasn't a police car available to drive him, yet Capt. Westbrook could easily have asked the dispatcher to call a patrol car. Westbrook said that while walking to the Book Depository he stopped along the way to listen to transistor radio reports. Westbrook told the WC, "After WE reached the building [notice that Westbrook said WE, PLURAL, yet told the WC he walked by himself to the Book Depository], I contacted my sergeant, Sgt. Stringer, and he was standing in front and so then I went into the building to help start the search. Westbrook said he went into the building to "START THE SEARCH" BUT POLICE HAD ALREADY BEEN SEARCHING THE BOOK DEPOSITORY FOR AT LEAST A HALF HOUR. Westbrook then said, "I was on the first floor and I had walked down an aisle and opened a door onto an outside loading dock. And when I came out onto this dock, one of the men hollered and said there had been an officer killed in Oak Cliff [This was around 1:16 PM]."

WESTBROOK'S WARREN COMMISSION TESTIMONY ASIDE, HIS WHEREABOUTS FROM THE TIME HE WAS LAST SEEN AT THE POLICE STATION (CIRCA 12:35 PM) TO HIS ARRIVAL AT THE BOOK DEPOSITORY (AROUND 1:16 PM) ARE UNKNOWN. HIS STORY OF WALKING ALONE TO THE BOOK DEPOSITORY, AFTER THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS SHOT, IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE, AND THERE IS NO PROOF THAT WESTBROOK WAS EVER IN THE BOOK DEPOSITORY. BUT WESTBROOK'S STORY, WHICH I BELIEVE IS A TOTAL LIE, GAVE HIM AN ALIBI TO ACCOUNT FOR 40-50 MINUTES OF HIS TIME. CAPTAIN WESTBROOK WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE THAT HE CASUALLY WALKED TO THE SCENE OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S MURDER, BUT THEN HURRIEDLY DROVE TO THE SCENE OF OFFICER TIPPIT'S MURDER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS ESSAY IS TO DETERMINE CAPT. WESTBROOK'S LIKELY WHEREABOUTS AND HIS ACTIVITIES FROM 12:35 THRU 1:16 PM ON THE AFTERNOON OF NOVEMBER 22, 1963.

RESERVE OFFICER SGT. KENNETH CROY

I believe Dallas Police reserve officer Sgt. Kenneth Croy was with Westbrook during those missing 40-50 minutes. Croy was 26 years old, separated from his wife, and living with his parents on November 22. Croy told the Warren Commission that when President Kennedy was shot he was sitting in his car at City Hall--the same location as Capt. Westbrook. Croy said that after shots were fired at President Kennedy he left the police station and began to drive his car home. In downtown Dallas Croy said that he was "hemmed in from both sides" by traffic on Main and Griffin for about 20 minutes. He then drove past the courthouse on Elm and asked police officers, whose names he did not know, if he could be of any assistance. Croy said that after the officers said "No" that he proceeded to drive home. Croy would have us believe that after shots were fired at the President, he left the police station and was told by unknown officers that his services were not needed, when many off-duty police officers were called at home and told to report for duty. Croy testified that while talking with the police officers in front of the courthouse his estranged wife "pulled up beside me" in her car. They began talking and then decided to go to lunch together at Austin's Barbecue, even though Croy and his wife were separated. But first, Croy said that he needed to change clothes at his parents' home. On the day of President Kennedy's assassination Croy would like us to believe that his priorities were to drive to his parents' house, change clothes, and have lunch with his estranged wife!!

CROY'S WARREN COMMISSION TESTIMONY ASIDE, HIS WHEREABOUTS FROM 12:30 PM UNTIL 1:10 PM ARE UNKNOWN. HIS STORY OF SITTING IN HIS CAR WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS SHOT, AND GETTING HEMMED IN WITH TRAFFIC FOR 20 MINUTES GAVE HIM AN ALIBI TO ACCOUNT FOR NEARLY 3/4 OF AN HOUR OF HIS TIME. CROY WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE THAT ON THE DAY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS KILLED, ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE DAYS OF THE CENTURY, HE DECIDED TO HAVE LUNCH WITH HIS ESTRANGED WIFE AND GO HOME.

I do not believe that Westbrook walked to the TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY nor do I believe he was in the Book Depository. I do not believe that Croy spoke with police officers in front of the court house, or had lunch with his wife, or went home to change clothes. I believe Westbrook and Croy's stories hide their real activities following the assassination of President Kennedy. I believe that both of these men boarded a city bus near the Book Depository, drove a squad car past Oswald's rooming house around 1:00 PM, were together at the Tippit shooting, were together at the Texas Theater, and were together in the basement of the Dallas Police station when Jack Ruby shot and killed HARVEY Oswald.

Lee Oswald

After President Kennedy was shot LEE Oswald, wearing a white t-shirt, left the Book Depository and got into a Nash Rambler station wagon at 12:40 PM (see sign on top of TSBD). Twenty minutes later (circa 1:00 PM) LEE Oswald was seen walking west on 10th and Denver Streets in Oak Cliff, wearing a white Eisenhower-type jacket over a white t- shirt, and carrying a .38 revolver. Harvey Oswald

HARVEY Oswald's actions and movements within 45 minutes after President Kennedy was murdered, in front of the building where Oswald was employed, demonstrate that he was somehow connected and/or had prior knowledge that "something" was going to happen in Dealey Plaza on 11/22/63. The extent of his knowledge and involvement are unknown, but his actions immediately following the shots fired at President Kennedy clearly indicate he was more than just an innocent bystander. HARVEY Oswald was clearly following detailed "orders/instructions" for Thursday, November 21 and Friday, November 22 that were given to him by someone very close to the conspirators, as the following examples show.

* HARVEY Oswald went to Ruth Paine's home on Thursday (Nov 21) instead of Friday, his normal procedure, to allegedly visit his wife and children. The purpose of this visit may have been to pick up and open a package mailed to Oswald that contained a long brown paper bag, similar in size and appearance to the paper bag allegedly used to carry the rifle into the TSBD. This bag, with Oswald's fingerprints, could then be placed on the 6th floor of the Book Depository. The bag, however, was not delivered and was held by the Irving post office for "insufficient postage."

* HARVEY Oswald in the lunchroom, either during or immediately after shots were fired at JFK, is peculiar and has never been understood nor explained. * HARVEY Oswald's abruptly leaving the Book Depository and Dealey Plaza (on one of the most infamous days in US history) is unusual.

* HARVEY Oswald's boarding the Marsalis St. bus (instead of the Beckley St Bus) was unusual.

* HARVEY Oswald's leaving his rooming house and arriving at the Texas Theater within a few minutes can only be explained if he was driven to the Texas theater.

* HARVEY Oswald, or anyone, attending a movie only a half-hour after the President of the United States has been murdered is bizarre.

* HARVEY Oswald's actions at the Texas Theater, moving from seat to seat, suggests he was looking for his contact.

* HARVEY Oswald's possession of the two halves of two one dollar bills is very unusual, and suggests these were to be used to confirm the identity of a contact within the theater.

* HARVEY Oswald's possession of a .38 caliber revolver, inside a darkened movie theater, has never been explained.

* HARVEY Oswald's claim that he was a "Patsy" indicates he had knowledge of the people who were capable of setting him up.

HARVEY Oswald normally rode the Beckley Ave. bus to and from work, which he boarded at the corner of Beckley and Zhang (Oswald's rooming house was the 2nd house from the corner). After work he would board the same bus at the bus stop next to the Book Depository. The Beckley Ave. bus passed under the triple overpass, crossed over the Trinity River, turned left on North Beckley Ave., and continued 5 miles to 3300 South Beckley. However, on 11/22/63 HARVEY Oswald did not board the Beckley Ave. bus.

A few minutes after 12:30 PM, on 11/22/63, HARVEY Oswald left the Book Depository wearing a long sleeve dark brown shirt and carrying a light colored jacket. He walked a few blocks east and boarded the Marsalis St. bus, which was in front of the Beckley bus that he rode daily to and from work. The Marsalis bus would not take HARVEY anywhere near his rooming house. The Marsalis bus turned left on Houston St. (at the Book Depository), continued south on Houston St., turned right and crossed the Trinity River (Houston St. Viaduct) and turned left on Marsalis St. toward Jefferson Blvd. It appears that HARVEY Oswald's intention was to ride the Marsalis St. bus across the Houston St. Viaduct to Marsalis St. and Zhang Blvd., where Officer Tippit was sitting in his squad car across the street at the GLOCO station (see aerial map below). I speculate that Tippit's assignment was to drive HARVEY Oswald to the Texas Theater. However, if for some reason Tippit was not at the GLOCO station, then HARVEY could continue riding the bus to Jefferson Blvd, and then transfer to another bus that would take him .7 mile west to the Texas theater.

McWaters told the WC, "As I left Field Street...it is just a short distance onto Griffin Street, and that is when someone, a man, came up and knocked on the door of the bus, and I opened the door of the bus and he got on....And that is about seven or eight blocks from the Texas Book Depository Building...he just paid his fare and sat down on the second cross seat on the right." HARVEY Oswald's destination was the Texas Theater, where he was to meet up with a "contact" in the darkened theater sometime after 1:00 PM.

A few minutes after Oswald boarded the bus, it became stalled in traffic. McWatters said, "Well, I was sitting in the bus, there was some gentleman in front of me in a car, and he came back and walked up to the bus and I opened the door and he said, 'I have heard over my radio in my car that the President has been--I believe he used the word-- 'has been shot.'" McWatters said "that is when the gentleman decided he would get off the bus." Oswald got up from his seat, asked for a bus transfer, put the transfer in his shirt pocket, and got off the bus in the middle of the block, near Poydras and Lamar St.

THE BUS TRANSFER: The bus transfer was found by police in HARVEY Oswald's shirt pocket 3 hours later, around 4:00 PM. The police then contacted the Dallas Transit Company and spoke with a supervisor, who identified Cecil McWatters as the driver who issued the transfer. Two hours later McWatters was driving his bus and stopped at a bus stop in front of City Hall. McWatters told the WC, "Well, they (Dallas Police) stopped me; it was, I would say around 6:15 or somewhere around 6:15 or 6:20 that afternoon....they told me that they had a transfer that I had issued that was cut for Lamar Street at 1 o'clock, and they wanted to know if I knew anything about it. And I, after I looked at the transfer and my punch, said yes, that is the transfer I issued because it had my punch mark on it....the superintendent has a list, in other words, it would be just like this and every man has a punch and he has his name, and everything. In other words, if anyone calls in about a transfer or anything, I mean brings one in he can look right down the list by the punch mark and tell whose punch it is, and who it is registered to."

WILLIAM WHALEY'S TAXI

After leaving McWatters bus HARVEY Oswald walked south on Lamar St. to the Greyhound Bus depot. Taxi driver William Whaley said, "He was walking south on Lamar from Commerce when I saw him....He was dressed in just ordinary work clothes. It wasn't khaki pants but they were khaki material, blue faded blue color, like a blue uniform made in khaki. Then he had on a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it and he had on some kind of jacket, I didn't notice very close but I think it was a work jacket that almost matched the pants. He, his shirt was open three buttons down here. He said, 'May I have the cab?'....And instead of opening the back door he opened the front door, which is allowable there, and got in.... And about that time an old lady, I think she was an old lady, I don't remember nothing but her sticking her head down past him in the door and said, 'Driver, will you call me a cab down here?'.... he [Oswald] said, 'I will let you have this one,' and she said, 'No, the driver can call me one.'" McWatters continued, "I asked him where he wanted to go. And he said, '500 North Beckley.'"

As Whaley drove he noticed that his passenger was wearing a shiny bracelet. Whaley told the WC, "I always notice watchbands, unusual watchbands, and identification bracelets like these, because I make them myself....it was just a common stretchband identification bracelet. A lot of them are made of chain links and not stretchbands. Stretchbands are unusual because there is very few of them....this one was a stretchband....he had it on the arm next to me, which was the left arm. TIPPIT AT THE GLOCO STATION

Around 12:40 PM Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit was observed by 5 witnesses sitting in his patrol car watching traffic at the GLOCO station. The GLOCO station was at 1502 N. Zang Blvd, just across the Trinity River from downtown Dallas via the Houston Street Viaduct (see aerial photo below). The 5 witnesses who saw Tippit sitting in his patrol car were photographer Al Volkland, his wife Lou, and three employees of the GLOCO station--Tom Mullins, Emmett Hollingshead, and J.B. "Shortly" Lewis. They all knew Tippit personally.

Officer Tippit knew LEE Oswald and either knew HARVEY Oswald or knew about him. I speculate that Tippit's assignment on November 22 was to make sure that both young men arrived at the Texas Theater--first HARVEY Oswald and then LEE Oswald. I further speculate that HARVEY Oswald was told, and understood, that a police squad car would be waiting for him when he got off the Marsalis St. bus and drive him to the Texas Theater.

Tippit was sitting in his squad car at the GLOCO station, across the street from where McWatters’ bus would turn left and stop at the bus stop on Marsalis & Zhang Blvd. The bus would then head south toward Jefferson Blvd (see aerial photo below). Around 12:51-12:53 PM it appears that three things happened:

1) McWatters’ bus, delayed by traffic in downtown Dallas, finally arrived and turned left on Marsalis St., without stopping, and headed south towards Jefferson Blvd.

2) As the bus turned left it appears that Officer Tippit left the GLOCO station on Zhang Blvd, drove past Marsalis St. and turned right on the next street (Lancaster St).

3) William Whaley, and his passenger HARVEY Oswald, drove past the GLOCO Station.

Tippit was likely following and/or monitoring McWatters’ bus as it drove south on Marsalis St. to see if, when, and where HARVEY Oswald would get off the bus. Around 12:52-12:53 Tippit left the GLOCO station, and turned right onto Lancaster St. At 12:54 PM Tippit reported his position as "Lancaster and 8th," one block east of Marsalis St. and two blocks from Jefferson Blvd. Tippit's assignment was likely to either drive or simply make sure that HARVEY Oswald arrived at the Texas Theater. But when HARVEY Oswald did not get off the bus at either Marsalis St. or Jefferson Blvd, Tippit knew there was a problem. He then drove to the Top 10 record store and made a phone call.

Around the time Tippit left the GLOCO station taxi driver Whaley drove past the GLOCO station, turned left on Beckley Ave., and drove past Oswald's rooming house. He said, "when I got pretty close to 500 block at Neches and North Beckley which is the 500 block, he (HARVEY Oswald) said, "This will do fine," and I pulled over to the curb right there (circa 12:54 PM). He gave me a dollar bill, the trip was 95 cents. He gave me a dollar bill and didn't say anything, just got out and closed the door and walked around the front of the cab over to the other side of the street. Of course, traffic was moving through there and I put it in gear and moved on, that is the last I saw of him." HARVEY Oswald got out of William Whaley's taxi nearly half-way between his rooming house and the Texas Theater.

Did Did HARVEY intend to ride the taxi to the Texas Theater to meet his contact, but then for some reason changed his mind?? HARVEY Oswald got out of Whaley's taxi and began walking north, back to his rooming house (see aerial photo below). He arrived just before 1:00 PM and, according to housekeeper Earlene Roberts, arrived "in his shirtsleeves" (see below). HARVEY Oswald spent a minute or two changing his pants and work shirt (t-shirt) before leaving.

Westbrook and Croy Shortly after shots were fired at President Kennedy I believe that Capt. Westbrook, along with Sgt. Kenneth Croy, drove Westbrook's unmarked dark blue police car from police headquarters to Dealey Plaza and arrived around 12:40 PM. Westbrook knew that HARVEY Oswald, according to plan, was supposed to be riding on Cecil McWatters’ city bus, and he also knew that Tippit was waiting for Oswald to arrive at or near the GLOCO station. I believe that after Westbrook parked his unmarked police car near the Book Depository, both he and Croy boarded McWatters’ bus looking for HARVEY Oswald. However, a few minutes earlier, before these two policemen boarded the bus, HARVEY Oswald had left the bus. Roy Milton Jones, a passenger on McWatters’ bus, said that police came on the bus and searched passengers for weapons a few minutes after a young man (HARVEY Oswald) got off the bus. The presence of two police officers boarding McWatters' bus was not reported to the Warren Commission nor investigated by the FBI or Dallas Police. After failing to locate HARVEY Oswald on the bus Capt. Westbrook now knew that Oswald would not be meeting up with Tippit at or near the GLOCO station. Where was HARVEY Oswald? Why did he get off the bus?

Capt. Westbrook needed to find Oswald and make sure that he arrived at the Texas Theater. The most likely place to look for HARVEY Oswald was his rooming house on North Beckley. But Westbrook dared not drive his unmarked police car around Oak Cliff looking for the man who would soon be accused of killing President Kennedy. Instead, Capt. Westbrook commandeered one of the many police cars parked in front of the Book Depository, likely squad car #207. Westbrook, along with Sgt. Croy, drove to Oak Cliff in an attempt to locate HARVEY Oswald. A few minutes later I believe that Westbrook and Croy were the two police officers seen by Earlene Roberts driving slowly past 1026 N. Beckley, honking their horn, while Oswald was in his room changing clothes. Why would anyone in the Dallas Police Dept. have reason to know HARVEY Oswald, and know where he was living? Because the person driving car #207 was involved in a pre-arranged plan to murder Officer Tippit and to blame HARVEY Oswald for Tippit’s murder and for the murder of President Kennedy. When Earlene Roberts heard a car honking the horn she looked out the window, saw a police car, and told the FBI the police car was #207. The occupants of car #207 were not only co-conspirators, they were a direct link to the people who conspired to murder President Kennedy.

Westbrook drove car #207 to the corner of Beckley and Zhang (see aerial photo below), and picked up HARVEY Oswald. The housekeeper, Earlene Roberts, said "I noticed he had a jacket he was putting on. I recall the jacket was a dark color and it was the type that zips up the front." Westbrook then drove Oswald to the deserted alley behind the Texas Theater, less than a mile away, and arrived about 1:03 PM (follow the green line on the aerial photo below). During this short trip Westbrook may have given HARVEY Oswald a .38 caliber revolver that was later taken from him when he was arrested. HARVEY Oswald arrived at the Texas Theater wearing a long sleeve brown shirt, and was now without the dark colored jacket that housekeeper Earlene Roberts saw him zipping up as he left the rooming house. HARVEY likely left this jacket in the police car driven by Westbrook.

In the darkened theater HARVEY Oswald was likely told that he was to meet up with his contact, and confirm the contact's identity by matching his half of a one dollar bill with the other half of the same one dollar bill shown by his contact. Oswald's contact in the Texas Theater, however, was a cleverly thought out ruse that was necessary in order to lure HARVEY Oswald into the theater. The real reason for sending Oswald to the theater was to make it appear as though he was hiding from the police in the darkened theater.

The FBI and Warren Commission both understood that Earlene Roberts' identification of police car #207, driving past 1026 N. Beckley and honking the horn at 1:00 PM, was very serious. Her testimony linked the Dallas police officers in car #207 to the man accused of killing President Kennedy only a half hour earlier. The FBI should have immediately questioned the police officer assigned to car #207, but they did not. The Warren Commission, if they were serious about solving this case, should have done everything possible to identify the two policemen inside of car #207, and asked their reason for driving past the rooming house of the man who, only a half hour earlier, allegedly killed President Kennedy. The Commission, however, did virtually nothing. They ignored the problem and simply asked the Dallas Police to determine the whereabouts of car #207 at 1:00 PM on 11/22/63.

On 11/22/63 car #207 was assigned to Officer Jimmy M. Valentine. A few minutes after shots were fired at President Kennedy (circa 12:34 PM) Officer Valentine, along with news reporter Jim Ewell, drove car #207 from police headquarters to the Book Depository. DPD car 207 arriving at the TSBD

Valentine parked the car and assisted in the search of the building until late afternoon. When a police officer parked a squad car, turned off the motor and got out of the vehicle, standard police procedure was to remove the car keys. Officer Valentine had the keys to car #207, and likely gave those keys to a fellow officer prior to 1:00 PM, likely to Sgt. Stringer, Sgt. Croy, or to Capt. Westbrook.

Officer Valentine was never questioned

Earlene Roberts' identification of police car #207, driving past 1026 N. Beckley at 1:00 PM and honking the horn, was a very serious problem. How would the Dallas police explain two of their officers driving past the rooming house of the man accused of killing President Kennedy only a half hour earlier? Who were these two police officers? Who ordered them to 1026 N. Beckley? Officer Valentine had the answer. Valentine would only have given the keys to car #207 to a fellow police officer, and Valentine knew the identity of this officer. But Jimmy Valentine was never investigated nor questioned. Why not? Valentine should have been interviewed by DPD internal affairs, the FBI, the Secret Service, and/or the Warren Commission and asked who borrowed his squad car that afternoon. Valentine should have provided a written statement or affidavit as to either the location of car #207 or the officer to whom he gave the keys to car #207 prior to 1:00 PM on 11/22/63. The opportunity to identify and connect the police officers in car #207 with HARVEY Oswald was now lost, and I believe was intentionally lost.

To resolve (cover-up) this problem a brief "letter of explanation" was prepared and given to Chief of Police Jesse Curry, who then forwarded this letter to the Warren Commission. This "letter of explanation" claimed that car #207 was parked at the Book Depository all afternoon. But this letter was not written by Officer Valentine, or his Sergeant, or his Lieutenant, or his Platoon Commander (Capt. Cecil Talbert). This letter was prepared and signed by the man in charge of the personnel department--Capt. W.R. Westbrook--the man who I believe drove car #207 past Oswald's rooming house (with Sgt. Croy) and was seen by Earlene Roberts.

NOTE: 1) Sgt. J. A. Putnam was never questioned about his receiving keys to police cars parked at or near the TSBD. 2) Why would keys to police cars given to Sgt. Putnam at the TSBD be given to the 3rd Platoon Commander at City Hall, instead of returned to officers assigned to those cars? After dropping HARVEY Oswald off in the deserted alley behind the Texas Theater, Westbrook and Croy drove police car #207 six blocks east thru the same alley and, after passing Patton St., turned left onto a very narrow driveway between two houses at 404 and 410 E. 10th (follow the purple line in the photo below).

They arrived around 1:05 PM, parked the police car between the two houses (red spot in photo below), and briefly watched LEE Oswald talking quietly with Officer Tippit thru the passenger window of the police car (yellow spot in photo below).

As Oswald and Tippit were talking, Jack Roy Tatum was driving west on 10th St. in his new, red, Ford Galaxie 500. As he drove slowly past Tippit's squad car Tatum saw a young white male with both hands in the pockets of his zippered jacket leaning over the passenger side window of the squad car. Tatum said, "It looked as if Oswald and Tippit were talking to each other.... It was almost as if Tippit knew Oswald." Of course they knew each other. LEE Oswald was the same man that Tippit sat next to at the Dobbs Restaurant two days earlier, on Wednesday at 10:00 AM, while HARVEY Oswald was working at the Book Depository. Dobbs Restaurant 11/20/63

Tatum said, "he had on a light colored zipper jacket, dark trousers and what looked like a t-shirt on." Tatum later told House Select Committee investigator Moriarty that he did NOT see (LEE) Oswald wearing a brown shirt, just a white t-shirt. While LEE Oswald was talking with Tippit, HARVEY Oswald was sitting in the Texas Theater wearing a long sleeve, dark brown shirt.

A minute or two before Westbrook and Croy arrived, Officer Tippit had parked his police car at the front entrance of this very narrow driveway that ran from 10th St. to the alley behind the houses. If a vehicle turned from the alley onto this narrow driveway then Tippit, parked on 10th St directly in front of this driveway, would see the approaching car immediately. I believe that when Officer Tippit saw the police car stop between the two houses, he got out of his car and began walking toward the police car for a pre-arranged meeting with Capt. Westbrook.

Tippit's squad car was parked directly in front of the entrance to the narrow driveway between 404 and 410 E. 10th' The 2nd police car, seen by Mrs. Holan, drove from the alley towards Tippit's car and parked between the two houses

HARVEY Oswald at the Texas Theater

At 1:05 PM, while LEE Oswald and Officer Tippit were talking together near 10th & Patton, "HARVEY Oswald" (wearing a dark brown long sleeved shirt) was inside of the Texas Theater (click here to see YouTube interview with Burroughs). According to Butch Burroughs, the "ticket-taker" who also operated the candy and popcorn booth, HARVEY Oswald arrived at the theater between 1:01-1:07 PM, and almost certainly purchased a ticket from Julia Postal. If HARVEY Oswald had not purchased a ticket then Burroughs (the"ticket-taker") would have asked HARVEY Oswald if he had purchased a ticket when he sold Oswald popcorn.

We now have good reason to doubt Johnny Brewer's claim that he saw Oswald, wearing a brown long sleeve shirt, near his shoe store around 1:30 PM. Brewer claimed that he saw Oswald rush into the Texas Theater without buying a ticket, and then convinced cashier Julia Postal to call the police. Brewer then claimed that he pointed out Oswald to the police. However…. Tommy Rowe, who worked in Hardy's Shoe Store with Brewer, told Penn Jones that it was he, not Brewer, who told police the man they were looking for was wearing a brown long-sleeve shirt. But how would Tommy Rowe, or anyone except Westbrook and Croy, know what HARVEY Oswald was wearing inside the theater?

HARVEY Oswald, sitting in the theater since 1:01-1:07 PM had discarded his light colored zip-up jacket and was wearing a brown long-sleeve shirt in the theater. It was likely that Tommy Rowe somehow knew, before the police arrived, that Oswald was wearing a long sleeve brown shirt.It appears that Rowe urged/pushed Johnny Brewer into convincing Julia Postal (circa 1:40 PM) to call the police and report that a suspicious man had snuck into the theater, which was not true. Almost immediately thereafter, according to researcher Leo Sauvage (who interviewed Dallas Assistant District Attorney Jim Bowie) a half dozen phone calls were made to the Dallas Police reporting that a suspicious man had just snuck into the Texas Theater. A DPD officer reported that "an usher" or "theater employee" (Tommy Rowe) pointed out the man in the theater who was soon arrested by police. The only employees at the Texas Theater when LHO was arrested were 1) Julia Postal 2) Butch Burroughs 3) a projectionist.

Brewer did not see "Oswald" at his shoe store

Neither Brewer nor Rowe could have seen HARVEY Oswald, wearing a long sleeve brown shirt, walk past Hardy's Shoe Store at 1:30 PM, because HARVEY Oswald had been inside the theater since 1:01-1:07 PM. And neither Brewer nor Rowe saw LEE Oswald walk past Hardy's Shoe Store because LEE Oswald had discarded his light colored jacket and was wearing a white t-shirt. The only way that Rowe could have known the man police were looking for was wearing a long sleeve brown shirt was if someone told him. And the only way that Johnny Brewer could have known this man was wearing a long sleeve brown shirt was if Tommy Rowe told him, because neither HARVEY nor LEE walked past Hardy's Shoe Store. When Brewer entered the Texas Theater he was looking for a man wearing a long sleeve brown shirt. The logical assumption is that Rowe was given information from one or more of the people who were involved in pre-planning Tippit's murder and then arresting HARVEY Oswald inside the theater. And Tommy Rowe was a very close friend of Jack Ruby. Above from a 1971 Midlothian Mirror article by Penn Jones.

Jones Harris, a long time assassination investigator from New York City, arrived in Dallas the day after the assassination. Harris interviewed Julia Postal in the office of the manager of the Texas Theater. Harris asked Postal if she sold a ticket to the man arrested in the theater by the Dallas Police. Postal immediately burst into tears. Harris walked out of the office and returned a short time later. When Harris asked Postal again if she sold Oswald a ticket she again burst into tears.

It would be very difficult for anyone to "sneak" past Julia Postal

Harris was convinced that Postal knew that she sold HARVEY Oswald a ticket to the theater. Butch Burroughs told Texas researcher Jim Marrs that Postal knows that she sold Oswald a ticket. Burroughs also told Marrs that he sold HARVEY Oswald popcorn around 1:15 PM.

After buying popcorn (circa 1:15 PM) HARVEY Oswald took a seat next to a pregnant woman (perhaps his contact; how likely is it that a pregnant woman would watch a war movie, alone, at 1:15 PM??). Within a few minutes both Oswald and the woman got up from their seats. According to Butch Burroughs, the pregnant woman disappeared was never seen again. HARVEY Oswald walked into the concession area and then back into the lower level and took a seat next to Jack Davis in the first row on the right side. Eighteen year old Davis, who became a minister in Dallas, remembered that Oswald was sitting next to him, in the near empty theater, as the opening credits to the movie began--a few minutes before 1:20 PM. After sitting next to Davis for a few minutes, Oswald got up and walked past empty seats to the small aisle on the right side of the theater and into the concession area. Davis watched HARVEY Oswald as he again re-entered the theater and took a seat next to a man on the back row, directly across the aisle from Davis. Within a few minutes HARVEY Oswald got up and once again returned to the concession area. He returned a few minutes later and took a seat across the aisle from Mr. Davis, and then moved to another seat on the fourth row. It appeared to Davis as though HARVEY Oswald was looking for someone, perhaps a contact. Davis was correct. HARVEY Oswald was looking for his contact.

After HARVEY Oswald was arrested, the police found halves of two different dollar bills in his wallet. This was a CIA method of clandestine contact (review CIA memorandum of 7/9/63 below). Wherever and whenever Oswald met his contact, this person would provide confirmation of his or her identity by showing the other half of these dollar bills. Curiously, neither of these half-dollar bills were listed on the police inventory of 11/23/63, the joint FBI/Dallas Police inventory of Oswald's possessions on 11/26/63, nor were these items photographed. At the National Archives, in Adelphi, MD, I inspected and handled each item of inventory listed on the joint FBI/Dallas Police inventory of 11/26/63. These items were not among the inventory nor were they ever mentioned by the Warren Commission. They are, however, described in detail on a Dallas Police inventory report. David Atlee Phillips wrote in his 1977 autobiography about using similar techniques. Phillips wrote that when he would meet a contact at a movie theater, whom he didn't know, he carried with him a previously arranged item and recognized a pre-arranged coded phrase.

Now, with HARVEY Oswald sitting in the theater, let's return to 10th & Patton

Officer J.D. Tippit lived with his wife and family at 238 Glencairn, 7 miles south of 10th & Patton, and patrolled area 78 in South Oak Cliff, far away from 10th & Patton. On November 22 Tippit was in the area of central Oak Cliff, patrol district 91, which was assigned to Officer William Mentzel, and Tippit was several miles from his assigned district. Curiously, several of the people who witnessed the shooting of Officer Tippit near 10th & Patton either knew him or were familiar with him, even though he was many miles from his assigned patrol area. Jimmy Burt, a witness to the Tippit shooting, knew Tippit "as an officer who frequented the neighborhood." Burt said, "This particular officer was known by the name 'Friendly' to the residents of that area." Taxi Driver William Scoggins said, "I wasn't paying too much attention to the man, you see, just used to see him every day." Witness Aquila Clemmons, who lived at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Smathers at 327 E. 10th, told researcher Mark Lane that she saw Tippit "all the time." Five witnesses at the nearby GLOCO station said they knew Tippit personally.

Tippit's familiarity with numerous local residents could be explained and understood by the Warren Commission testimony of Virginia Davis, who lived at 400 E. 10th, the house next door to where Tippit was shot and killed. Davis was asked by Commission attorney David Belin "Where was the police car parked?" Davis answered, and her answer is very important, "It was parked between the hedge that marks the apartment house where he (Tippit) lives in (410 E. 10th) and the house next door (404 E. 10th)." According to Virginia Davis, Officer Tippit was living in the house at 410 E. 10th, two houses east of her house. This house is actually a duplex apartment, with 410 E. 10th in the front and 408 E. 10th in the rear of the house. If Tippit was having an affair with a woman living in this house, this would explain not only his familiarity with local residents, but could also explain a familiar location where he could meet up with LEE Oswald and Capt. Westbrook.

Tippit, meeting up with LEE Oswald and Capt Westbrook shortly after 1:00 PM, at this precise location was no accident. When Tippit first saw LEE Oswald he had already walked past 404 E. 10th. As Tippit pulled over to the curb, and parked directly in front of the narrow driveway, LEE Oswald turned around and walked back to Tippit's squad car. Tippit could now see Westbrook's police car when it turned from the alley onto the narrow driveway. Tippit shut down his squad car and began talking quietly with LEE Oswald thru the passenger car window while waiting for Westbrook to arrive. A few minutes later Westbrook did arrive and, partially hidden from view, parked his car between the two houses. Tippit slowly got out of his squad car and began walking toward the 2nd police car for a pre-arranged meeting with Capt. Westbrook. But Tippit did not know that LEE Oswald's assignment was to shoot and kill him. When Tippit got out of his car, he had less than a minute to live.

As Tippit got out of his car LEE Oswald stood up and backed away from the patrol car. Tippit began walking around the front of his car, toward the 2nd police car, to meet Westbrook. LEE Oswald pulled his .38 revolver and fired three shots. After Tippit fell to the ground LEE Oswald walked to the back of Tippit's car. He then stopped, returned to where Tippit was laying, and and deliberately shot him in the head (around 1:06-1:07 PM). Could Westbrook, who got out of the 2nd police car at the same time, have said to LEE Oswald, "finish the job, make sure he's dead," or something similar? That could have caused LEE Oswald to stop, turn around and re-trace his steps, and then shoot Tippit in the head with a fourth shot. Jack Tatum saw the 4th shot and said, "whoever shot Tippit was determined that he shouldn't live and he was determined to finish the job."

The Warren Commission concluded that “the shooting of Tippit has been established at approximately 1:15 or 1:16 p.m.” That conclusion, however, was based on the need to give HARVEY Oswald sufficient time to walk from the North Beckley rooming house to 10th and Patton. The best evidence indicates that Tippit was actually killed at about 1:06 p.m. Several witnesses, including Frank Cimino, Albert Austin, and Francis Kinneth thought the time was slightly earlier… closer to 1:00 PM.

1:00 PM. About 1:00 PM Frank Cimino, who lived at 403 E. 10th St., heard four shots and saw a police car parked on the street and a police officer lying on the ground. He walked across the street and stood beside Helen Markham, who was the first person to approach Tippit as he lay dying on the street.

1:00 PM. At approximately 1:00 PM Francis Kinneth heard two or three shots and saw a policeman laying on the pavement near the front of his police car.

1:00 PM. Sometime after 1:00 PM Albert Austin heard two or three shots and saw a policeman lying in front of a police car on the left front side.

1:06 PM. Helen Markham had just arrived at the northwest corner of 10th & Patton, en route to catch the city bus one block south at Jefferson & Patton (at 1:15 PM). She told the Warren Commission it was "6 or 7 minutes after 1." She saw a police car drive slowly past her and pull over to the curb. She watched as a young man walked over to Tippit's car and began talking with him thru the passenger side window. A minute later the young man stood up and backed away from the car as the officer slowly got out of his car. As the policeman began walking toward the front of the patrol car the young man pulled a gun and shot the officer. Markham began screaming and shouting as she watched the young man run west across Patton Street and hurry south toward Jefferson Blvd. Markham hurried over to the policeman, lying next to his car on the pavement. She told the Warren Commission that very soon an unknown man arrived: "He had a hat on. I thought he was a policeman." This man was likely Sgt. Croy, who was wearing a white police hat. As a reserve officer Croy was not allowed to carry a gun, which may have caused Markham to wonder if he was, in fact, a policeman. Croy, according to his Warren Commission testimony, interviewed Markham for the next 5-10 minutes and then turned her over to officers when they arrived on the scene. If the man wearing a hat was not Croy, who Markham thought was a policeman, then who was it?

1:06 PM. Mrs. Margie Higgins, who lived at 417 East 10th St. was watching television and later told reporters, "Well, I was watching the news on television and for some reason the announcer turned and looked at the clock and said the time was six minutes after one (1:06 PM). At that point I heard the shots." Mrs. Higgins described the shooter and said, "He definitely was not the man they showed on television." Mrs. Higgins was perhaps the first citizen to call the police (circa 1:06 PM).

1:06-1:07 PM. Mrs. Frank Wright lived at 501 East 10th St, a half block from where Tippit was shot. She heard 3 shots, looked out her window, and saw a man lying in the street. She ran to her phone, dialed "0," and said to the operator, "Call the police, a man's been shot." When the police received Mrs. Wright's call they pushed a button that connected directly with the ambulance dispatcher, and an ambulance was dispatched immediately. Mrs. Wright then ran outside to join her husband and said, "It wasn't a minute until the ambulance got there." Mrs. Wright was probably the second citizen to call the police (circa 1:06-1:07 PM). When Frank Wright ran outside he saw "a woman come down from her porch, about three or four doors from the intersection of 10th & Patton, the same side of the street as Tippit's car.... I heard her shout, 'Oh, he's been shot!,' throwing up her hands. Then she went back up toward the house." This woman, likely Mrs. Ann McCravey, was never interviewed by the DPD, the FBI, or the WC. She was, however, interviewed by the BBC.

1:06-1:07 PM. Mrs. Doris Holan lived directly across the street from the Tippit shooting, on the 2nd floor at 409 E Tenth Street. Mrs. Holan had just returned home from her job a few minutes after 1:00 PM when she heard several gunshots. From her 2nd floor bedroom window she had possibly the best view of the murder scene, and saw Tippit lying on the street near the left front of his patrol car. Mrs. Holan observed the shooter as he was walking across Virginia Davis's lawn toward Patton. Mrs. Holan also noticed a 2nd police car parked in the narrow driveway between two houses directly across the street (car #207, occupied by Capt. Westbrook and Sgt. Croy). Tippit's car was parked on 10th St., directly in front of the narrow driveway, and prevented the 2nd police car from driving onto 10th St. Mrs. Holan watched as a man, who I believe was Capt. Westbrook, get out of the police car and walk over to Tippit's body. The man appeared to observe the bullet wound on Tippit's head, and then quickly returned to the police car that was backing up toward the alley. If this man was not Capt. Westbrook, then who was it?

In 1990 a resident of the neighborhood was interviewed by JFK researcher Prof. Bill Pulte, on the condition of anonymity. This resident said that he heard that a man walked down the driveway and approached Tippit just after the shooting.

In January, 1968, Playboy magazine interviewed Jim Garrison. In response to the Garrison interview a reader wrote to Playboy and said, “I read Playboy's Garrison interview with perhaps more interest than most readers. I was an eyewitness to the shooting of policeman Tippit in Dallas on the afternoon President Kennedy was murdered. I saw two men, neither of them resembling the pictures I later saw of Lee Harvey Oswald, shoot Tippit and run off in opposite directions. There were at least half a dozen other people who witnessed this. My wife convinced me that I should say nothing, since there were other eyewitnesses. Her advice and my cowardice undoubtedly have prolonged my life--or at least allowed me now to tell the true story....” (Playboy, January 1968, Vol. 15, No 1, pg 11)

1:06-1:07 PM. Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig was searching the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, when a rifle was discovered. Craig wrote, “… At that exact moment an unknown Dallas police officer came running up the stairs and advised Capt. Fritz that a Dallas policeman had been shot in the Oak Cliff area. I instinctively looked at my watch. The time was 1:06 PM."

NOTE: The 2nd police car, parked between two houses on a very narrow driveway, could not be seen by most witnesses to the shooting, including Clemmons, Burt, Smith, Wright, Virginia Davis, Barbara Davis). But Mrs. Holan, who lived directly across the street from where Tippit was parked, did see the 2nd police vehicle. Both she and Aquilla Clemmons saw two men at the scene of the shooting, and one of those men came from the 2nd police vehicle. The location of the 2nd police vehicle, parked between the two houses on a very narrow driveway, was no accident. The precise location of this vehicle, hidden between the two houses, and the arrival of Westbrook, Croy, Tippit, and LEE Oswald at the same time and at the same location is the best indication that Tippit's murder was pre-planned and involved both LEE Oswald the occupants of the 2nd police vehicle.

1:06-1:07 PM. Barbara Jeanette Davis heard the shots, walked to her front door, and saw the shooter walking thru her yard toward Patton Street. She then called the police and reported that a police officer had been shot. Barbara Davis was probably the third citizen to call the police (circa 1:07-1:08 PM). Her sister in law, Virginia Davis, also heard the shots and looked out the screen door of her home as the shooter (LEE Oswald) was cutting across the yard in front of her house. She watched as he threw two empty shell casings onto the ground. Virginia testified before the Warren Commission:

Mrs. Davis. We saw the boy cutting across the street. Mr. Belin. Then what did you do or see? Mrs. Davis. After he disappeared around the corner we ran out in the front yard and down to see what had happened. Mr. Belin. Then is that when you saw the policeman? Mrs. Davis. I saw the policeman lying on the street. Mr. Belin. All right. Did you see or do anything else? Did you see anyone else that you know come up to the policeman? Mrs. Davis. No sir; there was a lot of people around there. Mr. Belin. Do you remember about what time of day this was? Mrs. Davis. I wouldn't say for sure. But it was about 1:30, between 1:30 and 2. Mr. Belin. All right, after this, did police come out there? Mrs. Davis. Yes; they was already there. Mr. Belin. By the time you got out there? Mrs. Davis. Yes, sir. Mr. Belin. Then what did you do? Mrs. Davis. Well, we just stood out there and watched. You know, tried to see how it all happened. But we saw part of it. Mr. Belin. Then what did you do? Mrs. Davis. We stood out there until after the ambulance had come and picked him up.

1:07-1:08 PM. Virginia Davis told the Warren Commission that after the shooter (LEE Oswald) ran around the corner of her house a policeman "was already there." I believe this policeman was reserve officer Sgt. Croy who, along with Capt. Westbrook, was sitting in police car #207 when LEE Oswald shot and killed Tippit. Westbrook drove away in the police car, while Croy remained at the scene. If the police officer seen by Virginia Davis seconds after the shooting was not Croy, then who was it?

1:07-1:08 PM. After cutting thru the Davis's front yard the shooter (LEE Oswald) hurried onto Patton Street and walked past the rear of William Scoggins' taxi, which was parked at the corner of 10th & Patton. As the shooter walked south on Patton Street, Scoggins called his dispatcher (D.G. Graham) and reported that a police officer had been shot. The dispatcher called for an ambulance, which arrived within two minutes according to Scoggins, and then called the police. The taxi company dispatcher was probably the 4th citizen to call to the police (circa 1:07-1:08 PM).

1:07-1:08 PM. The shooter hurried south on Patton Street, where he was first seen by Ted Callaway and then by L.J. Lewis, who was at Johnny Reynolds used car lot at the corner of Jefferson Blvd. and Patton (510 E. Jefferson Blvd). Lewis heard 3 or 4 shots, and soon saw a man running south on Patton while attempting to load a pistol that he was holding in his right hand. Lewis saw the man as he turned the corner and began walking west on Jefferson Blvd. Lewis went to the car lot's office and was probably the 5th citizen to call the police (circa 1:07-1:08 PM).

1:08-1:09 PM. Domingo Benavides was sitting in his truck on the opposite side of the street facing Tippit's car, and watched LEE Oswald as he left the scene. He remembered, "the back of his [LEE Oswald's] head seemed like his hairline sort of went square instead of tapering off. His hair didn't taper off, it kind of went down and squared off." HARVEY Oswald's hairline, as we know from numerous photographs taken at the police station, extended well down his neck and past his collar line--it was not "squared off" as described by Benavides. A few minutes after the shooter disappeared from sight, Benavides got out of his truck and walked about 15 feet to Tippit's squad car. He told the Warren Commission that he used the police radio, notified the police dispatcher that a police officer had been shot, and gave the address as 410 East 10th Street. However, Benavides's voice is not heard on the police dictabelt nor is his conversation with the police dispatcher written on the DPD police transcript. It is very possible that Benavides saw police Capt. Westbrook, the 2nd police car, and Sgt. Croy in uniform when Tippit was shot, but dared not report that two Dallas police officers were involved in the Tippit shooting.

1:09-1:10 PM. T.F. Bowley was driving west on 10th Street and arrived a few minutes after the shooting. He looked at his watch--the time was 1:10 PM. Domingo Benavides told the Warren Commission that as he was using the police radio to report the shooting of a police officer, a man was standing beside him. This man was T. F. Bowley, who also used the police radio to report the shooting. An original DPD police transcript, found in the National Archives, lists the time of Bowley's call to the police as 1:10 PM. Bowley's voice can be heard on the police dictabelt and his report to the police dispatcher is written on the DPD police transcript. 1:09-1:10 PM. Ted Callaway worked at a used car lot on Jefferson Blvd., across the alley from where Virginia and Barbara Davis lived. He heard the shooting, and soon saw the shooter hurrying south on Patton at a distance of about 60 ft. Callaway described him as "white male, 27, 5'11", 165 lbs, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light gray Eisenhower type jacket, dark trousers, and a white shirt." When interviewed and filmed many years later, Callaway again said, "he had on a white Eisenhower type jacket and a white t-shirt"--once again, the shooter was not wearing a brown shirt, just a white t-shirt. After the shooter walked around the corner at Patton and Jefferson Blvd. and disappeared, Callaway hurried one block north to 10th & Patton. The ambulance arrived and Tippit's body, with help from Callaway and Bowley, was loaded in the ambulance and driven to the nearby Methodist hospital. Ambulance driver Clayton Butler told the HSCA, "I was on the scene one minute or less. From the time we received the call in our dispatch office until Officer Tippit was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital was approximately four minutes." (circa 1:13-1:14).

1:11 PM. Dallas patrolmen R. A. Davenport and W. R. Bardin were in their patrol car when they heard over the police radio of a shooting on 10th St. in Oak Cliff (circa 1:08 PM--the correct, unaltered time as broadcast by the police dispatcher). While en route to the scene of the shooting they saw and followed an ambulance to the Methodist Hospital at 1441 N. Beckley (1.4 miles from 10th & Patton). Upon arrival (circa 1:13-1:14 PM) both officers helped get Officer Tippit into the emergency room and observed the doctors and nurses as they tried to bring Tippit back to life. 1:15 PM. Tippit was pronounced dead on arrival at the Methodist Hospital by Dr. Richard Liguori at 1:15 PM (see below). Reserve Officer Sgt. Kenneth Hudson Croy at 10th & Patton

Sgt. Kenneth Croy was an unpaid, voluntary reserve officer with the Dallas Police. Croy was not allowed to carry a gun, and could only carry a nightstick. Croy told the Warren Commission that he was the only police officer at 10th & Patton when Tippit was loaded into the ambulance (circa 1:09-1:10 PM). Croy's presence at the Tippit murder scene, only minutes after Tippit was shot, is very suspicious. It order to determine if Croy could have driven to 10th & Patton by the time the ambulance arrived, the time of his self-proclaimed "arrival," we must review and piece together available evidence.

Croy told the Warren Commission that he was at the intersection of Colorado Blvd. and Zang, driving his personal car and listening to his police radio, when he heard the dispatcher broadcast the shooting of Tippit. However, as noted in the typewritten transcript, the dispatcher gave 4 different addresses on Jefferson Blvd. and 10th Street. How did Croy know to drive directly to 10th & Patton? Croy said that he drove to the scene of the shooting (10th & Patton), which is a five minute drive, and watched as Tippit's body was loaded into the ambulance. But what could Croy have heard over his police radio while at Colorado and Zang, a 4-5 minute drive from 10th & Patton? There are 3 possibilities:

1) If Croy heard the first police dispatch, circa 1:08-1:09 PM (based upon calls from citizens), he could have arrived at 10th & Patton 5 minutes later (circa 1:13-1:14 PM), but this was several minutes after the ambulance left the scene and 1-2 minutes before Tippit was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital. There is no evidence that Croy drove his personal car to 10th & Patton, as he told the Warren Commission. Not a single witness at 10th & Patton saw police Sgt. Croy arrive by car. Where did he park?

2) If Croy listened to the radio calls from Benavides or Bowley to the police dispatcher from Tippits patrol car (circa 1:08-1:09 PM), he could have arrived at 10th & Patton 5 minutes later (circa 1:13-1:14 PM), but this was several minutes after the ambulance left the scene and 1-2 minutes before Tippit was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital. There is no evidence that Croy drove his personal car to 10th & Patton, as he told the Warren Commission. Not a single witness at 10th & Patton saw police Sgt. Croy arrive by car. Where did he park?

#3) If we rely on the time as noted in the altered police transcripts, the time of the dispatch is 1:18 PM. The earliest Croy could have arrived at 10th & Patton would have been at 1:23 PM, long after the ambulance left the scene, and eight minutes after Tippit was declared dead at Methodist Hospital.

If Sgt. Croy had arrived at 10th & Patton in his personal car, in uniform, he would have been approached by many witnesses as soon as he got out of his car. But this did not happen, because Croy did not drive to 10th & Patton. Reserve officer Croy most likely arrived at 10th & Patton in police car #207 with personnel officer Capt. Westbrook, and they watched momentarily as LEE Oswald shot and killed Tippit at 1:06 PM. Westbrook got out of the car, briefly looked at Tippit lying dead or dying in the street, and then quickly returned to the car. Westbrook left the scene in police car #207 while Croy quietly remained at the scene. During the next few minutes Sgt. Croy kept a low profile, and a few minutes later watched as Tippit's body was loaded into the ambulance (circa 1:09-1:10 PM). After helping load Tippit's body into the ambulance, T.F. Bowley said that he talked with a police sergeant at the scene and then left (see page 3 of the affidavit below)..

The name of the police sergeant is unknown, but it is likely that Bowley talked with Sgt. Croy, who was the first and only police sergeant on the scene at that time.

Below is a list of police officers who were either dispatched or arrived at the scene of the Tippit murder. As can be seen, Croy was the only police sergeant IN UNIFORM when Tippit was loaded into the ambulance, and the only police sergeant available to talk to Temple Ford Bowley. Sgt. Gerald Hill (wearing plain clothes), while en route to 10th & Patton, saw the ambulance carrying Tippit's body at Colorado Blvd & Beckley as it was racing toward the Methodist Hospital. Hill turned left on Beckley and arrived at 10th & Patton a moment before patrolmen Joe Poe and Leonard Jez arrived (circa 1:18 PM). Officers Roy Walker and H.W. Summers arrived a few minutes later, followed by detectives, police photographers, and officers from the Service Division (Identification Bureau, Fingerprint Section, Crime Scene Search Section). A third police sergeant, Calvin "Bud" Owens (in uniform), arrived at 10th & Patton about 20-25 minutes later, but quickly left in response to a report that the suspect was in the library.

Following is a list of police officers who were either dispatched or arrived at 10th & Patton. As can be seen from the list below the only sergeant in uniform who could have spoken with T.F. Bowley after the ambulance left was Croy.

Anglin, Billy N. (patrolman) Ashcraft, Holly M. (Love Field) Baggett, E.R. (patrolman-temporarily assigned to special service bureau) Croy, Kenneth Hudson (sergeant, in uniform; reserve officer) Gregory, Thomas R. (patrolman) Hawkins, Ray (patrolman) Hill, Gerald Lynn. (sergeant--plain clothes; temporarily assigned to Capt. Westbrook's Personnel Bureau; arrived at 10th & Patton a moment before Poe and Jez arrived, circa 1:18-1:19; then went to Jefferson Blvd & Patton) Hill, Leonard L. (patrolman) Horn, Henry H. (patrolman) Hutson, T.A. (patrolman, 3 wheel motorcycle) Jez, Leonard E. (patrolman; with Poe, first squad at 10th & Patton) McDonald, M.N. (patrolman) Mentzel, William D. (patrolman) Owens, Calvin B. (sergeant--in uniform arrived first at Jefferson Blvd & Patton, to help search buildings; not at 10th & Patton until circa 1:36 PM) Poe, Joe M. (patrolman; with Jez, first squad at 10th & Patton) Pollard, Jerry G. (patrolman) Sebastian, E.G. (patrolman) Smith, Walter E. (patrolman) Summers, H.W. (patrolman) Talbert, Capt. C.E. (plain clothes) Thornhill, B.T. (accident prevention bureau) Walker, C.T. (patrolman, accident prevention bureau) Walker, Roy W. (patrolman, arrived at 10th & Patton circa 1:18 PM) Westbrook, Capt. William R. (personnel bureau, plain clothes; arrived circa 1:43 PM) Williams, Frank S. (patrolman) Williams, J.W. (traffic division) Croy told the Warren Commission that he "got me a witness" (Helen Markham) and questioned her for "a good 5 or 10 minutes" (circa 1:09-1:19 PM). As Croy was talking with Markham the first squad arrived and began to talk with Markham. Croy can be seen standing next to Helen Markham in this photo. Croy told the Warren Commission that he was at 10th & Patton for "a good 30 minutes." He said, "as I got ready to leave, there was another report that he ran into the Texas Theater, a man fitting Oswald's description had ran into the Texas Theater."

The FBI's written report on 11/23/63

On November 23, 1963, only one day after President Kennedy was assassinated, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent the FBI's report on the assassination to the Chief of the Secret Service, James J. Rowley, along with a letter that said, "The results of our inquiry into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and background information relative to Lee Harvey Oswald." Within 24 hours the Johnson Administration and the FBI decided that Oswald was guilty and were already distributing their written report!! Now the FBI needed to collect any and all information related to Oswald and make sure that information supported their written report.

With documentation provided by the FBI, the Warren Commission concluded, “the shooting of Tippit has been established at approximately 1:15 or 1:16 p.m.” Their conclusion was based upon typewritten transcripts of DPD police logs provided by the Dallas Police. These police logs "allegedly" noted the exact time of day that information related to the Tippit shooting by citizens L.J. Lewis, T.F. Bowley, Mrs. Frank Wright, Margie Higgins, Ted Callaway, and Domingo Benavides was broadcast by the dispatcher. During the past fifty years numerous researchers, relying on the times noted on the DPD typewritten transcripts, have argued continuously as to whether or not Oswald could have walked from his rooming house (1026 N. Beckley) to 10th & Patton in 14 or 15 minutes. W.C. supporters claim there was sufficient time for Oswald to have walked to 10th & Patton and shoot Tippit, while W.C. critics claim there was not sufficient time. Unfortunately, researchers' efforts in his regard have been a total waste of time.

According to numerous witnesses, Tippit was shot and killed about 1:06 p.m. even though Frank Cimino, Albert Austin, and Francis Kinneth thought the time was slightly earlier… closer to 1:00 PM. The timing of the shooting was critical, and could be accurately determined from the recordings on the original DPD dictabelts and disks. Had researchers focused their efforts and attention on the DPD dictabelts and disks, it would have soon become obvious that these items had been been altered. The dictabelts and disks were given to the FBI within days of 11/22/63, the times related to the shooting were then altered, and the altered dictabelts and disks were then given to the Warren Commission. Since 1964 researchers have been mistakenly relying upon the time of day as noted on these altered DPD dictabelts and disks.

The FBI alters the Dallas Police dictabelts

DPD dispatcher Murray Jackson, who worked 20 years at the Dallas Police department, told the HSCA that the dictabelts/tapes were sequestered almost immediately after his shift ended on November 22, 1963. Police Chief Lumpkin had the dictabelts and discs placed in sealed envelopes and taken to his office. A few days later the Dallas Police gave the FBI their original dictabelts and discs that contained the original recordings of the dispatchers' radio transmissions from channel 1 and channel 2 on November 22, 1963. Channel one used dictabelts while channel two used eight inch diameter autograph disc records, which resembled a normal stereo record. After FBI officials listened to the dictabelt and disc recordings concerning citizens calling and reporting the shooting of a police officer, after they reviewed numerous witness statements, and after they examined Tippit's medical records, they realized there was a serious problem. Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper at 1026 N. Beckley, said that (HARVEY) Oswald left his rooming house shortly after 1:00 PM. The police dictabelts show that a little less than six minutes later, and .8 of a mile south at 10th & Patton, Tippit was shot and killed at 1:06 PM. The FBI realized that (HARVEY) Oswald could not possibly have walked .8 of a mile from his rooming house to 10th & Patton in under 6 minutes and shot Tippit at 1:06 PM.

When the shooting of a police officer was first broadcast by the police dispatcher there was much confusion about the exact address of the Tippit shooting, because each caller apparently gave their home address or business address or an address close to Tippit's patrol car. The callers were Barbara Jeanette Davis, L.J. Lewis (510 E. Jefferson Blvd.), Mrs. Margie Higgins (417 E. 10th), Mrs. Frank Wright (501 E. 10th), William Scoggins' dispatcher, and radio transmissions by Domingo Benavides (410 E. 10th), T.F. Bowley (404 E. 10th), and Ted Callaway (501 E. Jefferson Blvd.). The dictabelts and discs recorded the police dispatcher relaying this information to police officers. The information provided by the dispatcher and recorded by the dictabelt was correct, but the time of this dispatch (circa 1:06-1:08 PM) had to be changed in order to allow enough time for Oswald to have walked from his rooming house (1:00-1:01 PM) to 10th & Patton and shoot Tippit. The time that the police dispatcher notified officers of the Tippit shooting was changed from 1:06-1:08 PM to 1:18 PM (see 1:18 PM above in the typewritten transcripts). The typewritten transcript for channel 1 (below) now shows no calls to the police related to the Tippit shooting from 1:04 to 1:18 PM. The typewritten transcript for channel 2 (below) describes calls to and from the police dispatcher between 1:01 to 1:12 PM as "Most conversations were routine" (click here to view entire transcript). On December 3, 1963 the FBI returned the altered "belts and discs" for channel 1 and channel 2 to Capt. Bowles of the Dallas Police, who at that time had no reason to believe it was not their original dictabelt(s). The Dallas Police would not be able to detect any alteration or tampering with the dictabelt(s). They told Dallas Police Capt. Bowles that they were experiencing difficulty in preparing typewritten transcripts from the recordings (see below).

Thanks to FBI alterations, there was now enough time on both the dictabelts and the typewritten transcripts for (HARVEY) Oswald to have walked from his rooming house (circa 1:00 PM) to 10th & Patton in time to shoot Officer Tippit at 1:16 PM. These documents are definitive proof of manipulation and alteration of evidence by the FBI.After the altered dictabelts were returned to the Dallas Police numerous typewritten transcripts were made by the Dallas Polioe, the FBI, and given to the Warren Commission. Each and every one of these transcripts were taken from the FBI altered dictabelts and, therefore, should be read and viewed with suspicion.

NOTE: The procedure by which dictabelts could be altered was simple. The dictabelt recordings could be played and recorded onto a tape recorder. The resulting tapes could then be easily altered with deletions and voice additions (time of day), and the altered tapes could then be played and recorded onto a new dictabelt.

A few examples of alteration that prove the dictabelts were altered

Dallas Police Officers R.A. Davenport and W.R. Bardin heard the broadcast of the shooting of a police officer on their police radio (circa 1:08 PM) and were en route to the scene of the shooting when they saw, and followed, the ambulance carrying Tippit speeding to the Methodist Hospital (circa 1:11-1:12 PM). There is no doubt these officers arrived at the Methodist Hospital with the ambulance, watched as doctors tried to bring him back to life, and were nearby when Tippit was pronounced dead on arrival at 1:15 PM.

Temple Ford Bowley arrived at 10th & Patton at 1:10 PM. He took the police microphone from Benavides and told the police dispatcher of the shooting of a police officer (below, highlighted in blue). The time on this altered transcript is 1:19 PM (see red arrows. Now, look at the bottom of this transcript "Suspect running west on Jefferson...." It is simply not possible for Bowley to be reporting the shooting of a police officer, before the dispatcher has notified officers of a shooting, while at exactly the same time (1:19 PM) the dispatcher is reporting that a witness saw the suspect running west on Jefferson. The timing of both broadcasts by the dispatcher have been altered. The FBI's alteration of the dictabelts relating to the shooting of Officer Tippit were the first of several FBI alterations to these dictabelts. A dictabelt could record only 15 minutes of continual conversation. A conversation that continued past 15 minutes was automatically routed to a 2nd dictabelt on the same machine, while the first dictabelt was removed and replaced with a new dictabelt. A short conversation, perhaps one minute, would be recorded and the dictabelt machine would continue running for another 4 seconds before automatically shutting off if no further conversation. The machine would automatically start recording with the next conversation. Normally, a dictabelt machine could record dozens of short calls, which could cover an hour or more of calls. But on November 22, 1963, there were continual calls to and from the police dispatcher without interruption. In other words, on November 22, 1963, from 12:00 noon thru 1:00 PM, four dictabelts would be needed in order to record communications to and from the DPD police dispatcher (1 hour = 4 fifteen minute dictabelts).

In order to better understand the FBI's involvement and manipulation with the original DPD dictabelts, simply look at the following information for dictabelts #2 thru #9 returned by the FBI to the Dallas police. Each dictabelt can record only 15 minutes, yet the times covered for each of these dictabelts are from 20-45 minutes--every one of these dictabelts are missing from 10 to 25 minutes of conversation. On dictabelt 6, for example, when the DPD dispatcher had continuous contact with police officers from 12:40 to 1:10 PM (JFK shot at 12:30 PM; Tippit shot at 1:06 PM), this dictabelt has only 15 minutes of recording--and 15 minutes of police related conversation were eliminated!

The Warren Commission received four typewritten transcripts of DPD police logs which, if transcribed from the same DPD dictabelts, should all be identical. However, all are different. Sawyer exhibit "A" (DPD channel 2) was prepared on December 3, 1963. Sawyer exhibit "B" (DPD channel 1) was prepared on December 5, 1963. Commission Exhibit 705 (CE 705) was prepared by the DPD and given to the WC in April, 1964. Commission Exhibit 1974 (CE 1974) was prepared by the FBI, by request of the Warren Commission, in August, 1964. Sawyer exhibits "A" and "B" both end at 1:58 PM on November 22. CE 705 is almost continuous from 10:00 AM on November 22 to 6:00 PM on November 24. CE 1974 was prepared by the FBI in August, 1964, and ends at 3:00 PM on November 22 and ends at 2:00 PM on November 24. Readers are invited to compare and note the many variations, discrepancies, and omissions found when comparing any one of these documents to another (a few examples are shown below). HOWEVER, READERS MUST REMEMBER THAT ALL OF THESE TYPEWRITTEN TRANSCRIPTS, THE FIRST OF WHICH WAS CREATED ON DECEMBER 3, WERE CREATED ONLY AFTER THE FBI RECEIVED THE ORIINAL DPD DICTABELTS AND DISKS A FEW DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION, AND THEN RETURNED ALTERED COPIES TO THE DPD.

DPD transcript CE 705 shows Tippit's last attempted transmission at 1:08 PM. The FBI transcript, (CE 1974) prepared in August, 1964, does not list Tippit's attempted transmission at 1:08 PM, and instead lists transmissions from DPD officers using call numbers #55 and #488, but the officers using these numbers have never been identified. The original DPD transcript (CE 705) shows the report of Tippit's murder by Bowley at 1:10 PM. The FBI transcript, (CE 1974) prepared in August, 1964, lists the reporting time of Tippit's murder by Bowley at 1:19 PM--nine minutes later. Neither Sawyer exhibit "A" or "B" include instructions for Tippit to move into Central Oak Cliff. These instructions are also omitted on CE 705. CE 1974, created by the FBI in August, 1964, reports the dispatcher sending Nelson and Tippit to "Central Oak Cliff area," Tippit replies, "I'm at Kiesk and Bonnieview." On CE 1974 a patrolman said to the dispatcher "Would you check through Austin and get registration please on HS1877, down here at this shooting which took place in regards to the President." This information is omitted on CE 705. At 1:44 PM the FBI created transcrpt (CE1974) reads "Tape splice" (below). A "TAPE SPLICE" OR SPLICE OF ANY KIND CANNOT BE MADE TO A DICTABELT OR VINYL DISK. THIS NOTATION IS PROOF THAT DPD DISPATCH RECORDINGS ON THE ORIGINAL DPD DICTABELTS AND/OR VINYL DISKS WERE COPIED ONTO A TAPE RECORDER. THE TAPES OF DISPATCH RECORDINGS WERE THEN ALTERED BY REMOVING/CUTTING SENSITIVE PORTIONS OF THE TAPES AND THEN SPLICING PORTIONS TOGETHER ("TAPE SPLICE"). THE ALTERED TAPES WERE THEN PLAYED AND RECORDED ONTO A DICTABELT MACHINE, AND THE RESULTING DICTABELTS AND DISKS WERE RETURNED TO THE DPS.

These are only a few of the discrepancies that appear on Sawyer "A," Sawyer "B," CE 705 and CE 1974. The Warren Commission, well aware there was a nine minute difference in the time of the Tippit shooting, ignored the DPD transcript (CE 705) and instead relied on the FBI's transcript (CE 1974) that was created in August, 1964, only a month before the printing of the Warren Commission's Report. The FBI's transcript allowed enough time for Oswald to leave his rooming house at 1:01 PM and arrive at 10th & Patton at 1:16 PM and shoot Tippit.

Nineteen years later, in March, 1982, after the dictabelts had been examined by experts and found to have evidence of alteration, Dallas researcher Gary Mack interviewed Capt. Bowles of the Dallas Police. Bowles told Gary Mack that he could not give any assurance that the belts which were returned by the FBI were the ones which left the possession of the DPD. (Click here to read the complete article relating to the scientific analysis of the dictabelts.)

Warren Reynolds follows LEE Oswald

Warren Reynolds, who worked at a car lot on Jefferson Blvd, across the street from Ted Callaway's car lot, heard shots and soon saw the shooter near the corner of Patton and Jefferson Blvd. Reynolds saw the shooter tuck a gun underneath his belt and begin to walk west on the north side of Jefferson Blvd (red line in aerial photo below). Reynolds began to follow the shooter, by walking parallel to him on the south side of Jefferson Blvd (orange line in aerial photo below). After walking one block west, past the Ballew Texaco Station, the shooter turned right and hurried into the car lot behind the station and then into the alley.

IMPORTANT: Jimmy Burt, who hurried to 10th & Patton after the shooting, saw the shooter as he walked south on Patton. Burt began to follow the shooter, and soon saw the man turn right and walk west on Jefferson Blvd. When Burt reached the alley he looked westward and saw the shooter in the alley.

Burt stood there and momentarily watched as the shooter walked westward in the alley toward Crawford St. Burt's observation is very important, as it indicates that the shooter was still wearing the jacket AFTER he passed thru the parking lot and into the alley. The shooter had NOT discarded his jacket in the parking lot behind the Texaco station. He was still wearing his jacket when Burt saw him walking in the alley toward Crawford St. I believe LEE Oswald was wearing the jacket when Burt saw him in the alley and was still wearing the jacket when he got into car #207 driven by Capt. Westbrook. The next time LEE Oswald appeared was in the balcony of the Texas Theater.

Warren Reynolds crossed Jefferson Blvd and began walking thru the car lot but lost sight of the shooter (click here to see Warren Reynolds interview). I believe, and please understand there is no definitive proof, that after Tippit was shot Westbrook backed up car #207 into the alley (green line in aerial photo below) and soon met up with LEE Oswald (at the end of the red line in aerial photo below) somewhere near the alley and the Abundant Life Church behind the Texaco station.

LEE Oswald may have realized that someone was following him, because Warren Reynolds was following him (follow the orange line). When LEE Oswald met up with Capt. Westbrook he may have told Westbrook that someone was following him. To Westbrook this individual posed a very serious threat. It didn't matter whether Reynolds actually saw the shooter (LEE Oswald) make contact with a police car. It only matters if Capt Westbrook or LEE Oswald thought he did, because Reynolds could then connect the man who shot Tippit with the Dallas Police. For Capt. Westbrook this presented no problem, because Westbrook could easily learn the identity of this unknown man by reading police reports of interviews with witnesses. Once Westbrook had identified a troublesome witness, he could fix the problem. Could this be the reason Warren Reynolds was shot in the head two months later?

On January 22, 1964, FBI agents Kesler and Mitchem showed a photograph of Lee HARVEY Oswald to Reynolds, at which time Reynolds advised the two agents that he would hesitate to definitely identify the man shown in the photograph as the shooter.

At 9:00 PM, on January 23, 1964, Warren Reynolds was shot in the head with a .22 caliber rifle, and the prime suspect was Darrell Wayne Garner. After Garner was arrested Betty (Mooney) MacDonald, a former stripper at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club, provided an alibi for Garner and he was released. On February 13, 1964 MacDonald was arrested for disturbing the peace. The next morning she was found dead, hanging from the ceiling in the jail cell with her toreador trousers. Reynolds, after being shot in the head, changed his mind and identified HARVEY Oswald as the shooter.

NOTE: Take a look at the aerial photo (above) that shows the position of the 2nd police car (Westbrook/Croy) and the location of the known witnesses to the Tippit shooting. The only known witness to the shooting on 11/22/63, who was in a position to see the 2nd police car parked between the 2 houses, was Domingo Benavides. Bendavides' brother, who looked very much like Domingo, was shot and killed in mid-February, 1964. The only other person who could have seen the 2nd police car was Warren Reynolds, (when Westbrook met up with Oswald near the Abundant Life Church). On January 23, 1964 Reynolds was shot in the head with a .22 rifle. These two men had the potential to link a Dallas Police squad car with both the murder of Tippit and with Oswald, but not if they were eliminated.

On the day President Kennedy and Officer Tippit were killed many witnesses saw Oswald wearing a white shirt, while other witnesses saw Oswald wearing a brown shirt. This is very easy to explain. Just remember that HARVEY Oswald, wearing a long sleeve brown shirt, left Dealey Plaza on a city bus and taxi, changed his pants and t-shirt in his rooming house, and was arrested in the Texas Theater wearing a long sleeve brown shirt. LEE Oswald was wearing a white t-shirt when he left Dealey Plaza in a Rambler station wagon, wearing a white t-shirt when he shot Tippit, wearing a white t-shirt when was arrested in the balcony of the Texas Theater, was wearing a white t- shirt when taken by police out the back of the theater, and was wearing a white t-shirt when seen by Mr. White sitting in a red Ford Falcon in the El Chico parking lot.

HARVEY Oswald brown shirt; LEE Oswald white shirt.

Westbrook meets up with LEE Oswald.

After Tippit was shot and killed Capt Westbrook left Sgt. Croy at the scene. Westbrook then backed car #207 into the alley and then likely drove to, or near, the Abundant Life Church behind the Texaco Station (follow the green line in photo above) where he met up with LEE Oswald. I believe that LEE Oswald gave Westbrook his wallet, his light colored jacket, and the .38 revolver used to kill Tippit. LEE Oswald soon arrived at the Texas Theater, perhaps driven there by Westbrook. LEE Oswald bought a ticket from Julia Postal, entered the lobby, and hurried up the stairs to the balcony. The movie was playing and Butch Burroughs, the ticket-taker and concessionaire, was likely working at the concession stand (behind the doors in the photo below). He probably did not see LEE Oswald enter the lobby and hurry up the stairs.

Westbrook drove police car #207 back to the Texas School Book Depository, and arrived around 1:15 PM. It was very important for Capt. Westbrook to be seen in and around the Book Depository before the shooting of Tippit was broadcast by the police dispatcher.

We must remember that Westbrook first told the Warren Commission that he walked from police headquarters to the Book Depository. Later, when questioned about the Tippit murder, Westbrook told the Warren Commission that he heard about the shooting of a police officer on "his radio." Westbrook said "HIS RADIO," most likely the radio in Westbrook's dark blue, unmarked police car that I believe he drove from police headquarters to the Book Depository. Westbrook then told the Warren Commission that he "ran to my radio (my radio!!) because I am the personnel officer and that then became, of course, my greatest interest right at that time, and so, Sergeant Stringer and I and some patrolman---I don't recall his name---then drove to the immediate vicinity of where Officer Tippit had been shot and killed." No, Westbrook did not drive to where Tippit was shot and killed. Westbrook drove his unmarked police car directly to the parking lot behind the Texaco station. Westbrook was lying to the Warren Commission--one lie after another.

Now Westbrook was telling the Commission that he ran to "MY RADIO," no doubt the radio in his unmarked police car. Westbrook said that he got into a police car and "an officer drove him to the immediate vicinity of where Tippit had been shot and killed." Another lie. Westbrook said, "I don't know where this officer went after he let us out at the scene. Another lie. Westbrook was lying to the Warren Commission, 100% lying, in an attempt to hide his actions and whereabouts after he left the Book Depository en route to Oak Cliff. Westbrook told the Commission that "Some patrolman drove him" to where Tippit had been shot and killed. Another lie. Capt. Westbrook drove his own dark blue, unmarked police car to Oak Cliff with Sgt. Stringer sitting next to him in the front seat and with Dallas Morning News reporter Jim Ewell sitting in the back seat (read Jim Ewell's account here). And an unknown police officer did NOT let Westbrook out at the scene of Tippit's murder, because Westbrook drove his unmarked police car from the Book Depository directly to the Texaco Station at 401 E. Jefferson and arrived shortly before 1:25 PM.

It is important to remember that Westbrook told the Warren Commission, "I am personnel officer. We conduct all background investigations of applicants, both civilian and police, and then we make--we investigate all personnel complaints--not all of them, but the major ones." Why does a personnel officer, wearing civilian clothes and working at a desk job in an office at the police station, involve himself in a homicide investigation? Westbrook told the Warren Commission, "I am the personnel officer and that then became, of course, my greatest interest right at that time." But Westbrook's actions and whereabouts that afternoon show that he had very little interest in officer Tippit. Westbrook did not drive directly to the scene of the Tippit murder at 10th & Patton. Westbrook did not drive to the hospital where Tippit was taken by ambulance. Westbrook did not visit or telephone Tippit's wife later in the day. Westbrook's priority, and destination, was the parking lot behind the Ballew Texaco Station on East Jefferson--where the light colored jacket, given to him by LEE Oswald fifteen minutes earlier, would be "planted" and/or "found" underneath one of the cars in the parking lot. Was there any reason, other than "finding the shooter's jacket," for Westbrook to drive from the Book Depository directly to the parking lot behind the Texaco Station?

After Westbrook arrived at the Texaco station news reporter Jim Ewell got out of the car and walked to McCandles Minute Market. He placed a telephone call to the "city desk" at the Dallas Morning News and told his employer that he was in Oak Cliff. As Ewell left the Minute Mart he saw Assistant D.A. William Alexander "with an automatic pistol stalking across the balcony of a two story boarding house that police were searching." Sgt. Stringer got out of the car and joined fellow officers in shaking down adjacent buildings looking for the suspect. Capt. Westbrook was then alone in his unmarked, dark blue police car and, in my opinion, drove about 50 feet past the Texaco station, turned right and drove about 150 feet to an alley where he again turned right. On the left side of the alley was the back side of the Abundant Life Church. On the right side of the alley was a long row of cars, parked side by side (see photo above). One of those cars was a 1954 Oldsmobile where the shooter’s jacket (LEE Oswald's jacket) was either left there by LEE Oswald or, more likely, thrown under the car ("planted") by Westbrook. Either way, it is no accident that Westbrook drove directly to the car lot behind the Texaco station, and then just happened to be in the exact place where the jacket was "found" less than one minute after he arrived. Was there any reason, other than "finding the shooter's jacket," for Westbrook to drive from the Book Depository directly to the parking lot behind the Texaco Station?

Motorcycle officer John R. Mackey was in the parking lot behind the Texaco station. Mackey said: "About the time we reached the area the dispatcher was broadcasting information regarding the suspect & his escape route. We pulled up on Jefferson & started checking some cars parked behind a service station to see if the suspect was hiding in or under one of the cars. That's when we found his jacket. We saw Captain Westbrook in his car on Jefferson so I turned the jacket over to him." Mackey said that he turned the jacket over to Capt. Westbrook. But when questioned by the Warren Commission Capt. Westbrook said that he could not remember the name of the officer who found the jacket. Westbrook told the WC, "…. I walked on towards the parking lot behind the Texaco service station, & some officer...said, 'Look! There's a jacket under the car.... So I walked over & reached under & picked up the jacket." Westbrook said that he picked up the jacket. While Westbrook's and Mackey's stories may differ, motorcycle patrolman Thomas Hutson, who was about 25 yards away, told the HSCA that he saw Capt. Westbrook standing in the alley holding the jacket.

In 1978 researcher Larry Ray Harris interviewed John Mackey, who refused to discuss the jacket. Mackey told Harris, "that information might be something they--senior Dallas Police officials--don't want given out." I doubt that "senior Dallas Police officials" would care whether it was Westbrook or Mackey who "found" the jacket. However, "senior Dallas Police officials" would not want to give out any information that suggested Capt. Westbrook was somehow connected with finding the jacket.

Officer Hutson was questioned by the Warren Commission:

Mr. Belin. All right, now, prior to that time had there been any recovery of any items of clothing? Mr. Hutson. Yes, sir. Mr. Belin. When did that occur? Mr. Hutson. That occurred while we were searching the rear of the house in the 400 block of East Jefferson Boulevard at the rear of the Texaco station.... I was approximately 25 yards away from the officer who picked it up....Captain Westbrook was there behind the house with us, and he was there at the time this was picked up with the man, but I don't know who had it in their hands. The only time I saw it was when the officer had it.

Capt. Westbrook told the Warren Commission "actually, I didn't find it--it was pointed out to me by either some officer....someone pointed out a jacket to me that was laying under a car and I got the jacket and told the officer to take the license number." Once again, Westbrook, the head of personnel, failed to identify the officer who discovered the jacket. Westbrook then told the Commission that he turned the jacket over to one of the officers, but once again he could not remember the name of this officer. Westbrook, in charge of personnel, could not remember the name a single police officer with whom he came in contact that afternoon. More lies from Westbrook.

If Westbrook was not involved with the jacket then he should have driven directly to the scene of Tippit's murder. Instead, Westbrook drove from the Book Depository directly to the Texaco station and, less than a minute later, just happened to be at the exact spot where the jacket was found in this large parking lot.

At 1:25 PM, only one minute after finding the jacket, the police dispatcher received a call from police unit #279 that the suspect had "dumped it, the jacket, on this parking lot behind this service station at 400 block East Jefferson....he had a white jacket on. We believe this is it." The police dispatch logs show that "unit #279" reported finding the jacket, but the log does not identify the officer by name. Unit number 279 was used by two officers--J.T. Griffin and J.R. Mackey, but only Mackey was in the parking lot next to the Texaco station. And why would motorcycle patrolman John Mackey radio in such important information when Capt. Westbrook was with him? I believe the officer who identified himself to the dispatcher as unit #279 was not Mackey, but was Capt. Westbrook, who used Mackey's unit number when he called the dispatcher. Interested readers should listen to the DPD police dispatch recording of unit #279. The voice is that of a middle-age man (Westbrook?), not a young man (Mackey). NOTE: Officer John Mackey supposedly found the jacket, along with Capt. Westbrook, but neither policeman initialed the jacket or wrote a police report about finding the jacket. Why was Mackey never interviewed by the FBI, Secret Service, the Warren Commission, or the HSCA and asked about finding and identifying the suspects jacket? Because Mackey may have said that it was Westbrook who found the jacket.

Finding the jacket was important, but there was a bigger problem. Whose jacket was it? There was nothing to indicate this jacket belonged to the man who shot and killed Tippit. Capt. Westbrook needed a witness to connect the jacket to the shooter.

Nine minutes later, at 1:34 PM, Capt. Westbrook reported to the police dispatcher, "We've got a witness that seen him go north….after….shed his jacket." But Capt. Westbrook was once again lying. Westbrook never, ever had such a witness, but Westbrook desperately needed a witness to say that the jacket belonged to the man who matched the description of the shooter. Without a witness, there was no way to connect the jacket to the man who shot Tippit. Westbrook was the one and only police officer who said there was a witness that saw the suspect shed his jacket, but no such witness was ever identified or located. More lies from Capt. Westbrook, in order to cover up his involvement with finding/planting LEE Oswald's jacket.

Capt. Westbrook quickly left the parking lot and drove a few blocks east to the library, in response to a report that a suspicious man was seen entering the building. After Sgt. Owens reported it was the wrong man at the library Capt. Westbrook drove to the Tippit murder scene at 10th & Patton, allegedly for the first time, arriving about 1:37-1:38 PM. While at 10th & Patton Capt. Westbrook needed to be very careful. If Westbrook was the man seen by Mrs. Holan inspecting Tippit's body after he was shot and killed, then Westbrook's return to 10th & Patton had to be very brief. Otherwise, witnesses may have remembered his presence at 10th & Patton when Tippit was murdered.

But Capt. Westbrook had a very good reason for driving to 10th & Patton. It was there, at the murder scene, that Westbrook showed fellow police officers the wallet given to him a half hour earlier when he briefly met up with LEE Oswald. Identification in this wallet would identify "Lee Harvey Oswald" as the prime suspect in the murder of officer Tippit. Identification for "Alek Hidell," also found in this wallet, would link Oswald/Hidell to the rifle found on the 6th floor of the Book Depository. There were now many police and dozens and dozens of on-lookers at 10th & Patton with whom Westbrook could mingle. Fortunately, for Westbrook, nobody recognized him as the man who was with LEE Oswald when Tippit was shot and killed.

A few minutes later, at 1:42 PM, crime lab officers George Doughty, W.E. Barnes, and Paul Bentley arrived and inspected the wallet produced by Westbrook. FBI Agent Bob Barrett arrived, parked his car, and walked toward Tippit's patrol car. Barrett explained, "I went on over there and Captain Westbrook was there with several of his officers.... It hadn't been very long when Westbrook looked up and saw me and called me over. He had this wallet in his hand. Now, I don't know where he found it, but he had the wallet in his hand... the wallet was there. There's no getting around that. Westbrook had the wallet in his hand and asked me if I knew who these people were. I'm adamant that there was a wallet in somebody's hand and Westbrook asked me if I knew who 'Lee Harvey Oswald' was and who 'Hidell' were."

As Westbrook showed the wallet to Barrett and fellow DPD officers, WFAA-TV Channel 8 news photographer Ron Reiland filmed the wallet. Sgt. Bud Owens was holding the wallet while Capt. Doughty was looking at the wallet.

Westbrook's possession of the wallet at 10th & Patton shows that he knew LEE Oswald, and was involved with the pre-planned assassination of Officer Tippit and identifying Oswald as the man who murdered Tippit. After Westbrook showed the 2nd Oswald wallet to fellow police officers, HARVEY Oswald was now the one and only suspect in the murder of Officer Tippit, and the same man who left the Book Depository soon after President Kennedy was shot.

The 2nd Oswald wallet is the best single piece of evidence that proves Westbrook was involved in both a conspiracy to murder Officer Tippit and a conspiracy to frame HARVEY Oswald for the murder of both President Kennedy and Officer Tippit. If for any reason HARVEY Oswald had not been found in the Texas Theater, a nationwide manhunt would have begun for the former "defector" to the Soviet Union, the "communist" supporter of Castro, and the man who ordered the rifle found on the 6th floor of the Book Depository. The 2nd Oswald wallet produced and shown by Cap. Westbrook was never taken to police headquarters, never entered into evidence, never initialed by any police officer, never turned over to the identification bureau or homicide department, and never mentioned in a police report or FBI report or discussed with the Warren Commission. This wallet, shown to police officers and FBI Agent Barrett for only a few minutes, was last seen in Capt. Westbrook's hands and then disappeared forever.

Both Both Capt. Westbrook and Sgt. Croy were interviewed by the WC, but neither man said anything about the 2nd wallet. In March, 1996 FBI agent James Hosty published his book, Assignment: Oswald. For the first time, Hosty described how Capt. Westbrook showed a wallet to fellow police officers at 10th & Patton that contained identification for Lee Harvey Oswald and Alex Hidell. Hosty's book contained photos of the wallet and FBI agent Barrett's first hand account of Westbrook asking him if he knew Lee Harvey Oswald or Alex Hidell. Hosty, however, was unable to explain how Westbrook acquired the wallet nor could he explain what Westbrook did with the wallet after leaving 10th & Patton. Capt. Westbrook never wrote a report about the wallet, never entered the wallet into evidence, was never interviewed by the FBI about the wallet, and never, ever, discussed the wallet with anyone. When JFK researchers first learned about the 2nd Oswald wallet, from Hosty's book in early 1996, they were desperate to interview Westbrook. They soon learned that only a few weeks before Hosty's book was released, Capt Westbook suddenly died on February 21, 1996. After learning of the death of Capt. Westbrook researcher Jones Harris arranged for an interview with the first police officer at 10th & Patton, Sgt. Kenneth Croy. For the first time Sgt. Croy was asked what he knew about the 2nd wallet, and told Harris that an "unknown witness" gave him gave the wallet, which he then gave to Westbrook. It should not surprise anyone to learn there is, and never has been, any evidence to support or verify Croy's claim. Not one witness, not one ambulance driver, not one neighbor, and not one bystander nor anyone else saw a wallet lying on the street, in Tippit's car or anywhere. Ted Calloway arrived before Tippit's body was loaded in the ambulance. Callaway said, "I'll tell you one thing, there was no billfold at that scene. If there was, there would have been too many people who would have seen it." Neither Westbrook, Croy, or anyone told the Warren Commission or the HSCA about the 2nd Oswald wallet that appeared, and then disappeared, at 10th & Patton. Thirty three years later, in 1996, the 2nd wallet was first introduced to the public by former FBI agent James Hosty. Because of their actions and involvement at 10th & Patton, we now know that Westbrook, Croy, and LEE Oswald conspired to murder Officer Tippit, and frame HARVEY Oswald for the crime. CAPT. WESTBROOK RETURNS TO THE PARKING LOT

Westbrook was only at the Tippit murder scene for a few minutes. After showing identification in the wallet, which identified the shooter as Lee Harvey Oswald, Westbrook reclaimed the wallet and drove one block to the parking lot behind the Texaco Station. Crime lab officers George Doughty and W.E. Barnes either accompanied or followed Westbrook one block south to the parking lot where they photographed a 1954 Oldsmobile under which the jacket was allegedly found.WFAA-TV (Channel 8) news photographer Ron Reiland may also have accompanied Westbrook to the parking lot where a brief film clip was made of a police officer holding the jacket.

At 1:44 PM, while Westbrook was in the parking lot next to the Texaco station, the police dispatcher reported, "Have information a suspect just went in the Texas Theater on West Jefferson ... supposed to be hiding in balcony" (17H418). Reporter Jim Ewell was in the parking lot with Westbrook and recalled, "They were discussing it [the jacket] when the report came in that a suspect had just gone into the Texas Theater. Immediately, Capt. Westbrook and Sergeant Stringer ran back to their car, which was across the street, and I ran to jump in the backseat. By that time, they were already turning out and accelerating. When I got in the backseat with the door still hanging open, I came out of the car hanging onto to the door. They slowed down long enough for me to get back in." Capt. Westbrook could say nothing to the WC about running to his car and driving to the Texas Theater, because he already told the WC that an unknown officer had driven him from 10th & Patton to the Texas Theater. Westbrook said, "when I left this scene, I turned this jacket over to one of the officers and I went by that church, I think, and I think that would be on 10th Street." But Capt. Westbrook was lying again. He did not give the jacket to one of the officers. He had crime lab personnel Barnes and Doughty initial the jacket for evidence, held onto the jacket, and then took the jacket to police headquarters. Westbrook wrote a police report about the jacket,and placed the jacket in evidence at 3:00 PM. News reporter Jim Ewell described how Capt. Westbrook had driven his unmarked, dark blue police vehicle from the car lot and parked directly in front of the Texas Theater. Ewell said, "I went up these stairs into the balcony. I stepped to the railing where I could look down onto this. Then I saw the fight that broke out. Someone was trying to hold the barrel of a shotgun, or train the barrel of a shotgun down among the heads of these officers. I don't know what was going on, but this person was holding a shotgun; I did see that." The only Dallas police officer known to have a shotgun at the Tippit murder scene was Capt. Westbrook, which he admitted during his Warren Commission testimony.

As the police scuffled with HARVEY Oswald, Officer McDonald grabbed the .38 caliber revolver from Oswald's hand and passed it to Officer Bob Carroll. After Oswald was handcuffed, Capt. Westbrook ordered his officers to “cover his face” and “get him out of here." “Cover his face” because Westbrook knew that LEE Oswald was also in the theater. These two young men, HARVEY and LEE, looked very much alike, and it would be difficult to explain why both were in the Texas Theater at the same time.

Capt Westbrook then told Lt. Cunningham to take the names and addresses of each and every person in the theater (Lt. Cunningham and J.B. Tony remained at the theater and took the names and addresses of each person). Lt. Cunningham and J.B. Tony likely obtained the names and addresses of 24 theater patrons. However, there was at least one young man who had no identification, and that was LEE Oswald, who had given his wallet to Capt. Westbrook. After completing the list Lt. Cunningham and Tony should have given the list of names to the officer in charge--Capt. Westbrook. But Capt. Westbrook told the Warren Commission that he didn't know what happened to the list--it was lost. More lies from Westbrook, but necessary to hide the identity of the young man arrested in the balcony.

As HARVEY Oswald was taken out the front of the theater a DPD officer told Julia Postal, "we have our man on both counts." Julia said this was the first time she heard about Tippit's death and the officers arresting Oswald had identified him by calling his name-- "Oswald" (interview with Julia Postal by SA Carter 2/28/64). Thanks to Captain Westbrook, most of the police officers participating in Oswald's arrest already knew his name.

As previously mentioned Jones Harris, a long time assassination investigator, arrived in Dallas the day after the assassination. He interviewed Julia Postal in the office of the manager of the Texas Theater. Harris asked her, when she saw (HARVEY) Oswald being led out of the theater by the police, if she had sold him a ticket. Postal immediately burst into tears. Harris walked out of the office and returned a short time later. When Harris asked again if she sold (HARVEY) Oswald a ticket she again burst into tears. Butch Burroughs, interviewed by Texas researcher Jim Marrs, said that Julia Postal knows that she sold (HARVEY) Oswald a ticket. Burroughs collected movie tickets when patrons entered the theater. When Burroughs sold HARVEY Oswald popcorn, a few minutes after he entered the theater, he must have recognized (HARVEY) Oswald as a paying customer. Otherwise, Burroughs would have asked him if he bought a ticket.

HARVEY Oswald, wearing a long sleeve brown shirt, was brought out the front entrance of the Texas Theater and placed in Capt. Westbrook's dark blue, unmarked police car (see photo below).

News reporter Jim Ewell watched as the police brought HARVEY Oswald out the front of the theater. Ewell said, "The next thing I recall is that I was out on the street with the car that I arrived in between me and the officers bringing Oswald out of the theater as they kind of separated the crowd and made an aisle for him to come through to get to the car. I'd say that I was about ten to twelve feet away from Oswald at the time." After HARVEY Oswald was placed in the police car Jim Ewell said, "Oswald then took my place in the backseat of the same car that I arrived in--the car driven to the Texas Theater by Capt. Westbrook." Capt Westbrook parked his dark blue, unmarked police car directly in front of the Texas Theater

Officer Bob Carrol drove, Gerry Hill was in the middle, and officer K.E. Lyons was on the far right. HARVEY Oswald was in the backseat, in the middle, with officer Paul Bentley on his right and C.T. Walker on his left. When Capt. Westbrook was interviewed by the WC he could say nothing about Oswald taken to police headquarters in his unmarked police car, because Westbrook had already said that he was driven to the theater by an unidentified officer. Westbrook was now without a police car. From the police dispatch at 1:44 PM it had taken the Dallas police less than eight minutes to drive from 10th & Patton to the Texas Theater, arrest HARVEY Oswald, place him in Westbrook's unmarked police car, and leave for the police station at 1:52 PM.

By the time HARVEY Oswald was placed in the back seat of Capt. Westbrook's unmarked police car, Westbrook had been directly involved with two crucial pieces of evidence--the light colored jacket and the 2nd Oswald wallet. There was now only one remaining item that LEE Oswald gave to Westbrook after he shot and killed Tippit-- the .38 caliber revolver. When Officer Bob Carrol got into Westbrook's unmarked police car he gave the .38 caliber revolver taken from HARVEY Oswald to Gerry Hill, who worked directly for Westbrook. I have wondered for years if Westbrook quietly told Gerry Hill to take this revolver directly to his (Westbrook's) office instead of turning the revolver over to Homicide and Robbery. I will probably never know the answer, but when Hill arrived at police headquarters he walked past Homicide and Robbery, down the hall, and took the revolver straight to the personnel office and placed it on a desk next to Capt. Westbrook.

Here is a question for readers: Tippit was shot and killed with a .38 revolver. HARVEY Oswald was arrested with a .38 revolver. Is it possible that Capt. Westbrook provided nearly identical .38 revolvers of the same make and model to each man?

Something happened in the 2nd floor balcony.

LEE Oswald, wearing the white t-shirt, was arrested in the balcony of the theater. At the Texas Theater Deputy Sheriff Bill Courson hurried up the stairs to the balcony and later said that he was "reasonably satisfied in his own mind" that he met LEE Harvey Oswald coming down the front stairs. Lt. Cunningham and Detective J.B. Toney encountered the young man and began to question him. As Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers rushed up the stairs to the balcony, he saw the officers as they were questioning the young man. This young man (LEE Oswald) may have been stopped and questioned, because his clothing matched the most recent police description of the suspect wearing a white t-shirt and dark pants. A police report, prepared by Detective L.D. Stringfellow, states that Lee Harvey Oswald WAS arrested in the balcony of the Texas Theater. What I have never understood is why Stringfellow was never asked by the Dallas Police Dept., the FBI, the Warren Commission, the HSCA, or anyone to explain his report about Lee Harvey Oswald arrested in the BALCONY. Why?

HOMICIDE REPORT: LEE OSWALD KILLED OFFICER TIPPIT

After HARVEY Oswald was taken out the front of the theater, Capt. Westbrook told Lt. Cunningham to take the names and addresses of all theater patrons, which would have included the name and address of the young man that he and Detective Toney had just questioned in the balcony. Not surprisingly, this list disappeared, along with the name of the young man arrested in the balcony.

Butch Burroughs, the theater concessionaire, said that he saw two different young men arrested in the Texas Theater. Burroughs saw HARVEY Oswald arrested in the lower section and then, "three or four minutes later," he watched as the Dallas police arrested "an Oswald lookalike." Burroughs added that the second man arrested "looked almost like Oswald, like he was his brother or something." The young man was handcuffed and escorted by police out the rear of the Texas Theater and into the alley. Could Capt. Westbrook have been one of the police officers who escorted LEE Oswald, in handcuffs, out the rear of the theater? Very likely.

Bernard Haire, owner of a hobby shop two doors east of the theater, saw police escort a young man, in handcuffs, out the rear of the theater. Police put the young man into a squad car and drove away. For the next 25 years Mr. Haire thought he had seen the arrest of LEE Harvey Oswald. Bernard Haire and Butch Burroughs saw police take LEE Harvey Oswald out the back of the theater. Who, if not Captain Westbrook, had reason to escort LEE Oswald out of the back of the theater? And who at the Texas theater, if not Capt. Westbrook, had the authority to quickly release this young man and make sure that no police report was filed? Who, if not Capt. Westbrook? After the young man was taken out the rear of the theater Bernard Haire saw him placed into a squad car. The young man in handcuffs was driven away, but was not taken to the police station. Where did he go? Who was driving this car? This young man, LEE Oswald, was likely driven to or near the El Chico parking lot, 6 blocks north of the theater, where a red Ford Falcon was waiting. Not surprisingly there is not a single police report relating to a suspect, or anyone, escorted by police out the rear of the Texas Theater, just like there is no report of the 2nd Oswald wallet displayed by Capt. Westbrook to fellow police officers at 10th & Patton. Around 2:03 PM Capt Westbrook and Sergeant Stringer got into a police car, allegedly driven by patrolman Roy L. Gross, and Westbrook notified the dispatcher, "Notify my office, I'm en route, will you ?" A few minutes later Westbrook arrived at police headquarters. Across the street from the El Chico parking lot was Mack Pate's garage, where T. F. White, a career auto mechanic, was listening to the news and to the many police sirens. White soon noticed a young man sitting in a red Ford Falcon, with the engine running, across the street in the El Chico parking lot. After watching the car for a while, Mr. White walked across the street and from about 10-15 feet got a good look at the driver before the car raced out of the parking lot. Mr. White wrote down the Texas license plate number of the car, PP4537 and, after seeing Oswald's picture on television later that afternoon, realized the man he saw in the car was Lee Harvey Oswald. But what Mr. White did not realize was that when he saw LEE Oswald sitting in the red Ford Falcon, HARVEY Oswald was sitting in jail at police headquarters. The license plate on the car was not registered to a red Ford Falcon. The license plate was registered to a 1957 blue Plymouth that belonged to Carl Mather, a very close friend of Officer Tippit, the man who LEE Oswald had shot and killed only an hour earlier. The TDPS (Texas Dept of Publc Safety) provides two license plates for each vehicle--one for the front and one for the back side of a vehicle. Someone removed one, or perhaps both, of the license plate(s) from Carl Mather's 1957 Plymouth and put at least one of those plates on the back side the red Ford Falcon driven by LEE Oswald and seen in the El Chico parking lot by Mr. White. Who this person was and their reason for removing the license plate(s) from a vehicle owned by a close friend of Officer Tippit remains unknown.

On 12/4/63 Wes Wise (future mayor of Dallas) was giving a talk at the Exchange Club in Oak Cliff. Auto repair shop owner Mac Pate was in the audience and later told Wise that LEE Harvey Oswald was seen sitting in a red 1961 Ford Falcon across the street from his auto repair shop at 2:00 PM on 11/22/63. Wise then met with Pate, mechanic T.F. White, contacted the Texas Dept of Public Safety, and was interviewed by the FBI--all on the same day (click here for details).

Around 2:15 PM Sgt. Hill, assigned to the personnel office, brought the .38 revolver, taken from HARVEY Oswald at the theater, to Capt. Westbrook's office. This gun should have been taken immediately to Homicide and Robbery, but Hill brought the gun to the personnel office.

This .38 revolver remained in Capt. Westbrook's personnel office for the next hour. I believe that Westbrook secretly switched the revolver now laying on his desk, taken from HARVEY Oswald at the theater, with the .38 revolver used to murder Tippit and given to him by LEE Oswald. One hour later the .38 revolver used to murder Tippit was initialed by police officers in Westbrook's office, entered into evidence, and turned over to the FBI later that evening.

The .38 revolver taken from HARVEY Oswald and brought to Westbrook's office by Sgt. Hill disappeared, and was never seen again, just like the 2nd Oswald wallet--thanks to Capt. Westbrook.

After Oswald arrived at police headquarters he was placed in a small room. Capt. Fritz, who would soon question the suspect, was told by a fellow police officer that (HARVEY) Oswald resided in a rooming house on Beckley. Capt. Fritz told the Warren Commission, "When I started to talk to this prisoner or maybe just before I started to talk to him, some officer told me outside of my office that he had a room on Beckley, I don't know who that officer was.... Commission Attorney Joseph Ball asked Fritz, "Some officer told you that he thought this man had a room on Beckley?" Fritz answered, "Yes, sir."

Capt. Fritz had a reputation for being able to remember minute details of investigations that occurred years earlier. Yet Fritz told the WC that he could not remember the name of the officer who told him the address of the man accused of killing President Kennedy and murdering Officer Tippit! I have no doubt this unidentified officer was Capt. Westbrook. If not Westbrook, then who in the Dallas Police Dept. would have any reason to know that HARVEY Oswald had a room on Beckley? If Capt Westbrook drove police car #207 past 1026 N. Beckley an hour earlier, and honked the horn, then Westbrook knew the address of Oswald's rooming house, which he gave to Capt. Fritz.

Capt. Fritz then began to question HARVEY Oswald, and asked about his address at 2515 W. 5th in Irving. Oswald explained to Fritz that his wife and children lived in Irving, but he had a room at 1026 Beckley. After further discussion Fritz soon realized that the address was on "North" Beckley--instead of "South" Beckley. Fritz then stepped outside the room and instructed officers Senkel, Potts, and Cunningham to go to 1026 N. Beckley.

Mrs. A.C. Johnson, the owner of 1026 N. Beckley, her husband Arthur Carl Johnson, and housekeeper Earlene Roberts were interviewed by the Warren Commission. These people all testified that three plainclothes officers arrived between 1:30 PM and 2:00 PM, and were joined shortly thereafter by two FBI agents. Mr. Johnson said the police arrived "around 1:30 or 2 o'clock." Mrs. Johnson said they arrived at "1:30 or 2, something like that." Earlene Roberts said, "Mrs. Johnson told me, 'Go get your keys and let them see in.' I had gone to the back and they still had the TV on, and they was broadcasting about Kennedy. Just as I unlocked the doors Fritz' men, two of them had walked in and she come running in and said, 'Oh, Roberts, come here quick. This is this fellow Lee in this little room next to yours,' and they flashed him on television, is how come us to know." HARVEY Oswald's photo appeared on television for the first time at 2:20 PM, just as Capt Fritz was beginning to question Oswald. Mrs. Roberts let the police and two FBI agents into the room occupied by Oswald, and said they took everything in the room, including a pillow case and two towels and wash cloths. According to the Johnsons and Roberts the police arrived within minutes of Oswald's arrest, and then searched his room and removed evidence prior to securing a search warrant.

Around 3:15 PM Capt. Fritz sent Detective Baker to Capt. Westbrook's personnel office to pick up the 38 caliber revolver taken to Westbrook's officer by Sgt. Gerry Hill, and take it to Homicide and Robbery. We must now remember that after shooting Tippit at 10th & Patton, LEE Oswald met up with Capt. Westbrook and gave him the gun used to kill Tippit (circa 1:10 PM). After arriving at police headquarters, shortly after 2:00 PM, Westbrook brought that gun to his office where it was hidden for the next hour. There were now two .38 caliber revolvers in Westbrook's office--the murder weapon (hidden) and the gun taken from Oswald at the Texas Theater that was placed on a desk in Westbrook's office. I believe that Westbrook switched these revolvers. The gun taken from Oswald at the theater disappeared, while the gun used to kill Tippit would soon be placed in evidence.

At 3:15 PM Det. Baker arrived from Homicide and Robbery to pick up the gun. Before surrendering the gun to Det. Baker, officers McDonald, Bentley, Carroll, and Hill initialed the .38 revolver (see above). THE GUN PICKED UP BY DET. BAKER AND ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE was now the gun used to murder Tippit. The gun taken from HARVEY Oswald at the Texas Theater disappeared and was never seen again. Det. Baker took possession of the .38 revolver and 6 rounds of live ammunition (3 Western .38 Special & 3 Remington-Peters .38 Special) and then returned to Homicide and Robbery.

Capt. Will Fritz, in charge of Homicide and Robbery, then asked traffic Officer R.A. Davenport to take the gun and 3 live shells to Capt. Dougherty in the identification bureau. This revolver, serial #510210, was then turned over to FBI agent Vincent Drain at 11:05 PM, and immediately taken to FBI headquarters in Washington, DC.

Officer Gerry Hill, now working directly for Capt. Westbrook, was a former television news reporter. Later that afternoon, only a couple of hours after HARVEY Oswald's arrest, he was interviewed by reporters on camera. Hill appeared on television and began talking about Oswald's "defection" and his life in the Soviet Union. When the reporter asked Hill how he knew about Oswald's activities in the Soviet Union, Hill said “Westbrook told me!” It is obvious that on the day President Kennedy and Officer Tippit were murdered Captain Westbrook knew far too much about HARVEY Oswald.

Capt. Westbrook is interviewed by the Warren Commission

On April 6, 1964 Capt. Westbrook was interviewed by the Warren commission. Prior to the interview the Commission asked Westbrook to provide a resume relating to his involvement with the Tippit shooting. Westbrook prepared a resume, but left out, omitted, and lied about many important details. One of the most important details was Westbrook's involvement relating to the suspect's light colored jacket. Westbrook failed to mention anything about finding the suspect's jacket. Commission attorney Joseph Ball soon began to realize that Westbrook had omitted important details and made several false statements in his self-prepared resume. Ball said to Westbrook, "You gave me a sort of a resume of what you had done, but you omitted this incident (finding the jacket). When did this happen? Westbrook explained that the jacket was "found" in the parking lot behind the Texaco station, but he could not remember the name of the officer who picked up the jacket. Later, Westbrook said that he picked up the jacket. Westbrook said that he "turned this jacket over to one of the officers" but could not remember the name of the officer. Westbrook told the Commission that he didn't have a police car that day and he rode with another officer, name not recalled, from the Book Depository to the Tippit murder scene. This was a lie. The truth is that Westbrook drove his dark blue, unmarked police car to the Ballew Texaco Station on Jefferson Blvd, and not to the Tippit murder scene. And Westbrook did not ride with another officer--this was another lie. The truth is that Westbrook drove his unmarked police car and was accompanied by Sgt. Stringer and news reporter Jim Ewell. Westbrook said that he rode in a car driven by FBI agent Bob Barrett from 10th & Patton to the Texas Theater, another lie. The truth is that Westbrook drove his unmarked police police car from the Texaco parking lot to the theater and was accompanied by Sgt. Stringer and news reporter Jim Ewell. Westbrook told the Commission that he arrived in the alley behind the theater in a police car driven by an officer whose name he cannot remember--another lie. The truth is that Westbrook parked his unmarked police car directly in front of the theater. Westbrook told the Commission that after Oswald was arrested he went to the back of the theater--another lie. The truth is that Westbrook went out the front of the theater behind, the officers who took HARVEY Oswald to Westbrook's unmarked, dark blue police car. At 10th & Patton Westbrook showed a wallet to fellow police officers that contained identification for "Lee Harvey Oswald" and "Alek Hidell," the most important piece of evidence in the Tippit murder, yet Westbrook could not, and did not, say anything about a 2nd wallet to the Warren Commission. Capt Westbrook did everything he could to distance himself from the jacket, the wallet, and his involvement in the murder of Officer Tippit. The lies and factual omissions in Capt. Westbrook's testimony are obvious:

1) they disguise Westbrook's whereabouts and activities from 12:35 to 1:15 PM on 11/22/63;

2) they hide Westbrook's direct involvement in Tippit's murder at 10th & Patton;

3) they omit Westbrook's role in linking the jacket to HARVEY Oswald as Tippit's assailant;

4) they hide Westbrook's involvement in the probable disappearance of the list of witnesses at the Texas Theater and, most important, the identity of the young man arrested and taken out the back of the Texas Theater;

5) they hide the fact that Westbrook was the only person who likely had personal possession of the 3 most important items of evidence in the Tippit shooting--the 2nd Oswald wallet, the jacket, and the revolver taken from HARVEY Oswald.

6) they omit any reference to a 2nd Oswald arrested in the balcony of the Texas Theater and the identity of police officers who escorted him out the back of the theater.

7) they hide Westbrook's detailed knowledge about HARVEY Oswald's background and where he was living on 11/22/63

8) they hide Westbrook's, and officers who worked directly for him in the personnel department, direct involvement in the arrest of HARVEY Oswald.

And let's not forget that following the assassination of President Kennedy, Capt. Westbrook relocated to South Vietnam, where he worked as an advisor to the Saigon Police Dept. courtesy of the CIA.

Reserve officer Sgt. Kenneth Croy is interviewed by the Warren Commission

Capt. Westbrook was in charge of the Training and Research Section of the Dallas Police Dept., which included the police academy, recruit classes, and reserve officers. Curiously, reserve officer Sgt. Kenneth Croy was not listed anywhere on the police roster given to the Warren Commission.

Croy may have been one of the policemen who searched McWatters’ bus, shortly after HARVEY Oswald left the bus to look for a taxi. Croy may have been the uniformed officer sitting in the passenger seat of police car #207 when Earlene Roberts saw this car drive past Oswald's rooming house and honk the horn around 1:00 PM. Croy just happened to be the first officer at the scene of the Tippit shooting--likely seen by Virginia Davis moments after Tippit was shot. Croy just happened to drive from 10th & Patton to the Texas Theater, and may have driven LEE Oswald from the alley behind the theater to the El Chico parking lot.

In my opinion, however, Westbrook and Croy's involvement with Tippit's murder did not end on November 22. I read Croy's Warren Commission testimony and was somewhat shocked at what I read. Few questions were asked of Croy about his presence at the Tippit murder. Most of the questions related directly to Croy's presence and his activities in the basement of the Dallas Police station when HARVEY Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. Croy told the Warren Commission that he was standing next to Ruby in the basement, and tried to stop him when Ruby suddenly lunged toward Oswald and shot him. Curiously, Croy's name is not listed as one of the officers near the scene of the shooting when Ruby shot Oswald.

After reading Croy's testimony, I am convinced that Croy was the person who allowed Ruby to gain entrance to the basement so that he could kill HARVEY Oswald. Please, I urge you to read Croy's Warren Commission testimony and draw your own conclusions.

NOTE: following the shooting of HARVEY Oswald by Jack Ruby, Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry assembled a special squad of detectives to investigate the murder of Oswald. Their assignment was to determine if Ruby had advance knowledge of the time of Oswald's transfer, which would strongly suggest there was a plot to murder Oswald that involved someone within the Dallas Police Department. The senior officer in this "special squad" was Capt. Westbrook, who told the HSCA "our most significant achievement was demonstrating beyond a doubt Ruby couldn't have had advance notice of LHO's transfer time." (Click here to read the HSCA report.) I speculate that Capt. Westbrook told Ruby the time of Oswald's transfer, while Sgt. Croy stood next to Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Police Department while waiting for HARVEY Oswald.

Today, over 50 years after President Kennedy and J.D. Tippit were murdered, we can look back and begin to understand more and more about Capt. Westbrook and Sgt. Croy's involvement in the Tippit murder and the murder of HARVEY Oswald. Westbrook and Croy likely boarded McWatters’ bus, but did not find HARVEY Oswald. Westbrook and Croy needed to find Oswald, and drove police car #207 past Oswald's rooming house and honked the horn. Westbrook and Croy likely drove HARVEY Oswald to the theater where he arrived between 1:01-1:07 PM. Westbrook and Croy likely witnessed LEE Oswald murder Tippit. Croy remained at 10th & Patton while Westbrook likely met up with LEE Oswald, who gave him the jacket, wallet, and .38 revolver. Westbrook likely planted the jacket in parking lot next to the Texaco station. Westbrook showed the 2nd wallet to fellow police officers at 19th & Patton. Westbrook was directly involved in Oswald's arrest. The list of theater patrons prepared and likely given to Westbrook by Lt. Cunningham disappeared. Westbrook may have escorted LEE Oswald out the back of the Texas Theater. Westbrook told Capt. Fritz that HARVEY Oswald had a room on Beckley St. Westbrook likely switched the revolver brought to his office with the revolver used to kill Tippit. Westbrook's knowledge of HARVEY Oswald's life in the Soviet Union, which he described to Gerry Hill, has never been explained. Westbrook and Croy were both in the basement of the police station when Ruby shot and killed HARVEY Oswald. Westbrook's many lies and omissions to the Warren Commission covered-up his direct involvement with the Tippit murder.

Following the assassination of President Kennedy, Westbrook was relocated to South Vietnam where he was a CIA-sponsored advisor to the Saigon Police Dept. Now we finally realize and understand that Westbrook was working for the CIA, the agency in which rogue hi-level individuals such as David Atlee Phillips, E. Howard Hunt, and likely Allen Dulles planned and carried out the assassination of President Kennedy. There is no doubt, at least in my mind, that Capt. Westbrook was deeply involved as a co-conspirator. The one, important, unanswered question, is the identity of Westbrook's CIA co-conspirators.