Is what stinks to me.

The assassination is about 12:30. Oswald leaves the depository and heads to his rooming house, about 4 miles from Dealey plaza. The old lady who owns the house says he comes in, goes back to his room briefly and heads out again.

About 1:10 Tippit is shot in the vicinity. Before the shooting a couple witnesses said they saw the police car cruising around the area at a slow pace.

By this time the entire Dallas police department was in helter skelter mode. Either at Dealey Plaza, headed there, at police headquarters or headed there, or at Parkland hospital or headed there.

Now draw a 4 mile diameter circle around the assassination site--the distance to Oswald's rooming house. That is a gigantic area. So we have this one cop crawling along and pulling over and confronting this one guy walking along, and that turns out to be the guy.

It's too much for me to swallow.

Plus Oswald then flees that scene and heads up a street full of various businesses. He steps into the entrance way of a couple stores, to duck the attention now coming in response to the shot policeman, as he heads up the street to the movie theater. It seems to me he was headed specifically to that theater from the start for whatever reason. Either that or his big post assassination plan was to go to his rooming house, get his pistol, take a stroll and then go catch a movie.

The one cop on the entire Dallas Police force who was slowly patrolling a residential area far from the assassination site just happened to spot a guy, confront him, and that turned out to be the guy.

All the officers were at Dealey. A lot were. A lot on there way. A lot at headquarters, a lot on there way. A lot at Parkland a lot on there way.

Tippit's actions and position were unique.

Is that one Dallas cop car pulled over and confronted one walking citizen in a residential neighborhood 45 minutes after the shooting. What luck, it was the assassin.

Western Union time stamp in his pocket at arrest stamped 11:17...Jack walks across street down two blocks into the police basment, Oswald is brought out and Ruby shoots him at 11:21.

On live TV video butting in and authoritatively correcting a police office being interviewed that Oswald was the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and not Free Cuba.

Boy, the owner of the local titty bar sure knows a lot.

We have to dismiss the old lady who owned Oswald's rooming house as a liar or a victim of hallucinations. She testified, unambiguously, that in the time Oswald entered the house and was briefly in his room after the assassination, a police car pulled in front of the house, tapped the horn a couple times and slowly pulled away.

Were the many factions that had sufficient hatred for Kennedy to not mind him being dead.........What luck. A kook took care of the problem.

Are obnoxious and belligerent today, try them on for size in the early 1960's.

Their outlook on Kennedy back then is pretty simple. First he stole the election. Second they were probably aware of his health problems and drug usage and his womanizing. So they looked at him as stealing the office and fucking and drugged up while the Commies were moving strong.

I'd say killing was definitely within their parameters.

I saw that radio dispatch from Police headquarters to the force---proceed out into the suburbs of Dallas and look for a slender white guy walking down the sidewalk.

I'd have sent any available officers not at the various crime scenes to the airport instead. Or Bus or train station. About a half hour before the Tippit shooting.

Ruby was a police groupie and did follow the events very closely the entire weekend. In fact he was at the police department a lot of the time.

This makes it particularly noteworthy that Captain Fritz notifed the media, broadcast universally, that they should be there at 10:00 Sunday morning and they could cover the planned Oswald transfer to County jail.

Ruby, following all events carefully, and present at the big ones like the Oswald press conference doesn't arrive donwtown Sunday morning until after 11:00.

Transfer much later than anounced the evening before.

What luck.

A worker in a tower in the parking lot area, with the knoll and stockade fence to his right testified that as he watched the motorcade to his front a flash or something out of the ordinary caught his peripheral vision along the tree/fence line.

He's the key. I refuse to accept or believe that he was far from Dealey Plaza cruising around very slowly looking for a suspect in the assassination, and pulled up to the walking Oswald as a suspect.

But I don't claim to know why he pulled up to him.

Tippit's car slowly pulled up equal to the walking Oswald and moved along with him for a short distance before both stopped. Oswald then approached the car and leaned down with elbows resting and head nearly inside on the open passenger side window. Oswald then backed away, Tippit got out and Oswald started firing.

If Tippit considered Oswald a suspect in the assassination it was damn fuuny police work/procedure.

I would have been a very good Dallas Police Chief in 1963. I believe I would have requested a tape recorder at some point for the 3 days worth of interogation of Oswald.

The explanation of Oswald's motive was that he was a no-count bum, seething with ambition, who wanted to do something monumental.

How many times is he on media footage that weekend emphatically denying the charges? I've seen 5 seperate clips.

Denying what he wanted?

I wish Oswald was alive so he could give us his Kentucky Derby pick.

Wants attention. Defects to Soviet Union. Not much attention. Redefects to United States. Not much attention.

Oh boy the President is riding in an open motorcade below my building today.