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J. D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) was an American World War II U.S. Army veteran and police officer who served as an 11-year veteran with the Dallas Police Department. About 45 minutes after the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Tippit was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood in the Oak Cliff ...
Mar 3, 2014 · March 03, 2014 08:24 AM •. Lt. Dan Marcou. The son of a cotton farmer, J.D. Tippit was raised in the Red River Valley area in eastern Texas. This peaceful existence was interrupted by World War II, when he joined the army and volunteered for Airborne. Tippit earned a purple heart and a bronze star in heavy combat with the vaunted 17th ...
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BIOGRAPHY: 1952-1963. The Rookie Cop. In June 1952, J.D. Tippit quit the farm and moved his family back to Dallas. A month later, he was hired by the City of Dallas as an apprentice policeman at $250 dollars a month. [1] . The farm boy from Red River County had found his calling.
Officer Tippit was patrolling the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas when he received an urgent message from dispatch. What had started as an average day on the job, quickly shifted to one that required him to search for the president’s assassin. Collection of the National Law Enforcement Museum 2013.26.
By Saturday night, Dallas Police had already developed a substantial amount of evidence against Oswald in the slaying of Officer Tippit and the assassination of President Kennedy. Two eyewitnesses saw Oswald shoot Tippit and nine others witnessed his flight.
Officer J.D. Tippit was shot and killed while questioning the assassin of President John F. Kennedy at Tenth and Patton Streets. At approximately 1:14 pm, 45 minutes after President Kennedy was shot, Officer Tippit stopped the suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was on foot and fit the general description of the assassin that was being broadcast by ...
Complete biographical documentation on the life and murder of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit. NOVEMBER 22: THE EVIDENCE The evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald in the murder of Officer J.D. Tippit is substantial.
