Officer Tippit was from my town. Interesting article I found.

[Horse with no Name]

http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/the_critics/griffith/Why_Tippit_stopped_Oswald.html

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One of the most unlikely, implausible aspects of the Warren Commission's lone-gunman scenario is the assumption that Officer J. D. Tippit stopped Lee Harvey Oswald on the basis of the description of the alleged assassin that had been broadcast by the Dallas Police Department. It is doubtful that Oswald could have even reached the crime scene in time to shoot Tippit. It is equally doubtful that he could have arrived in time to have been casually walking along the street just before Tippit supposedly approached him and stopped him. But leaving aside these problems, one is struck by the implausible nature of the Commission's story of why Tippit would have stopped "Oswald" in the first place. Henry Hurt explains:

One of the oddest assumptions of the Warren Commission was that Officer Tippit stopped Oswald because he was able to identify him as the man described in the police broadcasts that started about 12:45 P.M. According to an FBI statement to the commission, the source of the original description was "an unidentified citizen." The description provided by this citizen (later assumed to be Howard Brennan) was for a man "running from the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the assassination."

The description itself was of a "white male, approximately thirty, slender build, height five feet, ten inches, weight one hundred sixty-five pounds" and believed to be armed with a .30-caliber rifle. This description missed Oswald by six years and about fifteen pounds, yet the Warren Commission reasoning accepted as fact that based on this description Officer Tippit stopped Oswald. (Reasonable Doubt, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985, p. 163)

The more one thinks about it, the more one realizes how extremely implausible and unlikely this scenario is. Why would Tippit have stopped Oswald? The police description could have fit a good quarter to a third of the male population of Dallas. "Oswald," or whoever it was, was some three miles from Dealey Plaza, walking in a quiet suburb when he was supposedly stopped by Tippit. None of the witnesses who saw Tippit's assailant just before Tippit stopped him said the man was walking unusually fast or in any way acting strange or suspicious. What's more, Tippit, though apparently well liked by his peers, was not exactly a zealous or above-average policeman. In fact, he hadn't been promoted in ten years. So why would Tippit have stopped Oswald?

[happyslug]

1. Because it is standard Police Procedure.

First descriptions are guidelines for the Police, for Example recently when an accident occurred where the car that hit and ran was a "Ford" SUV, the police were giving hard looks at ANY SUV (and pickups). Police know how inaccurate most eyewitnesses are so they sue the reports as guidelines.

Thus how would a police officer interpret a report of a "white male, approximately thirty, slender build, height five feet, ten inches, weight one hundred sixty-five pounds", First the officer will know NOT to look at women in shirts, that eliminate 1/2 the population (Through a tall woman would be looked over just in case). Most people get the race right, but you still look at light skinned blacks, but darker complexion blacks are out. Second, you know the person will be by himself, thus you do NOT look at people who are traveling in a group (Thus 30 year old white males with their girlfriends or wives are ignored). By now you have eliminated about 90-95% of the people on the streets. Experience at that point kicks in while you look at every male between ages 15 and 50 who is NOT traveling in a group, appears to be moving fast given that the President has been shoot (and not discussing the shooting or looking for news about the Shooting).

Sorry, it is VERY Possible. Tippit may even have been just looking any EVERY WHITE MALE WALKING ALONE FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE ASSASSINATIONS.

Do NOT get hanged up on every detail, police do not, they know that people will get the details WRONG, but the description if used as a Guideline can be very useful, for police will expand the scope of their look over of people to a broader group then the description itself covers.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Except he wasn't in the area that the assassination occurred

which was unusual procedure.
He was sent to Oak Cliff...instead of the area of the School Book Depository.
That is a pretty good distance without the trappings of a Presidential motorcade standing in the way.

[Rageneau]

3. J.D. Tippett bore a remarkable resemblence to JFK.

Why is that important? And why is it so hard to find photos of Tipett on the web?

Read "Best Evidence" by James Lifton, which proves that there were many unexplainable contradictions in the testimony of those who attended JFK's autopsy. Including the fact that -- at the autopsy -- the photos taken showed a small, neat little hole in the back of JFK's head. Those photos were supposed to be the official story -- but then the Zapruder film turned up, clearly showing that there was no small hole in the back of JFK's head, for the inconvenient reason that there WAS no back of JFK's head left.

So whose head WAS it in those autopsy photos?

J.D. Tippett bore a remarkable resemblence to JFK.

[Horse with no Name]

4. What an interesting theory

I had never heard it before. That is very possible.