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Curtis Glenn Tippit, age 67  BY DALE K. MYERS The youngest son of Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit has died at the age of 67.Curtis Glenn Tippit passed away Sunday night (01/04) at 10:36 p.m. at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, surrounded by his family.His death was sudden and unexpected, caused by Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL), a rare and aggressive form of cancer

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Hideo Koike Stood Near Jack Ruby at Midnight Presser FIG. 1 – Japanese reporter Hideo Koike (left, arrow) standing a few feet from Jack Ruby (right, glasses) at the midnight press conference held at Dallas police headquarters. Credit: WBAP-TV / G. William Jones Collection, Reel No. 5, Object No.2006.041.0007, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza  BY DALE K. MYERS with HIDEJI OKINA

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Disclaimer: All is Not What it Seems Joachim Joesten's 1964 book and newspaper artcle. [Graphic: Dale K. Myers]  BY DALE K. MYERS We’re now more than six decades down the road from November 22, 1963, and despite access to more original sources than any previous generation, the path to a clear, concise historical reality seems murkier than ever. At its core, the solution to

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BY DALE K. MYERS  It’s been one-hundred-years since a boy named J.D. Tippit was born in northeast Texas, in a small farming community near Annona. He would never live to see his fortieth birthday. That small-town farm boy was the Dallas cop who was gunned down on an Oak Cliff side street in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Tippit’s murder subsequently led to

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 BY DALE K. MYERS Respected Texas journalist Hugh G. Aynesworth, who covered the events surrounding the JFK assassination for six decades died at his home last night. He was 92. Dallas Morning News journalist Michael Granberry offered a beautiful, in-depth obituary available here. Hugh Aynesworth never wavered in his belief that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin and never

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The Murders of JFK and J.D. Tippit - Sixty Years On JFK assassination evidence at the National Archives in 1988. [Terry Ashe / Life / Getty Images]  BY DALE K. MYERS Conspiracy theorists have been having a good ole time for the past six decades re-writing what took place the weekend of November 22, 1963. Internet forums, annual gatherings in Dallas, and forgettable Facebook

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How Mark Lane and the Communist Party Bamboozled America [Getty Images / Graphic: © 2023 DKM]  BY DALE K. MYERS It’s been nearly six-decades since President John F. Kennedy and Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit were murdered on the streets of Dallas. The accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also gunned down forty-eight hours later – murder piled high upon murder. It would

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A Look at Retired Judge Burt W. Griffin’s New Book By DALE K. MYERS Retired Judge and former Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Burt W. Griffin’s new book, JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth (McFarland & Co., Inc., NC; 375 pp.; softback, 7 x 10”; Kindle) is just out and it’s a humdinger. Judge Griffin does a superb job in presenting the facts surrounding what

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Why the Conspirati Hate the Latest Book on Oliver Stone By DALE K. MYERS Author and researcher Fred Litwin had been drawing the ire of the conspirati ever since he released, I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak, in 2018. To say they hate him now would be an understatement. Litwin’s latest book, Oliver Stone’s Film Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza, tackles claims made in the 2022

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The framed photograph from Jack Christopher’s night stand. (© 2022 DKM. All Rights Reserved.) By DALE K. MYERS  Until his death in 2015, Jack Christopher kept a framed photograph of himself and his longtime best friend and brother-in-law, J.D. Tippit, on his bedroom night stand in Dallas. The photo depicted the pair in happier times – 1946 to be exact – when Jack and J.D.

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Why the Conspirati Will Never Embrace the Truth By DALE K. MYERS It’s been nearly twenty-years since I described the single bullet theory as “a single bullet fact” on the 2003 ABC-TV Special Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination – Beyond Conspiracy. “It’s not even a single bullet theory, in my opinion,” I said. “It’s a single bullet fact.” Of course, I prefaced my

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Locating the exact spot where the Dallas Patrolman fell The new 'X' on Tenth Street. (F. Badalson) By DALE K. MYERS Anyone familiar with the assassination story knows that J.D. Tippit, the Dallas Patrolman gunned down forty-five minutes after the assassination of President Kennedy, was shot just east of Tenth and Patton in Oak Cliff. Given the changing landscape over the last

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What You Won’t See in the New Film or Read in the Book (Graphic: DKM)By DALE K. MYERS I just finished viewing Oliver Stone’s mind-numbing documentary JFK: Revisited – The Complete Collection (released July 19), which includes nearly ten-hours of material. I also just finished reading James DiEugenio’s 463-page companion book of the film, JFK: Revisited – Through the Looking Glass (released

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Why the mystery surrounding the wallet at the scene won’t go away FBI SA Robert M. Barrett (left) and Capt. W.R. Westbrook (right) at Dallas Police Headquarters on November 22, 1963.  (Tom C. Dillard Collection / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza) By DALE K. MYERS  FBI Special Agent Robert M. “Bob” Barrett has been a hero in JFK conspiracy chat rooms and forums for a good

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The latest crazy talk from JFK Assassination Forums  by DALE K. MYERS Having spent a good portion of the last 47-years investigating every aspect of the murder of Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit, I feel that what I have to say about the case against Oswald for the Tippit murder and the criticism of that case from less-qualified corners comes from a unique perspective.Lately, yet again,

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 By NICHOLAS R. NALLI, Ph.D.  Antiscience is the rejection of mainstream scientific views and methods or their replacement with unproven or deliberately misleading theories, often for nefarious and political gains. It targets prominent scientists and attempts to discredit them. — Peter J. Hotez (Scientific American, 29 March 2021) Readers of Dale Myers’ blog Secrets of a Homicide

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The Real New Document Release  Researcher at the Mexico City Archives (Photos: AFP)   By GUS RUSSO  Long ago, I came to the conclusion that the most important unanswered questions in the JFK case revolve around Lee Harvey Oswald’s September 1963 excursion to Mexico City, seven weeks before he killed the President. The most important of those questions concern the

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58-Years After the Murder of Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit  An 'X' on Tenth Street. (Video frame: Dave Ledbetter)   By DALE K. MYERS  It’s hard to believe that fifty-eight years have passed since the murder of Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit – who was gunned down on an Oak Cliff side street forty-five minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The

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by DALE K. MYERS  [UPDATED VIDEOS: Originally posted April 7, 2008]  After nine months, entomologist and part-time conspiracy theorist Donald B. Thomas has finally weighed in on my 2007 research paper, “Epipolar Geometric Analysis of Amateur Films Related to Acoustics Evidence in the John F. Kennedy Assassination.”  That study proved beyond all doubt that neither H.B.

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Sister of Dallas police Officer J.D. Tippit By DALE K. MYERS  The sister of Dallas police Officer J.D. Tippit is dead at 88.  Joyce Floranze DeBord, spent a lifetime keeping the memory of her dear, departed brother alive for future generations. She passed away at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon.  She was born in the Jakes

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and the Futile Search for Signal in Noise  Josiah Thompson and his latest book. (Graphic: © 2021 Dale K. Myers. All Rights Reserved)  By NICHOLAS R. NALLI, Ph.D.  Last Second in DallasJosiah ThompsonUniversity Press of Kansas. 504 pp., $29.95Last Second in Dallas (ku.edu)   [EDITOR'S NOTE: Click HERE to download a (1.08 MB) ZIP file containing a PDF version of

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Marie F. Tippit thanks a nation for its generosity in December, 1963; flanked by (left to right) Dallas Police Public Relations Officer Glen D. King and Dallas Police Chief Jesse E. Curry. (Houston Chronicle)  By DALE K. MYERS The Dallas police widow whose plight touched a nation in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is dead at 92. Marie Frances Tippit,

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John Armstrong's fantasy cabal behind the killing in Oak Cliff Reserve Sgt. Kenneth H. Croy (left) and Capt. W.R. Westbrook (right).(Graphic: © 2020 DKM) By DALE K. MYERS A member of the so-called JFK research community once proclaimed, “If we get too bogged down in the details, we’ll wind up proving Oswald killed Kennedy.” Ah, those pesky details. The same could be said for the

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The truth about claims she witnessed the shooting on Tenth Street Doris E. Holan as a young girl. (Graphic: © 2020 Dale K. Myers. All Rights Reserved) By DALE K. MYERS UPDATED: MARCH 10, 2024 [Editor’s Note: The following article is an updated version of the original published on November 19, 2020. Additional information was brought to my attention regarding the Holan family's

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