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DOWNPATRICK FRIDAY: 500 and counting - Jack Kennedy records milestone winner 2023-10-06

Matthew T. Mangino: The passing of the Matriarch of the families of fallen officers By Matthew T. Mangino One of the few living people with a direct connection to the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy has died. Marie Tippit, the widow of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, who was shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald 45 minutes after Kennedy was assassinated, died on March 5. On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, Tippit made breakfast for her husband. J.D. Tippit would leave early in th...