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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...

/ Marie Tippit, widow of police officer J.D. Tippit who was slain during the search for President John F. Kennedys assassin, is led weeping from Beckley Hills Baptist Church in Dallas after funeral services for her husband on Nov. 25, 1963. Marie Tippit, the widow of the Dallas police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald about 45 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 92. Tippit died Tuesday at a hospital in the East Texas city of Sulphur Springs after b...

Mar 4, 2021 DALLAS (AP) — Marie Tippit, the widow of the Dallas police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald about 45 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 92. Tippit died Tuesday at a hospital in the East Texas city of Sulphur Springs after being diagnosed with pneumonia following a positive test for COVID-19, said her son, Curtis Tippit, 62. He said his mother also suffered from congestive heart failure. Stephen Fagin, curator of the Sixth Floor Museu...

Marie Tippit was one of the last direct links to the JFK assassination.

The 92-year-old widow of the Dallas police officer fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald after he assassinated President John F. Kennedy has died following a COVID-19 infection.