and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. crime lab lieutenant day came out of that building with a british .303 rifle. it was a 7.65 mauser. a high-powered army or japanese rifle of .25 caliber. a .3030 rifle. much of the first things you hear are going to be wrong and to some degree you were constantly trying to separate out what seemed to be a fact. in dallas, a dallas policeman just a short while ago was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. j.d. tippit was shot three times in the chest in the oak cliff section of dallas. then the manager of a shoe store saw the suspect walk into the texas theater. someone has been arrested in one of the downtown theaters. they don t know if it was the
and will malice of forethought kill john f. kennedy by shooting him with a gun end quote following the reading of the complaint, oswald said, that s ridiculous. within hours of the assassination, it was very obvious to virtually everyone in dallas law enforcement that oswald had killed kennedy. chief, can you tell us in summary what directly links oswald to the killing of the president? well, the fact that he was on the floor where the shots were fired from immediately before the shots were fired. the fact he was seen carrying a package to the building, the fact that when was he carrying that package? yesterday morning. yesterday morning in the dilly plaza he was the only one in the book depository that fled the building. 45 minutes later he shoots and kills officer j.d. tippit. half hour later at the texas theater he resisted arrest by
dallas today had even more to mourn. it held funeral services for one of its own who was a victim of friday s tragedy. officer j.d. tippit. it was a funeral of a very different sort today in nearby fort worth. this was the dreary funeral of lee harvey odd wald, alleged murderer of president kennedy. the pathetic group of mourners included oswald s math, marguerite, his wife marina, his brother robert and oswald s two children, one of them a babe in arms. the six pallbearers were news men. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pallbearers. now there is a new flag of the president of the united
kills officer j.d. tippit. by pulling a gun on an officer. during 12 hours of interrogation, the dallas police department over the weekend, he told one provable lie after another. did you buy that rifle? that s the facts you people have been given but i emphatically deny these charges. within a day or so thereafter when they discovered what a complete nut this guy was, they were satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that oswald had acted alone. there s only one thing i can tell you without going into the evidence that this case is cinched, that this man killed the president. there is no question in my mind about it. we plan to transfer this man, not tonight. the van will be here by no later than 10:00 in the morning. why, it will that will be early enough for him. chief, do you have any concern for the safety of your prisoner in due of the high feeling of the people in dallas over the assassination of the president? no, but cautions will be taken, of course. but i don t
dallas today had even more to mourn. it held funeral services for one of its own who was a victim of friday s tragedy. officer j.d. tippit. it was a funeral of a very different sort today in nearby ft. worth. this was the dreary funeral of lee harvey oswald. alleged murderer of president kennedy. the mourners included his mother, his wife, his brother robert, and oswald s two children, one of them, a babe in arms. the six pallbearers are newsmen. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pallbearers. now there is a new flag of