just a short while ago was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. j.d. tippit, a good experienced police officer 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 man who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. police suddenly jumped this man and started to drag him out of the theater. hustled him out to the car. as the crowd started to maul the police officers and grabbed this man trying to run with him. they shouted murder and the officers hustled him into the car and ran away just as fast as they could. as we mentioned a short while ago, a number of arrests have been made in dallas in the wake of president kennedy s death. we have scenes of one of those arrests in the downtown area. this was just after a dallas policeman was shot in the vicinity of a downtown
been questioned. that s lee oswald. the president is shot and a police officer is shot, then someone named lee harvey oswald is arrested. oswald may be a suspect in the assassination. who is he? lee oswald of dallas, a former marine who spent some time in russia who at one time had applied for soviet citizenship. the description that we have of the suspect that we had in oak cliff was similar to the description we had and the man we were looking for as the assassin, but at that time we had not been able to connect the two in any way. down there in this third floor cord doer, a crowd of cameramen, reporters wait for a possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a dallas police officer. there will be a great deal of confusion, mr. oswald is put through the door. i don t know if you saw him.
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 oswald, the alleged murderer of president kennedy. the pathetic group of mourners included oswald s mother marguerite his wife marina his brother robert and oswald s two children one of them a babe in arms. the six pallbearers you see here are newsmen. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pallbearers.
j.d. tippit, a good experienced police officer 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 man who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. police suddenly jumped this man and started to drag him out of the theater. grabbed this man trying to run with him. they shouted murder and the officers hustled him into the car and ran away just as fast as they could. as we mentioned a short while ago, a number of arrests have been made in dallas in the wake of president kennedy s death. we have scenes of one of those arrests in the downtown area. this was just after a dallas policeman was shot in the vicinity of a downtown movie house.
the president is shot and a police officer is shot, then someone named lee harvey oswald is arrested. oswald may be a suspect in the assassination. who is he? lee oswald of a dallas, a former marine that spent some time in russia and applied for soviet citizenship. the description that we have of the suspect in oak cliff is similar to the description we had on the man we were looking for as the assassin but at that time we had not been able to connect the two in any way. down there a crowd of camera men, reporters wait for a possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a dallas police officer. there will be a great deal of confusion, mr. oswald is put through the door. i don t know if you saw him. oswald lives at 1026 meckley.