Tippit shots

[Jsnow915]

Another thought(lucky you)....I was looking at Tippits morgue photo...I wondered if a "Professional" hit man got him...why would he shoot him 3 times(from what I can see) in the torso and once in the temple?...its obvious that the torso shots must have been first...then the temple once he was down...any thoughts?

[Bob]

If Gary Marlow was the gunman, and we know he was close to Files, it would makes sense that he had similar experiences, both in the CIA AND MOB. Perhaps the torso shots didn't kill Tippit right away. Therefore, the head shot. Plus, Tippit may have been involved in this whole scenario as well. Tippit did have the Chicago history as well, along with others like Sam Giancana, Chuck Nicoletti, Johnny Roselli, Jimmy Files, Richard Cain, Roscoe White and Jack Ruby.

[Pasquale DiFabrizio]

Jsnow915 wrote:Another thought(lucky you)....I was looking at Tippits morgue photo...I wondered if a "Professional" hit man got him...why would he shoot him 3 times(from what I can see) in the torso and once in the temple?...its obvious that the torso shots must have been first...then the temple once he was down...any thoughts?I'd have to go along with that one, Jsnow. It's typical killing style with a handgun. They would shoot for "center mass" to get the target down, then finish the job or make sure the job was done with a head shot or two. Completely typical. The fact that he was shot in such a fashion indicates a professional, unless, of course, the shot to the head was just a lucky shot.

[MikeNarrett]

Pasquale DiFabrizio wrote:Jsnow915 wrote:Another thought(lucky you)....I was looking at Tippits morgue photo...I wondered if a "Professional" hit man got him...why would he shoot him 3 times(from what I can see) in the torso and once in the temple?...its obvious that the torso shots must have been first...then the temple once he was down...any thoughts?I'd have to go along with that one, Jsnow. It's typical killing style with a handgun. They would shoot for "center mass" to get the target down, then finish the job or make sure the job was done with a head shot or two. Completely typical. The fact that he was shot in such a fashion indicates a professional, unless, of course, the shot to the head was just a lucky shot.Then again wouldn't that be the most logical way to shoot somebody if you want to make sure to kill them? Doesn't take an expert to realize "Hey, if I want to finish the job off I should shoot him in the head."

[Bob]

The other part about this Tippit shooting scenario is that at least one witness saw two men near Tippit at the time of the shooting. I believe the witness said that one was younger and taller (Marlow?) and the other was shorter and a bit portly (Ruby?). Also, remember the morning when Files drove Roselli to the restaurant where Roselli met Ruby. I really believe there were three strong connections to the assassination. One was the LCAP connection. Oswald, David Ferrie, Charles Rogers, Barry Seal and John Ligget were all alumni of the LCAP. The guy who founded the LCAP was D.H. Byrd, who was very close friends was LBJ, and also was in the Dallas Petroleum Club with David Atlee Phillips, George DeMohrenshildt and Poppy Bu$h. Oh, by the way, Byrd also owned the TSBD on 11/22/1963. The second connection was the Group 40 connection. Let's let Jimmy Files talk about that shall we...Jim Marrs : During that time, during the time of the Bay of Pigs, while you were training and moving around in the Caribbean, No Name Key and all that, did you ever hear the name George Herbert Walker Bush? James Files: Oh Yeah! Jim Marrs: What was his role? James Files: George Herbert Walker Bush. I don't know if, I think a lot of people are not going to believe this, but he worked for the CIA back as early as 1961 that I know of. Jim Marrs : How did he work? What did he do? James Files : I don't know all he did, but he did a lot of recruiting work. I know he was there at the beginning for what we called Group 40, a special operations group, Group 40. If you wonder what Group 40 was, an assassination group. Operation 40 was a top secret CIA project to train selected cuban exiles in guerrilla warfare and assassinations, aimed against the Castro regime. Apart from Felix Rodriguez, other members were now infamous CIA agents and Anti Castro terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch, Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampoll and later Watergate plumbers Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez and E. Howard Hunt. Most of the operation 40 members were recruited from JM/Wave, a much larger clandestine operation to train a cuban exile army for the Bay of Pigs invasion. JM/Wave is headed by CIA official Theodore Shackley. James Files, the confessed gunman on the grassy knoll, was recruited for the CIA by David Atlee Phillips on a recommendation of Ted Shackley. Shackley becomes George Bush's deputy director for Covert Operations in 1976. The CIA controller of JFK's assassin is provably close to Shackley, Shackley is provably close to Bush. Not significant? The third connection has to do with all the participants that had ties to the city of Chicago. As I said earlier, there appears to be several people with ties to the Windy City. Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, Chuck Nicoletti, Jimmy Files, Richard Cain, Roscoe White, Gary Marlow, Jack Ruby AND J.D. Tippit.