Marie Tippit Passed

[John McAdams]

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.John
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[John Corbett]

Post by John McAdams
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Mostly I find conspiracy hobbyists to be a harmless lot but the one thing
that gets my chili hot is when some accuse Tippit of being part of the
conspiracy based on nothing more than runaway speculation. They think
nothing of besmirching a police officer slain in the line of duty because
to them it's all a game.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Post by John Corbett

Post by John McAdams
https://www.newser.com/story/303261/one-of-our-last-direct-links-to-jfk-assassination-is-gone.html

Mostly I find conspiracy hobbyists to be a harmless lot but the one thing
that gets my chili hot is when some accuse Tippit of being part of the
conspiracy based on nothing more than runaway speculation. They think
nothing of besmirching a police officer slain in the line of duty because
to them it's all a game.

Tippit, Ruth Paine, Norman, Jarman...it's not a small list. The hobbyists
- not all but the ones who do this - don't seem to care a bit about what
they accuse these people of. It's one thing to say LBJ or Hoover or a
noted figure was involved. For good or bad these figures have to suffer
the "slings and arrows" of life. But who defends these people?

Here we have ordinary Americans caught up in something that overwhelmed
them. They were confused and disoriented and afraid and puzzled. So their
accounts mirror that; contradictory and disjointed. But no, all of this
was part of the script.

I've often cited that statement by Oliver Stone in his defense of
Garrison: "Sometimes in a war you have to sacrifice some people." That is
what I think these conspiracists do (again not all). They are so certain
of their cause that they don't care whether these people get hurt. For
them, well you just have to sacrifice them for the larger battle.

[John Corbett]

Post by Steve M. Galbraith

Post by John Corbett

Post by John McAdams
https://www.newser.com/story/303261/one-of-our-last-direct-links-to-jfk-assassination-is-gone.html

Mostly I find conspiracy hobbyists to be a harmless lot but the one thing
that gets my chili hot is when some accuse Tippit of being part of the
conspiracy based on nothing more than runaway speculation. They think
nothing of besmirching a police officer slain in the line of duty because
to them it's all a game.

Tippit, Ruth Paine, Norman, Jarman...it's not a small list. The hobbyists
- not all but the ones who do this - don't seem to care a bit about what
they accuse these people of. It's one thing to say LBJ or Hoover or a
noted figure was involved. For good or bad these figures have to suffer
the "slings and arrows" of life. But who defends these people?
Here we have ordinary Americans caught up in something that overwhelmed
them. They were confused and disoriented and afraid and puzzled. So their
accounts mirror that; contradictory and disjointed. But no, all of this
was part of the script.
I've often cited that statement by Oliver Stone in his defense of
Garrison: "Sometimes in a war you have to sacrifice some people." That is
what I think these conspiracists do (again not all). They are so certain
of their cause that they don't care whether these people get hurt. For
them, well you just have to sacrifice them for the larger battle.

They don't care one bit about the people they throw under the bus. People
like J.D. Tippit who was just a cop doing his job when he ran across the
wrong guy. They don't care about his widow who no doubt had to listen to
some of the garbage for over 50 years. Others that you mentioned by name
and some whom you did not were just ordinary folks who by chance ended up
in an extraordinary situation and who did their best to tell investigators
what they knew and what they remembered. There's not a scrap of evidence
that any of them had anything to do with the assassination of JFK but that
doesn't stop the conspiracy hobbyists from vilifying them,.