Episode 309 The Tippit Murder Part 21 Tippit Knew Ruby, and Oswald Likely Knew Them Both

Episode 309 is the twenty-first episode of our mini-series on the Tippit murder. David Belin, the celebrated Warren Commission attorney called it the "Rosetta Stone" of the JFK assassination. It may very well be just that...but for other reasons! In this twenty-first episode, we bring to you an interview conducted by Dallas JFK researcher Michael Brownlow and Professor William Pulte. Their conversation with an witness whose fear required their identity to remain anonymous but who was a waitress at Austin's BBQ and who worked there in the period leading up to, and after, the assassination of President Kennedy. She knew J.D. Tippit personally and witnessed him at Austin's BBQ with Jack Ruby. She witnesses Ruby and Tippit having coffee together. And she saw all three of these men together at the restaurant. Ruby, Tippit and Oswald...together. She saw enough to easily assume that they were friends. We hear it locally from a first hand witness and we close the show out with remarks from a veteran researcher Joan Mellen who interviewed more witnesses than almost anyone. And Joan, rest her soul, reminds us that the broader record of witnesses confirms that these men knew each other.

 Yes…there is a grave possibility that the true "Rosetta Stone" of November 22nd, 1963, might just lie in the quiet Dallas suburb of Oak Cliff, waiting for us to finally put the pieces together. This is a wander I’ve created especially for you…and of all the wanders you have taken with me, this Tippit series may be the most thrilling of all! As we wind down the Tippit series, I hope that you will enjoy these last few episodes of what is one of the most riveting aspects of the JFK assassination story.