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Old 11-19-2010, 01:36 PM  
Vjo
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47 years ago right now at 1:00 pm CST (3rd Friday of Nov.) Lee Harvey Oswald had already been back to his little rented room and grabbed a 38 Special revolver pistol.

30 minutes ago at 12:30pm CST he had just put the well honed in scope from his 6.5 x 52 mm Italian Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle to the back of the head of the President of the United States and pulled the trigger up to 4 times.



He will leave behind 3 casings. The previous March, the Carcano rifle had been bought by Oswald under the name "A. Hidell" and delivered to a post office box Oswald rented in Dallas.

It is now 12:30pm CST. Kennedy’s limousine enters Dealey Plaza and slowly approaches the Texas School Book Depository.

Nellie Connally, then the First Lady of Texas, turns around to Kennedy, who was sitting behind her and comments, "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you." President Kennedy acknowledges.

The Presidential limousine turns and passes the texas school Book Depository and continues down Elm Street. Suddenly shots are fired at Kennedy. A clear majority of witnesses recall hearing three shots.

All hell breaks loose.

At 1:02 pm (approx) Roy Truly, the supervisor at the Depository, has just talked to Dallas Police to report that LHO was missing from work and within moments an All Points Bulletin was put out for the arrest and detention of Lee Harvey Oswald.



Perhaps minutes, even seconds before their upcoming fateful meeting, Officer Tippit will receive an APB over his classic 1963 Motorola police radio.

It is now 1:05pm, for some reason LHO does not stay in his room but quickly leaves on foot with the pistol. He is now in the Oak Hills section of Dallas and many blocks from Dealey Plaza.



In moments he will be spotted by Officer J.D. Tippit who is on patrol in his Ford patrol car.

It is now approximately 1:11–1:14 pm. Tippit is driving slowly eastward on East 10th Street in Oak Cliff. Suddenly about 100 feet (30 m) past the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue he spots someone fitting the description.

He pulls alongside Lee Harvey Oswald, who is walking in the same direction.

Oswald, who resembles the broadcast description walks over to the car and exchanges words with Tippit through the open vent window. Tippit opens the door on the left side and starts to walk around to the front of his car.



As Tippit reaches the front wheel on the driver's side, Oswald draws a revolver
and fires several shots in rapid succession, hitting Tippit three times in the chest. He then walks up to Tippit's fallen body and shoots him directly in the head, killing him instantly.



Helen Markham witnesses the shooting and sees a man with a gun in his hand leaving the scene. Markham identifies Lee Harvey Oswald as Tippit’s killer in a police lineup she views that evening.

Barbara Jeanette Davis and her sister-in-law Virginia Davis hear the shots and see the killer crossing their lawn and shaking a revolver as if he were emptying it of cartridge cases. Later each woman findsd a cartridge case near the scene and submitts them to police.

On the evening of November 22, Barbara Jeanette Davis and Virginia Davis view a group of four men in a lineup and each one picks Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who crossed their lawn while emptying his pistol.

Oswald will quickly leave and go into the nearby Texas Theatre without buying a ticket.



This immediately draws attention to him from staff in the theatre. Dallas Police now enter the Theatre after being tipped off.



Lead officer M.N. McDonald spots Lee Harvey Oswald in this seat and approachs Oswald.



Oswald resists, attempts shooting the arresting officer with his 38 pistol, and is struck and forcibly restrained.

The Smith & Wesson "Victory" Model .38 Special revolver, serial number V510210, that Oswald has in his hands now eighty minutes after the assassination, is identified by model and serial number as the one purchased by mail order to the same P.O. Box as the rifle, and also by an “A.J. Hidell”, with handwriting that matches Oswald’s.

Oswald is forcibly removed from the Texas Theatre.



Oswald is charged with the murders of officer J.D. Tippit and president John F. Kennedy.

Oswald denys shooting anyone and claims he was a patsy and was arrested because he had lived in the Soviet Union.

Oswald's case will never come to trial because two days later, while being escorted to a car for transfer from Dallas Police Headquarters to the Dallas County Jail, he will be shot and killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby.





In 1969 looking the same as 1963



Facinating, and Oswald's timeline after the shooting is something I always wanted to explore.

Today with help from http://wikipedia.com I made it happen. Obcession.

Present tense prose created and changed by me. Facts and pics from Wiki.

Thanks everyone for voting. Kind of surprising results so far.

Last edited by Vjo; 11-19-2010 at 01:49 PM..
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