12)	Tenth and Patton:

The houses once standing on the corner have been demolished.

The site of the shooting of Officer Tippit.

SAYS DAVE PERRY: There has always been a question about why Tippit was in this area which was five miles from his patrol area. Some of the neighbors had seen him often and thought he lived in the neighborhood. In any case, the married Tippit was a regular visitor in the area, possibly to a married girlfriend. There are too many other people besides Oswald who might have wanted to kill Tippit.

Although Dallas police recorded the official time of Tippit's death as 1:16, witnesses said the fatal shooting took place at 1:07. Time had been lost when two bystanders had tried to call in on the patrol car's radio; one had failed, but the second bystander succeeded. Another eye witness said the time was 1:13, but the Warren Commission decided his watch was slow.

No witness identified Oswald as the assailant. Later, a jacket was found behind Brock's gas station around the corner. It was identified as Oswald's jacket, but laundry tags inside the jacket could never be traced. It was bogus evidence.

SAYS GARY MACK: It is nine-tenths of a mile to Tenth and Patton from Oswald's boarding house. He couldn't have made it there and shot Tippit in that brief time span.

SAYS JIM MARRS: No way could he have gotten to Tenth and Patton in that time frame. Whoever shot Tippit wanted to make sure he was dead—they stood there after they had shot him and shot him again in the head. They unloaded the gun and left shell casings. This is not the behavior of sombody who is shooting to get away—this is an execution.

SAYS GERALD POSNER: One of the horrendous parts of this case was that there was a second victim that everyone forgets. Other policemen were stopping people who fit the description of the assassin. Tippit was on the edge of his patrol area and may have been following Oswald. The autopsy doesn't say that he was shot in the head.

13)	213 W. Jefferson, the Hardy Shoe Store:

After the shooting at Tenth and Patton, Oswald allegedly ducked into this shoe store and was spotted by shoe salesman Johnny Brewer. Brewer then followed Oswald to the Texas Theater and told the ticket taker to call the police.

SAYS GARY MACK: Whoever stopped at Hardy Shoe Store looked unnecessarily distraught.

SAYS JIM MARRS: There are three witnesses who place Oswald inside the Texas Theater at the time Tippit was shot. The concessionaire said he had sold Oswald popcorn at about 1. Johnny Brewer followed somebody who was acting very, very suspicious. That's how the police got drawn to the theater.

SAYS GERALD POSNER: One of the great twists of fate is that Oswald sought shelter here and was spotted.

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