Tippit Murder Shell Casings
Another bit of interesting information I found in my research has to do with the shell casings found at the Tippit murder scene. Four casings were found at the scene and given to police by a witness in an empty cigarette packet. They were of mixed brand (2 Winchester and 2 Remingtons). However, the bullets recovered from Tippit’s body were a different ratio—3 Winchesters and 1 Remington. This means that five shots had to have been fired: two Remingtons (one a miss), and three Winchesters.
The apparent discrepancy is answered by some witness statements that said as many as five or six shots were fired. One of the shots might have been a miss, but what of the missing shell casing? I've already pointed out how the acoustics of Dealey Plaza could make witnesses believe that more than three shots were fired, but in this case, I believe that the witnesses were correct when they heard five shots fired.
An explanation can be found on the following website, which quotes from the Dale Myers’ 1998 book With Malice:
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/06/murder-of-jd-tippit-part-2.html
"In 1996, eyewitness Barbara J. Davis mentioned that she found a shell like those she and Virginia [Davis] recovered the day of the [Tippit] murder among the possessions of her father-in-law, Louis Davis.
'He was staying with Virginia at the time of the shooting,' Barbara remembered. 'A short time after the murder, he mentioned to my husband that he had found a shell. But, he never showed it to me and I didn't pay too much attention, because he was kind of a peddler, a junk man, you know.'
Virginia Davis confirmed the story, adding that the elder Davis had found the shell the day of the shooting, but wanted to hang on to it for a 'keepsake'."
It is another example of a seeming inconsistency that in fact isn’t an inconsistency at all. Again, it isn’t directly related to the Donahue theory, but it does support that Oswald was "the lone nut" who was intent on assassinating Kennedy.
Another bit of interesting information I found in my research has to do with the shell casings found at the Tippit murder scene. Four casings were found at the scene and given to police by a witness in an empty cigarette packet. They were of mixed brand (2 Winchester and 2 Remingtons). However, the bullets recovered from Tippit’s body were a different ratio—3 Winchesters and 1 Remington. This means that five shots had to have been fired: two Remingtons (one a miss), and three Winchesters.
The apparent discrepancy is answered by some witness statements that said as many as five or six shots were fired. One of the shots might have been a miss, but what of the missing shell casing? I've already pointed out how the acoustics of Dealey Plaza could make witnesses believe that more than three shots were fired, but in this case, I believe that the witnesses were correct when they heard five shots fired.
An explanation can be found on the following website, which quotes from the Dale Myers’ 1998 book With Malice:
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/06/murder-of-jd-tippit-part-2.html
"In 1996, eyewitness Barbara J. Davis mentioned that she found a shell like those she and Virginia [Davis] recovered the day of the [Tippit] murder among the possessions of her father-in-law, Louis Davis.
'He was staying with Virginia at the time of the shooting,' Barbara remembered. 'A short time after the murder, he mentioned to my husband that he had found a shell. But, he never showed it to me and I didn't pay too much attention, because he was kind of a peddler, a junk man, you know.'
Virginia Davis confirmed the story, adding that the elder Davis had found the shell the day of the shooting, but wanted to hang on to it for a 'keepsake'."
It is another example of a seeming inconsistency that in fact isn’t an inconsistency at all. Again, it isn’t directly related to the Donahue theory, but it does support that Oswald was "the lone nut" who was intent on assassinating Kennedy.