Re: Marie Tippit Passed

On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 12:55:20 PM UTC-5, Steve M. Galbraith wrote:
> On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 12:44:49 AM UTC-5, John Corbett wrote: 
> > On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 9:09:41 PM UTC-5, John McAdams wrote: 
> > > 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,.