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Remembering Officer J.D. Tippit
September 18, 2014 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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Around 1:15 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963, duty placed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit near the corner of Tenth and Patton streets in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Forty-five minutes after shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade in Dealey Plaza, Officer Tippit was shot and killed white questioning a subject. The tragic loss of Officer Tippit was overshadowed by the assassination of President Kennedy and the shooting of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald two days later.