J. D. Tippit, American police officer (died 1963)

J. D. Tippit

American police officer (1924–1963)

J. D. Tippit was an American World War II U.S. Army veteran and Bronze Star recipient, who was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department for 11 years. About 45 minutes after the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Tippit was shot and…