With Malice

The definitive work on the murder of Dallas patrolman J. D. Tippitkilled forty-five minutes after President Kennedyand its far-reaching implications for the JFK assassination and aftermathAlthough considered the Rosetta stone of the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, the murder of Dallas police officer J. D. Tippitkilled less than an hour after the assassination of President Kennedyhas proven to be one of the most misunderstood, largely ignored, and often twisted aspects of the Kennedy assassination. For five decades, a community of doubters has contorted official accounts of the shooting to exonerate Oswald. There have been many questions raised about Tippit's death over the past fifty years, but few real attempts to find the answers.Did Oswald murder Tippit? Was Tippit a part of the plot to murder President Kennedy? What really happened on Tenth Street?In With Malice, Dale K. Myers brings thirty-five years of research to this second-by-second account of the murder of Officer Tippit and the frantic manhunt that ended in the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald. Filling a major void in Kennedy assassination literature, it weaves firsthand accounts, newly released documents, and previously unpublished photographs into a detailed tapestry of facts that lifts the veil on the mystery surrounding this pivotal moment in American history.