why did Tippit have to die?

[Brian Castle]

The Tippit murder is just as frustrating as the JFK murder.
Brian, have you heard of Stuart Reed, who just happened to be outside the Texas Theater taking photos, after earlier taking photos of the "Oswald Bus" on Elm Street?

Hi Tracy - yeah, interesting fellow. Executive Director of the Panama Canal Zone Civil Service System, 32 years in the Army.

And he just happened to be all those interesting places that day.... ain't that interesting.

Civil Service... has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Sounds almost like.... "Civil Affairs". Hm. Administration of the Canal Zone. Check.

So now, this fellow would probably be in a position to observe petroleum movements through the Canal, would he not?

And as such, the 488th Strategic Intelligence Detachment would have been very interested in him, say around 1958 or 9 or so. Yes?