My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Joseph McBride]

I've only heard of McBride as a film historian. Good to hear someone else is focused on the Tippit murder.

The late Larry Ray Harris (who died in a mysterious car crash in 1996) was supposed to be the expert on the subject. He lived in Dallas, and even took jobs at the TSBD and as a letter carrier in Oak Cliff to help his research.

Jack White posted this on the EF: "My friend and great researcher Larry Ray Harris has been dead since 1996, and his research was by no means complete. In fact the whereabouts of his extensive files is not known ever since the one-car accident which killed him (reports are that his most serious injury was a broken leg)."

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg ...tem 02.pdf

Larry Ray Harris was indeed a major researcher on Tippit. I conducted a lengthy interview with him in 1992. He generously shared his findings and insights with me. He said he had wanted to do a book on Tippit, called THE OTHER MURDER, but couldn't solve enough questions to his satisfaction. He turned up a lot of fresh evidence. He was a fine man and a diligent researcher whose work was an inspiration, and I was very sad over his untimely death. We all owe him a great debt.

I also was given generous assistance by another major Tippit researcher, Greg Lowrey, who has done extensive research on the case and turned up many leads that he also shared for me to follow in my own dogged research over many years. His associate Bill Pulte gave me valuable help as well. And so did Jack White, Penn Jones, Gary Shaw, and others in Texas who have done important work. They helped me as I made my way through the labyrinth of evidence and "so-called evidence" in this case; the case is so complex that it took me three decades to put together my findings. We should all help each other, as these people did with me. That's how understanding of the case advances. I would also mention a researcher I haven't met but whose work on Tippit I admire, Gary Murr, who wrote the groundbreaking 1971 monograph THE MURDER OF DALLAS POLICE OFFICER J. D. TIPPIT. Dale Myers's book on Tippit is the Warren Report of this murder, and though it is devoted to covering up and obfuscating what happened, he did provide useful research leads, as the Warren Commission did in its twenty-six volumes.