

Tippit’s widow, Marie, will speak, as will Dallas police chief David Brown.


Tippit, who was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald 50 years ago today in Oak Cliff at the intersection of 10th and Patton streets. Update, 4:34 p.m.: At 6 p.m., the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Police Association will hold a vigil at the Dallas Police Association building, 1412 Griffin St. Chavez reports that the Dallas County Sheriff's Department hasn't made any arrests today related to the JFK commemoration in downtown Dallas. Update, 5:02 p.m.: is airing its 1963 live assassination coverage as it happened. “It kind of reminds me of those speeches that were given that electrified a nation back then and everybody seems to forget about those things today," she said. Kathleen Dunphy said she liked hearing from historian David McCullough, one of the speakers. Anybody who’s 60 years or older, it’s the 9-11 of our era.” “It just brought back a lot of memories and a lot of things going back 50 years to the day," Michael Dunphy told KERA's Stella M. Kathleen Dunphy was in high school when Kennedy was assassinated her husband was a freshman in college.

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