Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello,

Hello, and welcome and welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is episode 295 and of course

it's just a continuation of where we left off in episode 294. We are, of course, back at the

Tippett murder scene and the story of the wallet is unfolding.

This is the Tippett murder series, episode number eight, and the second of three in a mini-series about the wallet.

So, without further ado, let's listen to the rest of episode 295 of JFK, The Enduring Secret.

Witnesses by this time were pointing down the street in the direction of the assailant,

attempting to give some level of description.

What happened next is the central most explosive controversy in the Ken Croy story.

Croy claimed that as soon as he arrived, an unidentified man rushed up to him and thrust a leather billfold into his hand, saying, here's the killer's wallet. He tossed it while running.

Croy said he glanced inside, saw identification, and handed it off to Sergeant Owens moments later.

He never got to witness his name, and he filed no police report that day about anything, let alone this critical piece of evidence, or any of his activities on November 22nd.

It was not the wallet that was extraordinary, but rather what was in it.

The presence of two IDs, one identifying a Lee Harvey Oswald, and a second identification with the name A.J. Heidel on it.

And that's the name that conveniently matches the one used to purchase via mail order,

both the pistol that he allegedly purchased and the Manley Kirk Carcano rifle.

The pistol and the rifle were purchased from different suppliers,

as you might recall. But how tidy to have identification for Oswald, true identity contained in the

same wallet as his alias identification, the alias used to purchase a firearm, used in the criminal act.

All in one wallet so that the two could be tied together. Imagine that. What a tidy piece of

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