Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is episode 296 and it's the third of

three episodes in our mini series covering the wallet and it's also episode nine in the tipp murder series. Well, today we finish things up when you

hear the last little bit about the wallet. And it'll be up to you as jurors as you hear the rest of

the evidence here in the Tippett case as to whether this wallet was planted or whether it's a

legitimate piece of evidence dropped by the assailant at the scene of the murder.

And of course, how you conclude on that topic may very well drive a lot of your skepticism

about other things in the case.

So, without further ado, let's listen to the rest of episode 296 of JFK, The Enduring Secret.

For years, Barrett remained silent officially, his testimony, a blank slate on the wallet

controversy, but when he finally spoke to Weisberg and investigators in 1978, he was consistent

and his credibility as a career FBI agent made his account impossible to dismiss outright.

Unlike the shifting, self-aggrandizing story of Kenneth Croy, Barrett's recollection was detailed and it was professional.

It raised a terrifying question.

If an FBI agent's eyewitness account of a crucial piece of evidence could be completely

erased from the official record, what else was hidden? There is no doubt that a series of

suspicious elements is unfolding right here in the middle of the Tippett murder investigation.

It feels to me that bad things are beginning to reveal themselves.

And for the first time, they are beginning to point to specific Dallas police officers.

And nowhere in the Kennedy assassination is this more evident than in the Tippett case.

And the wallet begins to bring attention to Sergeant

Croix and now particularly to Captain William Westbrook. He'll too, actually,

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