Did police find a spare uniform hanging in Tippits squad car?
No. This is a myth created by conspiracy theorists who claim that Tippit was supposed to use the “spare uniform” to help spirit Oswald out of the country, enable a fellow conspirator to pose as a policeman, or any one of a number of other suggestions that imply that Tippit was part of the plot to kill Kennedy. Actually, there was no “spare uniform” found in Tippit’s car. What police did find was an Eisenhower-style police jacket hanging from a hook on the right-side, backseat of Tippit’s squad car. The Warren Commission questioned crime lab Sergeant W.E. “Pete” Barnes about it (7H275) because the jacket appears in several crime scene photographs taken by Barnes of Tippit’s car. One conspiracy theorist recently complained that the pictures offered by the Commission were of such poor quality that it was impossible to determine whether the item seen in the photographs was a police jacket, as Barnes testified, or a police uniform (presumably the Commission’s poor offerings were part of the
