Is the figure known as “Badge Man” really J.D. Tippit?
No. Mary Moorman, an eyewitness to the assassination of President Kennedy, took a photograph of the president at the moment of the fatal head shot. The background of that Polaroid photograph shows the grassy knoll, where many conspiracy theorists believe a gunman was stationed. Conspiracy theorists Gary Mack and Jack White claimed in the 1988 British television series, The Men Who Killed Kennedy that the Moorman photograph shows a figure wearing a police uniform in the location from which many believe the fatal shot was fired. Mack and White dubbed the figure “Badge Man.” Some theorists have since speculated that the “Badge Man” figure is Tippit. This is nonsense, of course. Tippit’s movements both before and after the shooting are well documented and place Tippit in Oak Cliff, some five miles from the assassination scene. For a complete report on the history of the “Badge Man” figure and a critical analysis of the image itself, click HERE. Any truth to the claim that Tippit shot a bur
