MILITARY PERSONNEL

J. D. Tippit

1924 - 1963

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J. D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) was an American World War II U.S. Army veteran and Bronze Star recipient, who was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department for 11 years. About 45 minutes after the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Tippit was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of Tippit and was subsequently charged with killing President Kennedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. D. Tippit has received more than 2,748,963 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). J. D. Tippit is the 1,668th most popular military personnel (down from 1,465th in 2019), the 5,554th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,914th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, J. D. Tippit ranks 1,668 out of 2,058. Before him are Nicanor, Frederick Townsend Ward, Timothy Laurence, Nozu Michitsura, Ian Hamilton, and Maha Bandula. After him are J. Lawton Collins, Mikhail Devyataev, Wisimar, Fidel Dávila Arrondo, Gaston Billotte, and Fritz Julius Kuhn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, J. D. Tippit ranks 272. Before him are Hidemaro Watanabe, Eduardo Paolozzi, Raoul Coutard, John Winter, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and Ed Koch. After him are Sylvia Miles, Sabu Dastagir, Ruth Leuwerik, Jean Bartik, Omero Tognon, and Budge Patty. Among people deceased in 1963, J. D. Tippit ranks 134. Before him are Ugo Cerletti, Lisa Tetzner, Edwin Linkomies, Erich Ollenhauer, Wladimir Aïtoff, and Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed. After him are Sabu Dastagir, Woldemar Hägglund, Melville J. Herskovits, Luo Ronghuan, Dick Powell, and Amelita Galli-Curci.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. D. Tippit ranks 5,554 out of 20,380. Before him are Strom Thurmond (1902), Mark Forest (1933), Mike Wallace (1918), Cesar Chavez (1927), Ida B. Wells (1862), and Glenn Danzig (1955). After him are James Eckhouse (1955), Clyde Cowan (1919), James Crafts (1839), Theodore Roszak (1933), William R. King (1786), and Osceola (1804).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, J. D. Tippit ranks 97. Before him are Charlie Wilson (1933), Eddie Slovik (1920), Christine Jorgensen (1926), Henry Gunther (1895), Henry Halleck (1815), and Frederick Townsend Ward (1831). After him are J. Lawton Collins (1896), Hal Moore (1922), Mickey Marcus (1901), Nelson A. Miles (1839), Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845), and George Pickett (1825).

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