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 U.S. president 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. Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, two days later. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. D. Tippit is the 259th most popular military personnel (up from 1,669th in 2019), the 875th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,553rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, J. D. Tippit ranks 259 out of 2,058. Before him are Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Craterus, Bertrand du Guesclin, Amr ibn al-As, Erhard Milch, and Hugh Dowding. After him are Date Masamune, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Federico da Montefeltro, Eumenes, Pedro de Alvarado, and Louis-Gabriel Suchet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, J. D. Tippit ranks 33. Before him are S. R. Nathan, Billy Wright, Jovanka Broz, Ramiz Alia, Mário Soares, and Kōbō Abe. After him are Sidney Lumet, Ezer Weizman, Benny Hill, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Amílcar Cabral, and Lee Marvin. Among people deceased in 1963, J. D. Tippit ranks 26. Before him are Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Yasujirō Ozu, Józef Gosławski, Nâzım Hikmet, Carmen Amaya, and Abd al-Karim Qasim. After him are Herbert Spencer Gasser, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Jacques Hadamard, Richard Baer, Richard Barthelmess, and Rajendra Prasad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. D. Tippit ranks 875 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902), Richard Dean Anderson (1950), Tim Robbins (1958), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Bill Murray (1950), and Jill Biden (1951). After him are Robert Kardashian (1944), Richard F. Heck (1931), Charles Bolden (1946), Paul Simon (1941), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), and Richard Meier (1934).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, J. D. Tippit ranks 14. Before him are Robert Peary (1856), George Armstrong Custer (1839), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), Chester W. Nimitz (1885), William Halsey Jr. (1882), and Benedict Arnold (1741). After him are J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Alvin York (1887), Omar Bradley (1893), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Ernest King (1878), and Paul Tibbets (1915).

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