Accounting for the Tippit shooting has indeed been a bit of a headache for the conspiracy hunters, since the relatively direct eyewitness chain from the death of the officer to the Texas Theater and Oswald's arrest has proven difficult to perforate, to the point that inconsistencies in the physical evidence don't seem to matter much.

Attempts to make Tippit a participant in the conspiracy have been less than convincing. And it gets positively bizarre when some seriously suggest that the sinister forces behind the JFK assassination arranged for Tippit's murder by an Oswald look-alike near the movie theater where they knew Oswald would be, and made sure witnesses led the police there, in hopes that responding Dallas officers would be so enraged that they would shoot Oswald during the arrest, neatly disposing of the patsy; that didn't happen, so Jack Ruby had to be Plan B. Umm.... yeah, right.