Marie Tippit

Shortly after the President of the United States was assassinated, Officer J.D. Tippit was in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas patrolling the neighbourhood. It was here that he met his fate, thus making his wife a widow.

Probably the least known of the widows associated with the events in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Texan-born, mother-of-three, Marie, married two more times, was widowed once more (to Harry Dean Thomas) and divorced from husband number three (Carl Flinner). And with each new marriage, her surname changed to match her new husband’s. However, unlike some widows, who decide to ‘cut and run’ to start a new life far away from where the tragedy happened, Marie stayed put in the Dallas area. How much the impact her first husband’s unexpected death had on Marie’s future can only be conveyed by Marie herself. I explore this and many of the other details of her life in my forthcoming book: Three Widows in Three Days.