DALLAS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The widow of the last man Lee Harvey Oswald killed marked the 40th anniversary of her husband's death by recalling that tragic day.
For the widow of Dallas police Officer J.D. Tippit, the hardest weeks came just after the killing, the Dallas Morning News reported. Curtis, her youngest child, would sit by the window night after night, wondering when Daddy was coming home.
It was small consolation to a 5-year-old boy that his father was killed doing a job he loved. Or that his death at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald led to the capture of President John F. Kennedy's apparent assassin.
"We lived at the end of the street," says the widow, Marie Flinner, 75, giving her first extensive interview about the twin tragedies of Nov. 22, 1963. "Curtis would sit by the window for hours and watch for his Daddy. And that was really difficult."
The Warren Commission concluded Oswald killed the president in Dealey Plaza and then, 45 minutes later, gunned down Tippit in nearby intersection. It's an intersection she visits often, most recently about a month ago.
"It's such a sadness," she says. "A sadness to know that I wasn't there, and even if I had been, I couldn't have done anything for him anyway. It severed his main artery. Nobody ... could have done anything."
