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If you've ever traveled through Oklahoma and Texas, you've probably seen the billboards touting Robertson's ham sandwiches and smoked meats. Robertson's has been in business since 1946, when V.B. "Tup" Robertson opened his first store in downtown Marietta, Oklahoma. This geocache was a fun one, found inside an old fire hydrant. 🐖

In Thackerville, Oklahoma at the WinStar World Casino. It is the largest casino in the United States in floor space. WinStar has over 8,600 electronic games, a 55-table poker room, 100 total table games including craps and roulette, Racer's off-track betting, and multiple high limit rooms. The outside is different exteriors of World sites. This picture is of Big Ben in London, England. 🎰

Memorial dedicated to the 103rd Infantry Division of World War II located at the Texas travel and information
center on I-35 in Gainesville, Texas. 🇺🇸

JFK GeoTour
#11 Texas Theatre
231 Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, TX 75208

Leaving the scene of the crime after shorting Officer Tippit, Oswald walked briskly towards West Jefferson Boulevard. On W. Jefferson, he heard the wail of police sirens and ducked into the entry alcove of Hardy’s shoe store pretending to look at the window display of sneakers. This allowed him to turn his back to the street and get off the sidewalk to try and avoid detection. The police sirens traveled westward on W. Jefferson and abruptly turned back eastward on Zang, less than a block before reaching Oswald’s location at 213 W. Jefferson.

As soon as the police sirens retreated, Oswald returned to the sidewalk and continued westward towards the Texas Theater. His secretive behavior triggered the suspicion of the 18-year-old shoe store manager, Johnny Calvin Brewer. Brewer followed him heading west down the sidewalk and into the theater. Before entering the theater, he had the ticket girl call the police to notify them of this suspicious fellow. Upon entering the theater, Brewer got the concession man to cover the front exit while he went to the back exit. He could see that no one had recently left the theater through the rear exit, but with the lights down low for the movie, he could not find the man he was looking for in the crowd. When Brewer started to open the back door, he was greeted by an anxious police presence. He quickly explained the situation to the officers and they entered through the back of the theater and raised the house lights.

With the lights up, Brewer quickly pointed out Oswald near the back row, and the police quickly advanced toward him. Oswald responded by sucker-punching the first officer to reach him, then Oswald drew his handgun that he had just used to kill Officer Tippit. The gun was wrestled out of his hand and a fight ensued as the officers handcuffed him and marched him out the front of the theater. Brewer, along with several officers and a few members of the press were present in the theater to witness his apprehension. Oswald was arrested for the murder of Officer Tippit, but the connection could not initially be made to President Kennedy. The connection was soon made and charges for the Kennedy assassination were filed later that night.

Oswald was taken into police department custody in a holding cell in the Municipal Building at the corner of Main, Harwood, and Commerce Streets. At 2:25 that afternoon, Oswald was interrogated in the Office of Police Captain Will Fritz.

JFK GeoTour
#10 Officer Tippit Murder site
402 E 10th St, Dallas, TX 75203

On November 22, 1963, Officer JD Tippit was working beat number 78, his normal patrol area in south Oak Cliff, a residential area of the city. At 12:45 p.m., 15 minutes after the assassination of President Kennedy, Officer Tippit received a radio order to move to the central Oak Cliff area as part of a concentration of police around the center of the city. At 12:54, Officer Tippit radioed that he had moved as directed. By then, several messages had been broadcast describing a suspect in the assassination as a slender white male, about 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighing about 165 pounds.

At approximately 1:13 p.m., Officer Tippit was driving slowly eastward on East 10th Street when, about 100 feet past the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue, he pulled alongside Lee Harvey Oswald, who was walking in the same direction. Oswald, who resembled the broadcast description, walked over to the car and apparently exchanged words with Officer Tippit through the open vent window. Officer Tippit opened the door on the left side and started to walk around the front of his car. As Officer Tippit reached the front wheel on the driver's side, Oswald drew a revolver and fired several shots in rapid succession, hitting Officer Tippit three times in the chest. Oswald then walked up to Officer Tippit's fallen body and shot him directly in the head, killing him instantly. DPD squad car #10 was found on the street between 402 and 406 East 10th Street.

The Warren Commission interviewed 12 people who either witnessed the murder or its immediate aftermath. One witness watched Oswald shoot and kill Officer Tippit, then saw him flee the scene with the gun still in his hand. This witness, along with at least three others, picked him out of a lineup that same night. Two other ladies did not see the shooting, but watched Oswald shake the spent cartridges out of his handgun as he fled across their yard. They found two of the cartridges on the ground, which were later matched to the gun in Oswald’s possession when he was arrested minutes later. Both the Warren Commission and the 1979 findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations found that Oswald shot and killed Officer Tippit.

Today, the house at 402 East 10th Street, that was in the background of the crime scene photo, is long gone. In fact, it's been recently rebuilt from the ground up. It took 49 years for the historical marker at Patton & East 10th Streets to finally be erected to recognize that an officer was killed in the line of duty at this location.