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Metropolitan
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Tuesday, August 21, 1990
> 1990, The Dallas Morning News
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Alleged assassin's peers dubious
By David Real
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
Roscoe Anthony "Rock" White was an
easygoing, mild-mannered Dallas police of-
ficer who liked to play dominoes on his
lunch break.
Or he was a coldblooded CIA assassin
who killed his president and a brother pa-
trolman on Nov. 22,1963.
Two weeks ago, Mr. White's son, Ricky
Don White of Midland, said that his father
was both.
Man's story of dad questioned
But few of those who knew Mr. White
seem to agree.
His contemporaries find it almost impos-
sible to believe that the man who worked
an extra job unloading freight to make
ends meet for his family would be capable
of killing both President John F. Kennedy
and Dallas Police Department Patrolman
J.D. Tippit.
And some members of the group that
stood behind Ricky White two weeks ago
during a news conference at the JFK Assas-
sination Information Center in downtown
Dallas now offer competing theories that
contradict or conflict with Ricky White's
account.
Investigators and volunteers are hard at
work trying to verify Ricky White's ac-
count. Although the theory was received
with skepticism in some quarters, Texas At-
torney General Jim Mattox and representa-
tives of the Dallas County district attor-
ney's office each met with some of the the-
ory's proponents last week.
All that is known with certainty is that
Roscoe White was born in Paris, Texas, on
Nov. 18, 1935. He joined the Marine Corps
on Feb. 19, 1957, and was honorably dis-
charged as a sergeant on Dec. 4,1962.
On Oct. 7, 1963, he started working for
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