National remorse over the Kennedy assassination helped to make Mrs. J. D. Tippit the best cared-for policeman's widow in U.S. history. After the President's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot Patrolman Tippit in Dallas, Mrs. Tippit received $650,000 from 40,000 donors across the nation.* Last year 88 other U.S. policemen were killed in the line of duty. What of their widows and children?
Until recently, most Americans merely read about the murders of policemen and felt sorry. Now there is a growing movement called the "Hundred Clubs" for expressing the citizen's condolences and...
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