DC -- Candlelight Vigil for Natl Police Week (2008) -- Ceremony:
- Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.
- Description of Pictures: The official program for the evening (not all of which I got on film) was as follows:
- Presentation of the Colors -- United States Park Police
- National Anthem -- Performed by Sergeant Michael Devine, New York City Police Department
- Invocation -- Reverend Kate Braestrup
- Welcoming Remarks -- Craig W. Floyd, Chairman, National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund
- Keynote Address -- The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, Attorney General of the United States
- Musical Tribute -- "I Will Remember You", performed by Lacy Hill Kendrick
- Honoring the Fallen -- Jean Hill, National President, Concerns of Police Survivors (COPS)
- Candlelighting -- "Bring Him Home", performed by Sergeant Michael Devine
- Tribute to America's "Thin Blue Line" -- Produced by Bill Burdette, Steadfast Productions, Inc. with Laser Show Design
- Musical Tribute -- "You Raise Me Up" -- performed by Senior Officer Specialist John Calwile
- Bagpipe Solo -- performed by Office Steve Butterbrodt
- Roll Call of Fallen Heroes
- "Taps" - performed by Lt. Kathleen A, Harasek, United States Park Police
- Retreat of Colors - United States Park Police
Among the participants recognized this time was Marie Tippit. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund sent out an email that included this description:
Widow of Officer J.D. Tippit Makes First Visit to the Memorial
She was the wife of one of the most famous fallen law enforcement officers in U.S. history: Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, who was shot and killed on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. Officer Tippit had heard the broadcast of the shooting of President Kennedy and stopped a suspicious Mr. Oswald less than an hour later. Although that stop resulted in Officer Tippit making the ultimate sacrifice, without him no one can ever be sure if the President's assassin would have been caught so quickly.
Despite her husband's notoriety, Marie Tippit had never visited the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial ... until National Police Week 2008. With the help of Dallas Police officers, Mrs. Tippit and her son, Curtis, visited the Memorial on Monday morning, May 12. With heavy rain falling around them, Mrs. Tippit gazed at her husband's name, tears mixing with a sad smile in an emotional moment for her and her family. NLEOMF Chairman and CEO Craig Floyd presented Mrs. Tippit with a framed picture of her husband and an etching of his name. She also sat on the stage during the 20th Annual Candlelight Vigil and received a standing ovation when introduced.
- Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
- Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.
- Accessing as Spider: The system has identified your IP as being a spider.
IP Address: 3.133.119.66 -- Domain: Amazon Technologies
I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, some system options like merges are being blocked for you.
Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm sure you're thrilled by your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me.
If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.
- Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]
|
[1]
 BLUE_080513_002.JPG
|
[2] BLUE_080513_006.JPG
|
[3] BLUE_080513_020.JPG
|
[4] BLUE_080513_023.JPG
|
[5]
BLUE_080513_028.JPG
|
[6] BLUE_080513_032.JPG
|
[7] BLUE_080513_036.JPG
|
[8] BLUE_080513_044.JPG
|
[9] BLUE_080513_051.JPG
|
[10] BLUE_080513_057.JPG
|
[11] BLUE_080513_077.JPG
|
[12] BLUE_080513_094.JPG
|
[13] BLUE_080513_115.JPG
|
[14] BLUE_080513_122.JPG
|
[15] BLUE_080513_127.JPG
|
[16]
BLUE_080513_133.JPG
|
[17] BLUE_080513_140.JPG
|
[18] BLUE_080513_150.JPG
|
[19]
BLUE_080513_157.JPG
|
[20] BLUE_080513_181.JPG
|
[21] BLUE_080513_185.JPG
|
[22] BLUE_080513_191.JPG
|
[23] BLUE_080513_197.JPG
|
[24] BLUE_080513_207.JPG
|
[25] BLUE_080513_230.JPG
|
[26]
BLUE_080513_251.JPG
|
[27] BLUE_080513_258.JPG
|
[28] BLUE_080513_262.JPG
|
[29] BLUE_080513_285.JPG
|
[30]
BLUE_080513_299.JPG
|
[31] BLUE_080513_305.JPG
|
[32] BLUE_080513_319.JPG
|
[33] BLUE_080513_327.JPG
|
[34] BLUE_080513_375.JPG
|
[35]
BLUE_080513_380.JPG
|
[36] BLUE_080513_383.JPG
|
[37] BLUE_080513_408.JPG
|
[38] BLUE_080513_413.JPG
|
[39] BLUE_080513_418.JPG
|
[40] BLUE_080513_424.JPG
|
[41] BLUE_080513_428.JPG
|
[42] BLUE_080513_430.JPG
|
[43] BLUE_080513_436.JPG
|
[44] BLUE_080513_442.JPG
|
[45] BLUE_080513_448.JPG
|
[46] BLUE_080513_450.JPG
|
[47] BLUE_080513_461.JPG
|
[48] BLUE_080513_467.JPG
|
[49] BLUE_080513_475.JPG
|
[50] BLUE_080513_492.JPG
|
[51] BLUE_080513_499.JPG
|
[52] BLUE_080513_502.JPG
|
[53] BLUE_080513_512.JPG
|
[54] BLUE_080513_513.JPG
|
[55] BLUE_080513_514.JPG
|
[56] BLUE_080513_527.JPG
|
[57] BLUE_080513_533.JPG
|
[58] BLUE_080513_540.JPG
|
[59] BLUE_080513_546.JPG
|
[60] BLUE_080513_551.JPG
|
[61] BLUE_080513_557.JPG
|
[62] BLUE_080513_562.JPG
|
[63] BLUE_080513_563.JPG
|
[64] BLUE_080513_574.JPG
|
[65] BLUE_080513_578.JPG
|
[66] BLUE_080513_610.JPG
|
[67] BLUE_080513_612.JPG
|
[68] BLUE_080513_620.JPG
|
[69]
BLUE_080513_630.JPG
|
[70] BLUE_080513_632.JPG
|
[71] BLUE_080513_664.JPG
|
[72] BLUE_080513_675.JPG
|
[73] BLUE_080513_700.JPG
|
[74] BLUE_080513_702.JPG
|
[75] BLUE_080513_715.JPG
|
[76] BLUE_080513_729.JPG
|
[77] BLUE_080513_733.JPG
|
[78] BLUE_080513_736.JPG
|
[79] BLUE_080513_739.JPG
|
- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- BLUE_080513_002.JPG: The woman in red is Reverend Kate Braestrup
- BLUE_080513_028.JPG: Craig W. Floyd, Chairman, National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund
- BLUE_080513_133.JPG: Marie Tippit is the woman standing in the first row
- BLUE_080513_157.JPG: The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, Attorney General of the United States
- BLUE_080513_251.JPG: Lacy Hill Kendrick
- BLUE_080513_299.JPG: Jean Hill, National President, Concerns of Police Survivors (COPS)
- BLUE_080513_380.JPG: The candle is passed on
- BLUE_080513_630.JPG: Candlelight vigil @ the National Policeman's Memorial
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
- Featured Folk: Some of the people here can also be seen on other pages on this site.
- Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
- Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].
