LAUREL LAND MEMORIAL PARK

Burial in the Memorial Court of Honor

J.D. Tippit is buried in an area of Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas, originally designated as the "Memorial Court of Honor," a section reserved for those who had given their lives in some special service to the community. Established in 1962, Tippit was the first to be buried in the hallowed plot.

Despite its special designation, few police officers killed in the line of duty were ever buried there. One officer who was, and lies in the plot next to Tippit, was Carl Jackson Cooke, a twenty-one-year-old police officer shot while investigating a burglary call on May 1, 1972. He died the next day.

Burial Site Location Laurel Land Memorial Park is located at 6000 South R.L. Thornton Freeway in Dallas, Texas. The cemetery is at the southeast corner of Interstate 35E / U.S. Highway 77 and Laureland Road, 6.7 miles south of downtown Dallas. J.D. Tippit's grave is along the north fenceline just west of the Marsalis Street entrance gate into the park.

J.D. Tippit's grave (arrow) lies near the fenceline just north of a large tree in the Memorial Court of Honor

View looking southwest from Tippit's grave (left) View looking northwest from Tippit's grave (right)

Aerial photograph showing the burial site of J.D. Tippit at Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas Aerial photograph showing the location of the burial site of J.D. Tippit within Laurel Land Memorial Park

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