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Josiah "Tink" Thompson is an American writer, professional private investigator, and former philosophy professor. He wrote Six Seconds in Dallas ; A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination. He also wrote a biography of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1974, and a well-received book about his own, post-academic life as a private detective, Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye in 1988.
Thompson has participated with Errol Morris in films about the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Thompson graduated from Yale University in 1957, gaining an M.A. in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1964. After studies in Denmark, Thompson returned to teach at Haverford College, where he remained until 1976, resigning to commence his career as a private detective. In 1967 he published The Lonely Labyrinth, a study of Kierkegaard's thought, and in 1972, Kierkegaard: A Collection of Critical Essays.
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