08-01-2018, 04:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2018, 06:40 PM by Milo Reech.)
Milking fuzzy Croy's testimony for more than its worth, Myers creates an almighty muddle.
1. Per Croy the detective who was not an eyewitness brought the cabdriver back to the scene:
2. Per With Malice the individual mistaken by Croy for the detective was Callaway:
3. Per With Malice security officers Holmes & Wheless brought both Scoggins & Callaway back to the scene:
4. Holmes Sr. may have recognized Croy but there was no reciprocation. Croy said nothing to WC about Holmes, Wheless, security officers or Callaway. Instead he confirmed that a "detective" brought back the "taxi driver," followed by this exchange:
Based on context Croy received the gun from the taxicab driver not the detective, but even if Croy meant detective nothing warrants subbing in security officer Holmes.
A lenient disposition might ascribe part of this predicament to an incomplete graft of the belated Holmes/Wheless mini-saga onto the WM fairy tale, but this does not expiate the cardinal sin of gross testimony mutilation.
WM also attributes this statement to Callaway, describing the cab's launch to commence the wild ride:
The official WC location of Scoggins' cab (illustrated in WM) was at the SE corner of Tenth & Patton facing north. Per WM the immediate course the cab took was west on Tenth to Crawford. This required a simple left turn. If Scoggins had turned the cab around it would have proceeded south on Patton toward Jefferson, quickly exiting the scene, passing out of sight from the fictive Holmes/Wheless chase vehicle.
In his first day statement this is exactly the route Callaway specifies:
Other early witness statements have Callaway approaching Bowley (DPD 12/2/63) & Russell (FBI 1/22/64) with the gun before Scoggins, asking each to join him in hot pursuit. Benavides was later subbed in for the former to protect WC from Bowley's Ruby ties & watch, but asking Russell to partner him in a chase was either a tactical mistake or indicative of a dubious plan to outsprint the fugitive. Russell did not have a car!
When constructing an alternate reality (AKA cock-and-bull story) to disguise what actually happened the original scriptwriters tended to go overboard with suborned collaboration. This is why, for example, so many eyewitnesses to the flight claimed they saw the fugitive shaking a gun, all the way from Tenth to Jefferson, as if ejecting more spent shells than there were shots.
One might think Myers would whip the competing accounts into some kind of consistency with his plot overlays, but it's no mean feat. Much easier to neutralize contradictions/confutations by consigning them to unresolved footnote acknowledgments, or speciously attributing them to observer error, or ignoring them altogether. Regarding the wild ride, it is impossible that Callaway got the route wrong the day it occurred if he had actually taken part in one.
1. Per Croy the detective who was not an eyewitness brought the cabdriver back to the scene:
Mr. GRIFFIN. There was a detective who was an eyewitness?
Mr. CROY. No; he brought the taxi driver back to the scene.
Mr. CROY. No; he brought the taxi driver back to the scene.
2. Per With Malice the individual mistaken by Croy for the detective was Callaway:
In testimony to the Warren Commission, Officer Croy recalled Callaway, and mentioned his belief that the used car salesman was a "private detective."
3. Per With Malice security officers Holmes & Wheless brought both Scoggins & Callaway back to the scene:
Ted Callaway and William Scoggins arrived back at Tenth and Patton in the company of the two private security officers. Ken Holmes recognized Officer Kenneth Croy and turned Tippit's service revolver over to him.
4. Holmes Sr. may have recognized Croy but there was no reciprocation. Croy said nothing to WC about Holmes, Wheless, security officers or Callaway. Instead he confirmed that a "detective" brought back the "taxi driver," followed by this exchange:
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you talk to the taxicab driver?
Mr. CROY. No; I took Tippit's gun and several other officers came up, and I turned him over to them and they questioned him.
XII p.202
Mr. CROY. No; I took Tippit's gun and several other officers came up, and I turned him over to them and they questioned him.
XII p.202
Based on context Croy received the gun from the taxicab driver not the detective, but even if Croy meant detective nothing warrants subbing in security officer Holmes.
A lenient disposition might ascribe part of this predicament to an incomplete graft of the belated Holmes/Wheless mini-saga onto the WM fairy tale, but this does not expiate the cardinal sin of gross testimony mutilation.
WM also attributes this statement to Callaway, describing the cab's launch to commence the wild ride:
"I didn't think he'd ever get that damn cab turned around," Callaway remarked.
The official WC location of Scoggins' cab (illustrated in WM) was at the SE corner of Tenth & Patton facing north. Per WM the immediate course the cab took was west on Tenth to Crawford. This required a simple left turn. If Scoggins had turned the cab around it would have proceeded south on Patton toward Jefferson, quickly exiting the scene, passing out of sight from the fictive Holmes/Wheless chase vehicle.
In his first day statement this is exactly the route Callaway specifies:
I got the officer's gun and hollered at a cab driver to come on, We might catch the man. We got into his cab, number 213 and drove up Patton to Jefferson and looked all around, but did not see him.
DPD 11/22/63
DPD 11/22/63
Other early witness statements have Callaway approaching Bowley (DPD 12/2/63) & Russell (FBI 1/22/64) with the gun before Scoggins, asking each to join him in hot pursuit. Benavides was later subbed in for the former to protect WC from Bowley's Ruby ties & watch, but asking Russell to partner him in a chase was either a tactical mistake or indicative of a dubious plan to outsprint the fugitive. Russell did not have a car!
When constructing an alternate reality (AKA cock-and-bull story) to disguise what actually happened the original scriptwriters tended to go overboard with suborned collaboration. This is why, for example, so many eyewitnesses to the flight claimed they saw the fugitive shaking a gun, all the way from Tenth to Jefferson, as if ejecting more spent shells than there were shots.
One might think Myers would whip the competing accounts into some kind of consistency with his plot overlays, but it's no mean feat. Much easier to neutralize contradictions/confutations by consigning them to unresolved footnote acknowledgments, or speciously attributing them to observer error, or ignoring them altogether. Regarding the wild ride, it is impossible that Callaway got the route wrong the day it occurred if he had actually taken part in one.