The Tippit Case in the New Millenium

[David Josephs]

If you see no significance in setting facts straight, why did you put so much effort into your splendid analysis of the Mexico City episode?

Milo.... "If..Then.." statements like the one above begin with one bad mistake... assuming.

I don't know who you are ... you've been lurking since 2016 with only a handful of posts to date... and you feel it important to call me out with a back-handed compliment/insult?

It's obvious you take the case seriously and have a good command of the info.... so I went to your post about Jack Tatum and what do I find? WHY questions... sigh you write:


"There are several problems with this. One is why would the assassin run around the back of the car to administer the last shot point blank?"


So your entire argument is that TATUM conflicts with MARKHAM... a witness Liebeler called "worthless" and that I indeed use to contrast against the Davis sisters.... but I don't really need her either....

Tatum says: "I then saw the officer lying on the street and saw this young white man standing near the front of the squad car. Next this man with a gun in his hand ran toward the back of the squad car, but instead of running away he stepped into the street and shot the police officer as he was lying in the street."

So Milo, other than YOU being incredulous to the concept... what do you have that proves this didn't happen?

As I see it, the testimonies are fully compatible....

Tatum:
I then saw the officer lying on the street and saw this young white man standing near the front of the squad car. Next. this man with a gun in his hand ran toward the back of the squad car, but instead of running away he stepped into the street and shot the police officer who was lying in the street. At that point this young man looked around him and then started to walk away in my direction and as he started to break into a small run in my direction, I sped off in my auto. All I saw him to the intersection and run south on Patton towards Jefferson.


Milo - as Tatum states it, do you see this as 1 or 2 people? #1: this young white man and #2 this man with a gun in his hand... ???

why do I ask?

#1 MARKHAM
"After he shot the policeman he turned around, came back around toward Patton Street. He wasn't he didn't seem to be in a no hurry.

"...he stepped into the street and shot the police officer who was lying in the street. At that point this young man looked around him and then started to walk away in my direction "

Since Helen wasn't really watching anyway... how would she know where he was as he shoots? The shooting stops, she looks and he fools with the gun and looks at her...

I thought he hadn't done anything, and he was fooling with his gun in his hands, and he seen me, and he stops."

And she neither saw nor heard another shot.


the reason the WC lawyers saw MARKHAM as worthless was that she screws up the entire timeline knowing when she goes to work and which bus she catches... maybe she wasn't all that worthless?


Mrs. MARKHAM. I put my hands over my face and closed my eyes, because I knew he was going to kill me. I couldn't scream, I couldn't holler. I froze.
Mr. DULLES. I think you testified about that then he began to run slowly.
Mrs. MARKHAM. Then-
Mr. DULLES. Was that after he saw you?
Mrs. MARKHAM. Yes; after I put my hands up, and when I had opened my fingers and my eyes and slowly pulled them down, he was trotting off.

started to walk away in my direction and as he started to break into a small run in my direction

Since this is back EAST one assumes the man goes back around the car and turns back WEST towards PATTON...

But this matches to what MARKHAM says Milo....

Mrs. MARKHAM. He ran back, turned and came back down 10th to Patton Street. He cut across Patton Street like this.
Mr. BELIN. Heading toward what street?
Mrs. MARKHAM. Toward Jefferson; yes, sir. Then he was still in sight when I began to scream and holler and run to this police car, well, to Mr. Tippit.

I sped off in my auto. All I saw him to the intersection and run south on Patton towards Jefferson


So help me out here Milo.... where's the contradiction? and btw, there were 4 shots... 2 entered his torso, one entered his head and one more was stopped by a button...

At a 90 degree angle it says
"Superficial injury
missle not
in body"








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