29-08-2018, 03:13 PM
It is futile to try to reconcile many versions of Tippit's gun movements & subsequent cab chase episode, primary reason being Scoggins' recalcitrance. He identified neither passenger nor route.
The purported passenger kept changing his lines, eventually putting himself in the driver's seat. The gun had many handlers and took as many routes from Tippit's holster to squad car.
There is reason to doubt them all, supplied by Croy's testimony.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you talk with the taxi driver?
Mr. CROY. Yes; I did. I talked to the taxi driver.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, did you talk with him on the scene of the crime?
Mr. CROY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember what his name was?
Mr. CROY. No; I didn't get his name. There was a private detective agency. There was a report that a cabdriver had picked up Tippit's gun and had left, presumably. They don't know whether he was the one that had shot Tippit, or whether the man, I think it was he, brought someone out there, something. Anyway, he saw it and he picked up Tippit's gun and attempted to give chase or something like that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. There was a detective who was an eyewitness?
Mr. CROY. No; he brought the taxi driver back to the scene.
Mr. GRIFFIN. But the taxicab driver was an eyewitness?
Mr. CROY. As far as I know.
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.
WCXII p202
Croy arrived at the scene before the ambulance left and commenced an interview with Markham while leaning against #10. Much of his WC testimony is inscrutable, such as both talking to and not talking to the cab driver, but he was "on the scene of the crime." No other location makes sense, and there he picked up a report that makes more sense than any & all of the official tales and derivatives. Both Scoggins & Tippit's gun were gone before the ambulance arrived.
The WR had no choice but to compress too much action into five minutes or so, accomplishing little more than restricting it to a group of sanitized role players. Confusion & continuity issues were an inevitable fallout, but nothing to worry about as long as the cast & time frame were kept under wraps. Set the time of the shooting back to when it actually happened (Markham's 1:06 will do) and the burden of event cramming dissolves into thin air, as did Scoggins, his passenger & Tippit's gun before the select characters arrived at the scene of the crime. Subtracting them from the episode removes a mass of noise from the record.
The purported passenger kept changing his lines, eventually putting himself in the driver's seat. The gun had many handlers and took as many routes from Tippit's holster to squad car.
There is reason to doubt them all, supplied by Croy's testimony.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you talk with the taxi driver?
Mr. CROY. Yes; I did. I talked to the taxi driver.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, did you talk with him on the scene of the crime?
Mr. CROY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember what his name was?
Mr. CROY. No; I didn't get his name. There was a private detective agency. There was a report that a cabdriver had picked up Tippit's gun and had left, presumably. They don't know whether he was the one that had shot Tippit, or whether the man, I think it was he, brought someone out there, something. Anyway, he saw it and he picked up Tippit's gun and attempted to give chase or something like that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. There was a detective who was an eyewitness?
Mr. CROY. No; he brought the taxi driver back to the scene.
Mr. GRIFFIN. But the taxicab driver was an eyewitness?
Mr. CROY. As far as I know.
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.
WCXII p202
Croy arrived at the scene before the ambulance left and commenced an interview with Markham while leaning against #10. Much of his WC testimony is inscrutable, such as both talking to and not talking to the cab driver, but he was "on the scene of the crime." No other location makes sense, and there he picked up a report that makes more sense than any & all of the official tales and derivatives. Both Scoggins & Tippit's gun were gone before the ambulance arrived.
The WR had no choice but to compress too much action into five minutes or so, accomplishing little more than restricting it to a group of sanitized role players. Confusion & continuity issues were an inevitable fallout, but nothing to worry about as long as the cast & time frame were kept under wraps. Set the time of the shooting back to when it actually happened (Markham's 1:06 will do) and the burden of event cramming dissolves into thin air, as did Scoggins, his passenger & Tippit's gun before the select characters arrived at the scene of the crime. Subtracting them from the episode removes a mass of noise from the record.