09-10-2018, 03:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2018, 07:44 PM by Milo Reech.)
David Josephs Wrote:I spoke with him these last few days and yes, he has not connected CROY with the Methodist hospital scene...
Something of note... The ambulance driver Clayton mentions a "Plastic bag" with Tippit's gun brought by the white hatted sergeant...
Plastic bags were not a common thing until after 1965... so while he says this in 1975, I have to wonder what Clayton was talking about, and where someone would even get a "plastic bag"
In 1965, Swedish company Celloplast came up with the design on which all modern plastic shopping bags are based: a tube of plastic sealed at the bottom to allow for the packaging of goods, an open top to insert such items into the bag and handles for convenient carrying. This model bag, which later became known as the "T-shirt plastic bag," was made from high-density polyethylene, or No. 2-type plastic the same used to produce plastic bottles and plastic lumber.
Thanks for this info! The case against Moriarty keeps gaining strength, his team's evidence gathering an exercise in creative writing, now consisting of three known pieces of fiction.
1. Fabrication from scratch of Tatum's story.
2. Improved Bowley (injection of "Mexican man" & "a white female wearing a white uniform"), cf. Bowley's DPD statement.
3. Jasper Clayton Butler's anachronism.
Tatum's red Ford is a necessary element of his tale, whether real or imaginary. Why does Armstrong put him into a Fairlane? He put himself into a Galaxie XL 500 according to the 5/13/86 interview. Did someone run a plate check? Perhaps the answer is in Moriarty's notes, but he couldn't find them in 1986.
An irresistible tendency to tinker with narrative details is a sure sign of a tall tale as a work in progress and a failure to recognize that once the tale is made public subsequent edits give away the game. The amusing part is how some theorists extol significant revisions when they support a pet hypothesis and blame those that don't on defective memory.