The Tippit Case in the New Millenium

[Milo Reech]

It's easy to confirm that much is missing from CE 1974 (the FBI transcript) --

If one looks at the transcript carefully, and compares it to the actual recorded radio transmissions, the accuracy and completeness of the FBI's July 1964 transcript comes into serious question.

Of the last 144 actual transmissions on belt 4, only 28 (19%) were transcribed by the FBI. The final transcribed transmission on belt 4 occurred between 11:50 and 11:51, and the first transmission transcribed from belt 5 does not actually occur until 12:06 almost 180 transmissions later. It is therefore impossible to accurately establish whether belt 4 ended at 11:50 or 12:06, with the result that the discrepancy between the FBI and the HSCA start/end times cannot be resolved. To further emphasise the inadequacy of the FBI transcript, analysis of the number of actual transmissions and the number of transcribed entries reveals that only 15% of the transmissions on belt 5 (approximately 100 out of 600 transmissions) were transcribed.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/scally.htm

No way to proceed with this line of inquiry without audio files, still looking without success despite the proliferation of copies described in the article.

What can be determined is that four DPD officers were already there or soon to arrive when Tippit & Nelson were ordered to "move into Central Oak Cliff area" at 12:45.

1. William Mentzel (out to lunch)
   
2. Harry Olsen (on leave)
   
3. W. P. Parker ("East Jefferson" 12:41)
   
4. J.M. Lewis ("105 Corinth" 12:47)
   

See Duke Lane's comment at the Ed forum for more on this:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/...ent=169183