09-12-2018, 01:02 PM
James Lateer Wrote:That's kind of the drift of the "democracy of theories" put forth by the JFK research community. I don't think that the best writers "alter or suppress" evidence. Not in my opinion after reading of 200 books on the subject.Sticking to the Tippit murder that is the theme of this thread, the basic alteration/suppression device is to allow the myriad of witnesses gathered around the murder scene to operate in isolation chambers, oblivious to the presence of each other.
Two examples. First is Benavides who saw everything Belin wanted him to see & missed everything else happening at the same time, specifically Holan & the second police car. Second is Russell, who actually broke through his isolation chamber to declare he did not recognize the man who grabbed Tippit's gun and commandeered the cab. Impossible if it were Callaway, the man who worked across the street whom he must have seen & followed on Patton Street.
Both anomalies are preposterous, but what author (good or bad) deals with the implications, or even acknowledges them? Benavides is stuffed under his dashboard for varying lengths of time as needed to excuse the things he missed, and Russell is ignored altogether.