10-05-2019, 09:15 PM
To finish up there is Fritz's 12/23/63 report to Curry which omits Benavides entirely, giving him credit for neither discovering spent shells nor witnessing the actual shooting (p.441, items 21 & 22).
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%...38-572.pdf
When Benavides crashes into the void Tatum must follow, unless one is willing to believe a phantom eyewitness' detailed account of an unobserved event accurately described, as if by a prodigy of coincidence, the unwitnessed objective reality. IOW Tatum's tale hangs from Benavides' WC testimony by a single slender thread. Nothing else of a probative nature exists, or imparts credibility to any degree.
A much more likely scenario:
Fourteen years later Tatum was groomed as a better Benavides and fed to Moriarty, who did nothing to ascertain the validity of this discovery, either hiding behind secrecy requirements, or feigning mental fuzziness & an inability to locate his notes. He did not make an attempt to obtain corroboration from Benavides. Berendt had enough sense to bring Benavides & Vaganov together, but to Moriarty Benavides' presence was perfunctory, a rung in Wittgenstein's ladder, thrown away after climbing to the next level of deception.
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%...38-572.pdf
When Benavides crashes into the void Tatum must follow, unless one is willing to believe a phantom eyewitness' detailed account of an unobserved event accurately described, as if by a prodigy of coincidence, the unwitnessed objective reality. IOW Tatum's tale hangs from Benavides' WC testimony by a single slender thread. Nothing else of a probative nature exists, or imparts credibility to any degree.
A much more likely scenario:
- Benavides heard shots while eating lunch at his mother's house.
- The alley to 10th was blocked so he drove around to the murder scene via Denver.
- Proceeding west on 10th his pickup was passed by a red Ford going in the opposite direction (i.e. leaving the scene heading east).
- His arrival at the murder scene was observed by Guinyard.
- Later on 11/22/63 he gave an affidavit to DPD that mentioned the red Ford.
- The FBI deep sixed the red Ford reference by taking immediate control and suppressing the affidavit, eventually repurposing him to replace Bowley.
- He played ball to an extent but kept the red Ford alive in the fabricated context of his WC testimony.
Fourteen years later Tatum was groomed as a better Benavides and fed to Moriarty, who did nothing to ascertain the validity of this discovery, either hiding behind secrecy requirements, or feigning mental fuzziness & an inability to locate his notes. He did not make an attempt to obtain corroboration from Benavides. Berendt had enough sense to bring Benavides & Vaganov together, but to Moriarty Benavides' presence was perfunctory, a rung in Wittgenstein's ladder, thrown away after climbing to the next level of deception.