18-08-2021, 08:56 PM
As if the journey of Tippit's service revolver needed further complication, ambulance driver Butler claimed in an HSCA interview that he handled it upon arrival at the scene:
After parking the ambulance in front of the squad car, I went to the back of the ambulance where I noticed a pistol lying in the street by the left front tire of the squad car. I picked up the pistol and placed it on the hood and/or fender of the squad car.
Keep in mind this is taken from a Moriarty interview, and his work is if anything less reliable than the potpourri of DPD/SS/FBI/WC statements & reports that preceded it by 13 or 14 years.
The interesting question is why did the jump edit indicated by Markham's "about five or ten minutes" culminate in a game of silly buggers involving Tippit's gun?
What is more surprising is how Ball's line of questioning led to Markham's confirmation of Guinyard's eventual testimony that Benavides arrived in his truck after the shooting (7H398). Even sharp legal talent is susceptible to getting lost in a script when the complications mount up and overlay each other.
After parking the ambulance in front of the squad car, I went to the back of the ambulance where I noticed a pistol lying in the street by the left front tire of the squad car. I picked up the pistol and placed it on the hood and/or fender of the squad car.
Keep in mind this is taken from a Moriarty interview, and his work is if anything less reliable than the potpourri of DPD/SS/FBI/WC statements & reports that preceded it by 13 or 14 years.
The interesting question is why did the jump edit indicated by Markham's "about five or ten minutes" culminate in a game of silly buggers involving Tippit's gun?
What is more surprising is how Ball's line of questioning led to Markham's confirmation of Guinyard's eventual testimony that Benavides arrived in his truck after the shooting (7H398). Even sharp legal talent is susceptible to getting lost in a script when the complications mount up and overlay each other.