24-08-2021, 10:50 PM
The Willis article mentioned in the first post illustrates the acute problems that ensue when attempting to make sense out of the welter of witnesses, specifically when devising a well-meaning but futile alternative scenario. Scoggins assumes the role of the person observed by them running in the wake of the killer through the Patton/Jefferson area after grabbing Tippit's gun. It concludes with the observation that "Scoggins chased after the killer three times within the space of a half hour--first by foot, then by cab, then by cop car."
A noble attempt to save suborned faces, but the argument fails on its own terms, mainly because for undisclosed reasons Willis puts the time of Tipping shooting at 1:15. This leaves less than 10 minutes to cover the ground three different ways, first two with Tippit's service revolver, a task for which a half hour would barely suffice.
There is little reason not to accept Markham's 1:06 time. It actually conforms to the objective reality of when a person would be a block away from catching a bus due to arrive at 1:12. Reaching Tenth at 1:15 would probably have been too late to watch it go by on Jefferson.
An effort to retard the time a minute or two is usually based on CE705's DPD radio transcript that shows several unanswered calls attributed to 78 (Tippit) around 1:08. These calls are dubious. They do not appear in either CE1974 or Russ Shearer's transcription at Bill Drenas' website.
http://www.billdrenas.com/articles/dpd01-00.pdf
A noble attempt to save suborned faces, but the argument fails on its own terms, mainly because for undisclosed reasons Willis puts the time of Tipping shooting at 1:15. This leaves less than 10 minutes to cover the ground three different ways, first two with Tippit's service revolver, a task for which a half hour would barely suffice.
There is little reason not to accept Markham's 1:06 time. It actually conforms to the objective reality of when a person would be a block away from catching a bus due to arrive at 1:12. Reaching Tenth at 1:15 would probably have been too late to watch it go by on Jefferson.
An effort to retard the time a minute or two is usually based on CE705's DPD radio transcript that shows several unanswered calls attributed to 78 (Tippit) around 1:08. These calls are dubious. They do not appear in either CE1974 or Russ Shearer's transcription at Bill Drenas' website.
http://www.billdrenas.com/articles/dpd01-00.pdf