24-12-2022, 06:55 PM
Always a pleasure to watch Jim DiEugenio bash the hell out of Dale Myers, as happened recently at the Ed Forum. See "Dale Myers and his World of Illusion."
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic...-illusion/
But it's not a total victory primarily because of falling back on the Jack Myers article that is the subject of this thread, ignoring various shortcomings including the absurdities of the tales told by Pulte & Brownlow, discussed previously.
There are other significant errors. I'll start with an easy one, Helen Markham, well known for the erratic nature of her statements. She's one of the key witnesses and comes in for some rough treatment. Well, why not? The poor woman came under intense pressure from the suborners to finger Oswald as the killer and badgering from just about everybody else, powerless to fend off the former while desperate to keep her wayward son out of jail. Jack Myers is downright unkind to subject her to a scathing criticism, untempered by the tepid apology for her flaky conduct that follows. Instead of dumping on her he should have exerted himself to extract whatever value resides in her various statements.
He is also wrong in item #3 of "the problems with Mrs. Markham's story:"
3. All other witnesses saw the gunman flee west on Jefferson Boulevard. No one else saw the gunman go across an empty lot and disappear down the alley.
Compare:
1. Poe & Jez: "There were approximately six to eight witnesses, all telling officers that the subject was running west in the alley between Tenth and Jefferson Streets."
2. Jimmy Burt: "saw the man running into an alley located between 10th & Jefferson Avenue on Patton Street."
3. Barnes' map: "W on ally to Crawford left on Crawford to E Jefferson 300 bk."
4. Bowley: "He was told by someone on the scene that a man shot the officer and had ran West on 10th Street toward the Church."
5. Clemons: "He went across that lot there, that’s all I know. He went across that lot, I don’t know which way…"
Her importance cannot be overstated, despite the cracks in her story, because she establishes 1:06 (truncating seconds) as the time of Tippit's murder as the circumstantial reality, simply by being at the location where she should have been on her way to catch the 1:12 bus at Jefferson.
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic...-illusion/
But it's not a total victory primarily because of falling back on the Jack Myers article that is the subject of this thread, ignoring various shortcomings including the absurdities of the tales told by Pulte & Brownlow, discussed previously.
There are other significant errors. I'll start with an easy one, Helen Markham, well known for the erratic nature of her statements. She's one of the key witnesses and comes in for some rough treatment. Well, why not? The poor woman came under intense pressure from the suborners to finger Oswald as the killer and badgering from just about everybody else, powerless to fend off the former while desperate to keep her wayward son out of jail. Jack Myers is downright unkind to subject her to a scathing criticism, untempered by the tepid apology for her flaky conduct that follows. Instead of dumping on her he should have exerted himself to extract whatever value resides in her various statements.
He is also wrong in item #3 of "the problems with Mrs. Markham's story:"
3. All other witnesses saw the gunman flee west on Jefferson Boulevard. No one else saw the gunman go across an empty lot and disappear down the alley.
Compare:
1. Poe & Jez: "There were approximately six to eight witnesses, all telling officers that the subject was running west in the alley between Tenth and Jefferson Streets."
2. Jimmy Burt: "saw the man running into an alley located between 10th & Jefferson Avenue on Patton Street."
3. Barnes' map: "W on ally to Crawford left on Crawford to E Jefferson 300 bk."
4. Bowley: "He was told by someone on the scene that a man shot the officer and had ran West on 10th Street toward the Church."
5. Clemons: "He went across that lot there, that’s all I know. He went across that lot, I don’t know which way…"
Her importance cannot be overstated, despite the cracks in her story, because she establishes 1:06 (truncating seconds) as the time of Tippit's murder as the circumstantial reality, simply by being at the location where she should have been on her way to catch the 1:12 bus at Jefferson.