The crucial hour and twenty minutes

[David Josephs]

Interesting, David. I need to go back and review all of the earliest statements from the witnesses during this time period.

One strange connection I just made is that Al Volkland, a witness who saw Tippit at GLOCO shortly before 1pm, had earlier taken a photograph of the presidential limousine speeding by on the freeway.

Which brings us full circle to "witness statements" versus "physical evidence"

One of the more interesting references to this time period is Hill's and Summer's references to automatic shells and weapon.

Years later when Hill recounts WHY he thought they were autos he literally says becasue they HE found saw them in a small area bunched together... indicating to HIM they were ejected from an auto...
Which is not possible since Poe already had shells in the cigarette package by the time Hill arrives.... not to mention the other shells found near the Davis'.

So what else could have caused him to say that? The shell casings' size and the fact that AUTO would be written on the bottom is one possibility. The "SHELLS" indicate... that's a pretty definitive statement given a DPD officer with the shells in his possession is able to make a determination and REMOVE A PISTOL FROM CONSIDERATION... I realize this broadcast does not equate to evidence for the gun being an automatic.... but given the condition of the shells, the lack of a chain of custody or chain of possession, and the condition of the remaining shells "found in his pocket hours and hours after his arrest"... this could be a piece of physical evidence that helps with the DPD part of the conspiracy.

DJ
1:34 221 (Ptm.H.W. Summers) Might can give you some additional information. I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man.That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven,a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand.

1:34 550/2 (Sgt.G.L. Hill) The shells at the scene indicate that the suspect is armed with an automatic 38, rather than a pistol.