14-03-2020, 11:34 PM
Brownlow enlarges on the relationship between the Marsalis stabbing & Tippit shooting events, connecting them spatially by bicycle. The cyclist is Jimmy Holan, Doris' son, who pedaled briskly to relate his tale of blood to Mom, standing by Tippit's corpse.
He also puts Croy & the ambulance at the scene, followed shortly by Olsen in a squad car arriving from the east. Croy & Olsen then listen to a Mexican woman, driving a yellow Volkswagen, who describes the same stabbing previously described by young Jimmy Holan. He had out-pedaled her Beatle.
If this is insufficiently startling, what happens next takes the cake. Reserve Sergeant Croy sends Patrolman Olsen to Marsalis to investigate the stabbing, and he does so! Well, after a fashion, that is, observing blood, listening to witnesses who state the assailants drove away heading north, and proceeding to leave the area driving south.
Finally, Professor Pulte breaks in, sensing the dramatic potential of the moment.
Pulte: "Well, I'm curious. Did Olsen indicate he thought it might be related to the Tippit murder?"
Brownlow: "O yes, and I asked him, 'Officer Olsen, did you pick up Lee Harvey Oswald at the rooming house?' and he hesitated. He said, 'A lot of people followed orders that day.'"
Neither Brownlow nor Pulte is troubled by the fact that Olsen was off-duty that day, and, even if he weren't, it was no more in the man's character to accept orders from a reserve sergeant than it was in Croy's to issue them.
Following his dismissal from DPD shortly after a 12/63 crack-up, Olsen moved to California and became evasive, both as to his whereabouts and testimony when interviewed/interrogated. Not a word as to how Brownlow overcame these obstacles to obtain sensational information.
The timing is fatal to an attempt to concatenate one event on the other, as the stabbing and shooting were nearly simultaneous. As described by Brownlow the maximum interval was less than a minute either way.
This defeats speculation that Tippit was dispatched to investigate the incident at Marsalis, getting ambushed along the way, unless one is willing to argue Jimmy Holan had a very rusty chain and the VW overheated. Another approach might be to dismiss the bulk of what Pulte & Brownlow say, but then a reason must be given to repose trust in the accuracy of a single iota when everything else is hogwash. The argument requires more than faith in a pet theory for support.
He also puts Croy & the ambulance at the scene, followed shortly by Olsen in a squad car arriving from the east. Croy & Olsen then listen to a Mexican woman, driving a yellow Volkswagen, who describes the same stabbing previously described by young Jimmy Holan. He had out-pedaled her Beatle.
If this is insufficiently startling, what happens next takes the cake. Reserve Sergeant Croy sends Patrolman Olsen to Marsalis to investigate the stabbing, and he does so! Well, after a fashion, that is, observing blood, listening to witnesses who state the assailants drove away heading north, and proceeding to leave the area driving south.
Finally, Professor Pulte breaks in, sensing the dramatic potential of the moment.
Pulte: "Well, I'm curious. Did Olsen indicate he thought it might be related to the Tippit murder?"
Brownlow: "O yes, and I asked him, 'Officer Olsen, did you pick up Lee Harvey Oswald at the rooming house?' and he hesitated. He said, 'A lot of people followed orders that day.'"
Neither Brownlow nor Pulte is troubled by the fact that Olsen was off-duty that day, and, even if he weren't, it was no more in the man's character to accept orders from a reserve sergeant than it was in Croy's to issue them.
Following his dismissal from DPD shortly after a 12/63 crack-up, Olsen moved to California and became evasive, both as to his whereabouts and testimony when interviewed/interrogated. Not a word as to how Brownlow overcame these obstacles to obtain sensational information.
The timing is fatal to an attempt to concatenate one event on the other, as the stabbing and shooting were nearly simultaneous. As described by Brownlow the maximum interval was less than a minute either way.
This defeats speculation that Tippit was dispatched to investigate the incident at Marsalis, getting ambushed along the way, unless one is willing to argue Jimmy Holan had a very rusty chain and the VW overheated. Another approach might be to dismiss the bulk of what Pulte & Brownlow say, but then a reason must be given to repose trust in the accuracy of a single iota when everything else is hogwash. The argument requires more than faith in a pet theory for support.