24-10-2021, 10:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-10-2021, 11:38 AM by Milo Reech.
Edit Reason: newsgroup clarification
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Speaking of loose ends two items relative to this thread require tightening up.
First involves the link to the Willis thread at alt.assassination.jfk mentioned in the first post, now flushed to the newsgroup archive:
https://alt.assassination.jfk.narkive.co...o-actually
The critical information imparted by Willis occurs in these paragraphs:
Question: Why would Officer J.D. Tippit's killer run more or less west on Jefferson, AWAY, quite logically, from the scene of the crime, then do a 180 turn, heading back more or less east in the alley, towards the two old houses/stores, TOWARDS the scene of the crime? (illustration featuring the houses p90 "With Malice") This is what Warren Reynolds would have us believe. We have a frame grab from film footage of Reynolds as he tells a policeman that the "gunman went into the rear of the used furniture store seen in the background." (WM caption p131)
It would make sense, be more logical, if Reynolds' suspect was running west in the ALLEY and, halfway down, ducked into the back of one of the houses just off the alley. No backtracking. The fact that Reynolds told the cops that he last saw the man going into the old house was never again mentioned by him--he simply told the Warren Commission that the suspect "went behind the station, and that is when I lost him" (7/22/64 testimony)--and the Commission was apparently not granted access to the film footage. Not surprising: The film-documented Reynolds-and-the-old-house story all but negates the story told by Pat Patterson, Harold Russell, L.J. Lewis, and, later, Reynolds himself--that the suspect the four had seen had turned off Patton St. and onto Jefferson, not into the alley.
This is a breakthrough from which we all benefit, relieving us of the tedious burden of supplying runners to fill the bases dictated by WR.
The second item involves Benavides, who burst into brilliance under WC's Belin's interrogation by assigning unsuspecting Belin's physical attributes to Tippit's killer. He concludes with a celebrated description of the squared-off hairline:
I remember the back of his head seemed like his hairline was sort of--looked like his hairline sort of went square instead of tapered off, and he looked like he needed a haircut for about 2 weeks, but his hair didn't taper off, it kind of went down and it squared off and made his head look flat in the back.
6H451
Guess whose "hair didn't taper off... kind of went down and... squared off and made his head look flat in the back?" Just so -- it's Belin!
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-.../515035220
So much of the Tippit scenario is grimly reminiscent of Rashomon it can drag a person down, refreshing to get to see The Usual Suspects again, with Benavides playing Keyser Söze.
First involves the link to the Willis thread at alt.assassination.jfk mentioned in the first post, now flushed to the newsgroup archive:
https://alt.assassination.jfk.narkive.co...o-actually
The critical information imparted by Willis occurs in these paragraphs:
Question: Why would Officer J.D. Tippit's killer run more or less west on Jefferson, AWAY, quite logically, from the scene of the crime, then do a 180 turn, heading back more or less east in the alley, towards the two old houses/stores, TOWARDS the scene of the crime? (illustration featuring the houses p90 "With Malice") This is what Warren Reynolds would have us believe. We have a frame grab from film footage of Reynolds as he tells a policeman that the "gunman went into the rear of the used furniture store seen in the background." (WM caption p131)
It would make sense, be more logical, if Reynolds' suspect was running west in the ALLEY and, halfway down, ducked into the back of one of the houses just off the alley. No backtracking. The fact that Reynolds told the cops that he last saw the man going into the old house was never again mentioned by him--he simply told the Warren Commission that the suspect "went behind the station, and that is when I lost him" (7/22/64 testimony)--and the Commission was apparently not granted access to the film footage. Not surprising: The film-documented Reynolds-and-the-old-house story all but negates the story told by Pat Patterson, Harold Russell, L.J. Lewis, and, later, Reynolds himself--that the suspect the four had seen had turned off Patton St. and onto Jefferson, not into the alley.
This is a breakthrough from which we all benefit, relieving us of the tedious burden of supplying runners to fill the bases dictated by WR.
The second item involves Benavides, who burst into brilliance under WC's Belin's interrogation by assigning unsuspecting Belin's physical attributes to Tippit's killer. He concludes with a celebrated description of the squared-off hairline:
I remember the back of his head seemed like his hairline was sort of--looked like his hairline sort of went square instead of tapered off, and he looked like he needed a haircut for about 2 weeks, but his hair didn't taper off, it kind of went down and it squared off and made his head look flat in the back.
6H451
Guess whose "hair didn't taper off... kind of went down and... squared off and made his head look flat in the back?" Just so -- it's Belin!
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-.../515035220
So much of the Tippit scenario is grimly reminiscent of Rashomon it can drag a person down, refreshing to get to see The Usual Suspects again, with Benavides playing Keyser Söze.