19-02-2019, 02:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-02-2019, 02:51 PM by Milo Reech.)
So far I've been unable to locate the complete transcript of the interview conducted by Shirley Martin with Acquilla Clemons in 1964, but Myers' blog has this interesting snippet (footnote links omitted):
Clemons' position "on this side of the walk" was at 327 E. 10th St. The only parcel in the area that might be described as a lot existed across the street at the SW corner of the intersection of Patton & 10th. In his procrustean way Myers crams the entire lot into the Davis' modest front yard at the SE corner, but this yard is not a whole lot. The phrase "that lot there" sensibly refers to the lot across 10th street, capably illustrated by Myers in the same blogpost.
It's an important point, because this is the same lot referred to obliquely in Cimino's 12/3/63 FBI statement:
The "she" in this case was "a woman dressed like a waitress," i.e. Markham. The route from 10th Street to the alley traversed the SW corner lot.
Perhaps more to follow but hoping someone can provide a link to the full transcript for the sake of research based on source material.
CLEMONS: He went across that lot there, that's all I know. He went across that lot, I don't know which way… I don't know which way he went after I seen him unloading and loading his gun. That's all I seen…. I was afraid. He frightened me. To come out and see him unloading his gun and reload it. But, I didn't pay no attention [to what he was wearing]. I just tried to get out of the way, because I thought he was going to shoot me… and I didn't pay him any mind. I was getting out of the way… See, I was pretty close to him. [He was] between that telegram (sic) post and that tree, loading his gun... And I was on this side of the walk standing right there and I didn't want him to be shooting me.
Clemons' position "on this side of the walk" was at 327 E. 10th St. The only parcel in the area that might be described as a lot existed across the street at the SW corner of the intersection of Patton & 10th. In his procrustean way Myers crams the entire lot into the Davis' modest front yard at the SE corner, but this yard is not a whole lot. The phrase "that lot there" sensibly refers to the lot across 10th street, capably illustrated by Myers in the same blogpost.
It's an important point, because this is the same lot referred to obliquely in Cimino's 12/3/63 FBI statement:
She also advised a man had just shot a police officer and stated he had run west on Tenth Street and pointed in the direction of an alley which runs between Tenth Street and Jefferson off Patton Street.
The "she" in this case was "a woman dressed like a waitress," i.e. Markham. The route from 10th Street to the alley traversed the SW corner lot.
Perhaps more to follow but hoping someone can provide a link to the full transcript for the sake of research based on source material.