Bill Brown

Allow me to dumb this down for you... Partial prints were lifted from the patrol car in two locations. One, the passenger front door. Two, just above the wheel near the passenger-side front fender/quarter panel. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that these prints MUST belong to the killer. Also (and I'm typing slow so you can follow), the two prints most likely came from the same person and no one ever said they saw the killer touch the patrol car near the wheel of the passenger-side front fender/quarter panel. If indeed the two prints belong to the same person and the killer did not touch anywhere near the wheel near the passenger-side front fender/quarter panel, then the prints on the passenger side front door are also not the killer's. But none of that matters. What matters is what I said in the first place. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that these prints MUST belong to the killer.

Beyond Tenth and Marsalis, I didn't even pay attention to the fact that Tenth does indeed intersect with Jefferson further east.

Does this mean I wouldn't have to read any more posts by you where you claim that William Scoggins was literally lying face down in the street beside his cab and therefore never got a good look at the fleeing cop-killer? Maybe I could let this go if you'd ever FINALLY admit you were wrong to say such a thing.

Kevin, I appreciate your comments. First, I didn't say Oswald walked all the way to Marsalis. Second, I said the Deputy reported from near Tenth and Marsalis, not Tenth and Jefferson.

Now Dennis, do you have audio from the Fritz interrogations of Oswald? 😄

Great stuff, Dennis. Thanks.

"Hey, I’m glad you shared it Bill. Your previous explanation was reasonable, but you could have just said that to begin with..." I could have just said that to begin with? Like I have to handle it however you wish? Again... I don't owe you or anyone else anything at all. At the end of the day, when it was all said and done, I was going to send Greg the transcripts because he asked me nicely in a private message. But, I was going to send them to Greg on my own terms, that I was out of town, had them on my laptop and was going to wait until I got back home, where my laptop was. I do not owe Greg an explanation for why three or four days had passed between his asking for the transcripts and my addressing it. I don't owe you an explanation for it, either and that is why I didn't "just say so in the first place". Greg thought I was ignoring him and made a smart ass comment (which he since apologized for in another private message). You just jumped in where you shouldn't have and made an ass of yourself. None of this would have even been an issue if you wouldn't have butted in where you shouldn't have. "Do you believe that all police lineup identifications are of equal credibility, and all that matters is if someone picks out the suspect, regardless of how unsure they are, the fairness of the lineup, pressure from police, and anything else imaginable?" Of course, eyewitnesses can be wrong during police lineups. Only a fool would say otherwise. Positive eyewitness identifications need to be supported by physical evidence. In the case of Oswald's guilt in the murder of J.D. Tippit, the physical evidence is overwhelming. This is a fact. If you want to make the argument that the physical evidence in this case is questionable, then go ahead. Start with the names of those who switched out the shell casings, the revolver, the jacket, etc... But, you won't. "Could Markham have been wrong about the killer placing his hands on the car? Sure..." Bingo! We have a winner.

I don't know of anyone these days who argues that Oswald was walking FROM Marsalis. Myers put forth a theory that goes something like this... Oswald (trying to get to Marsalis) is walking east on Tenth toward Marsalis. Oswald goes a block and a half or so (from the area of Tenth and Patton) and notices a Dallas County Sheriff's Deputy car near Tenth and Marsalis (the county Sheriff transcripts shows that Unit 109 reported from near Tenth & Marsalis shortly after the report of the shooting by Bowley on the city police radio). Oswald, not knowing if his face has been plastered all over television (he has been on a bus, in a taxi and on foot for over forty minutes now) does not want to walk past the Deputy so he turns around and is now walking west on Tenth in the direction he had just came from. My own little timeline on Myers' theory (with no intention on being specific to the precise second)... Oswald arrives at Tenth & Patton at 1:11, walks the block and a half east on Tenth and, noticing the Deputy car, reverses direction at 1:13. Oswald walks west on Tenth encountering Tippit at 1:15. It makes as much sense as anything else, when trying to explain why Oswald would be walking east to west along Tenth Street.

I have no problem with ignoring Markham's testimony, which is completely unrelated to her positive identification of Oswald as the cop-killer during the lineup about five months BEFORE her testimony. On the evening of 11.22.63, she picked Oswald as the man she saw shoot the policeman.

"Bill Brown has provided me with scans of the pages of a transcript of the Al Chapman interview of Jimmy Burt. I see now Bill Brown posted that transcript in full (11 scanned pages) on another forum for anyone interested, here: https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,3689.672.html " Wait. What? I shared the transcripts with others in the past? Don't tell this to Tom Gram. It would ruin my seedy reputation with him. @Tom Gram "When Tippit was through talking with the man Tippit would have reached over and rolled that same window back up, as he preferred the window up, before he started to get out of his car on the driver's side. That will account for the window found rolled up after he was killed." Please list the witness who stated that Tippit rolled the window back up after rolling it down to talk to the guy who was walking. Greg, this is what you do. You literally make up scenarios in your head and try to insert them into reality with no evidence backing yourself up, only supposition. Crime scene photos show the passenger door window up and the VENT WINDOW OPENED. Tippit didn't reach over to roll the window down. Burt and Markham were wrong about this. If they're wrong about that (they were), then they could also be wrong about the killer touching the car with his hands.

"Tippit made an unsuccessful attempt to call the dispatcher at 1:08, right before he stopped his car to question a young man on foot. Domingo Benavides, a key witness, was driving his car when he saw Tippit step out of his police car and reach for his gun as he walked towards the front of the car. When the young man saw Tippit draw, he pulled out his gun from his coat pocket and fired several shots at Tippit. The time of the shooting is estimated at 1:09." Benavides stated that he watched the killer get around the corner and waited "a second or two" (The Warren Report, CBS, 1967) before getting out and going to the patrol car to use the radio. So Benavides is on the radio within 60 seconds after the shots rang out (90 seconds if I'm being generous). Benavides doesn't begin keying the mic of the patrol car radio until after 1:15. For the shooting to have occurred at 1:09 as falsely stated above, it would mean that Benavides is still cowering down inside his truck as people like Helen Markham and Frank Cimino begin to hover around Tippit's body.

"Tippit made an unsuccessful attempt to call the dispatcher at 1:08, right before he stopped his car to question a young man on foot." There is no evidence whatsoever that Tippit attempted to radio the dispatcher at 1:08. There's not much more to add here.

"Burroughs’ story was corroborated by eighteen-year-old Jack Davis, never questioned by the Warren Commission, who remembered at 1:15 seeing Oswald squeeze in right next to him at the mostly deserted theater during the opening credits to the movie..." Except that Davis doesn't say that at all. When one has to twist things around to make your point, then the point becomes completely invalid.

"Burroughs also saw someone who looked a lot like Oswald arrested about four minutes after he was. This Oswald look-alike was taken out through the rear of the theater, rather than the front. Bernard Haire, who ran his business Bernie’s Hobby House two doors away from the theater, thought he had seen Oswald taken away through the rear doors for more than twenty-five years. When he learned that he had seen someone else, he was absolutely stunned." One could make a pretty good argument that Bernard Haire is captured in a photo out in front of the Texas Theater as crowds gathered to get a look at the potential assassin. If true, then Haire would be lying when he said that "all these years, I had always believed Oswald was taken out the back blah blah blah..."

"I think it’s more likely that Oswald went straight to the Texas Theater, and was never at the Tippit crime scene. Butch Burroughs, a Texas Theater concessions employee for decades, told author Jim Marrs in 1987 that he sold Oswald popcorn right around 1:15 pm. Author Dale Myers challenged Burroughs, saying that he “told the Warren Commission that he didn’t see Oswald slip into the theater. He also didn’t mention selling popcorn to Oswald.” Myers missed the point. Ticket taker Julia Postal quoted Burroughs as saying “Well, I saw him coming out.”, presumably when Oswald bought the popcorn. Burroughs was never asked by the Warren Commission if he saw Oswald prior to the police hunt." Nonsense. The police asked Burroughs, while the search was going on inside the theater, if he had seen the guy and Burroughs told them that he had not. This would mean that Burroughs is lying a couple of decades later when he says he sold popcorn to the guy.