Bill Brown

"His Oswald walking east-west theory. Markham has him walking onto the curb right in front of Scoggins cab going east." Markham said that, yes. However, Scoggins stated that he did not see Oswald walk right in front of his cab. So, if we listen to Scoggins, Oswald wasn't walking from west to east, per Markham. So why say Myers is wrong, i.e. why say Scoggins is wrong? Between Markham and Scoggins, one is wrong but why is it automatic that Scoggins/Myers is wrong? Perhaps Markham was wrong? Myers interviewed Bill Smith who says he and Jimmy Burt were out in the front yard of the house on the corner of Tenth and Denver. This is one block east of Tenth and Patton. Smith said that Burt saw the man (who would eventually kill Tippit) walking from east to west along Tenth toward the eventual location of the encounter between Tippit and his killer. So we can put Burt into a category with Scoggins. "Neither is there enough time to have Oswald walking west along 10th street for any considerable period of time." After Tippit is shot, according to the Dallas County Sheriff's radio transcripts, a sheriff's deputy reports that he is near the location of Tenth and Marsalis. Myers puts forth this idea in the updated 2013 edition of With Malice... Oswald is walking west to east along Tenth toward Marsalis. Just east of it's intersection with Denver, Tenth Street curves to the right. Oswald, walking west to east, begins to go around that curve and notices a sheriff deputy's car sitting there (we know from the transcripts that one was there minutes later). Therefore, Oswald does an about face and is now walking east to west along Tenth. Remember, Jimmy Burt said he saw the killer, before the encounter with Tippit, walking east to west along Tenth. Oswald, having been on the run for over forty minutes at this point, has no idea if his face has been plastered all over television and therefore he does not want to walk past the deputy's car. He reverses direction and is now walking on Tenth back toward Patton. If Oswald left the rooming house at 1 pm sharp, he could arrive at Tenth and Patton (the first time) around 1:11. Give him three to four minutes to walk west to east on Tenth to the point where Tenth curves (toward Marsalis) and back and you have Oswald right where he encounters Tippit perfectly in time. This is admittedly speculation, but if it happened this way, Burt sees the man after the man has performed the about face on Tenth. "Also the Glocco gas station thing. If I remember correctly, Myers says (I think) Tippit was not at that station when from what I can see he was." I don't believe Myers ever says that Tippit was not at the Gloco station.

Gerry, just curious... Can you give examples of this "a lot of stuff" that Myers gets wrong in With Malice?

Shirley Martin interview with Acquilla Clemons.

Gerry, Yes. That is Clemons' interview with Shirley Martin.

Whether you like it or not, it is a fact that Markham picked out Oswald at the lineup in November of '63. That positive identification has nothing to do with whatever it is you think she told Lane and/or she testified to many months later.

Greg, Below is an image of Tenth, Patton and Jefferson. The blue circle is the spot where Tippit was killed. The red circle is the location where Callaway was standing on the sidewalk on Patton. The black arrow depicts the spot where Tippit fell to the corner of Tenth and Patton. Pete Barnes measured the distance from the location where Tippit fell to the corner of Tenth and Patton to be 114 feet. Obviously this image below is not to exact scale but it's much more reliable than your car length estimate. I stand by my 300 foot estimate.

No. You don't hear any of that from roughly three hundred feet away.

Please explain how the obvious confusion between her and Ball during her testimony given many months later negates that, on 11/22/63, Markham picked out Oswald as the cop-killer.

"...lived on the north side of Tenth Street..." "...sitting on the porch of her house..." FYI... Acquilla Clemons worked at that house, she did not live there. This is very basic information and is something you should know, especially if you feel qualified to make a post like yours above. Clemons was a caregiver for the man who owned the home, John Smotherman, who was ill and died about three years later.

"There is no doubt to me that what Acquilla Clemons saw, and what Doris Holan from her second-story window on Patton saw, was the known shouting/waving-arms interaction between the killer and Ted Callaway on Patton, running in opposite directions on Patton." Again, No. The exchange between Callaway and the killer (Oswald) took place three-fourths of the way down the block on Patton Ave., down by Jefferson; nowhere near Tenth and Patton. Clemons' scenario has the exchange between the two men as taking place on Tenth Street. Greg, do you realize that the exchange between Callaway and the killer took place roughly THREE HUNDRED FEET south of the corner of Tenth and Patton?

The letter's "anonymous" author claimed to be a witness to the Tippit shooting. Frank Wright, himself, doesn't claim to have ever witnessed the shooting.

What a bunch of nonsense. This mysterious letter was signed at the bottom "anonymous". Laughable to even mention it.

Matt D. says: "Litwin then says that “one expert concluded that one of the four bullets recovered from Tippit’s body matched the revolver found in Oswald’s possession”—but 8 other experts disagreed with him..." This isn't really accurate (and a bit dishonest, in my opinion). Joseph Nicol is the "one expert" referred to here. Nicol was able to link one of the four bullets to Oswald's revolver. The other experts did not "disagree" with Nicol so much as they simply could not say one way or the other, re: whether that bullet could be linked to the revolver. In other words, regarding this one bullet, Nicol was able to link it to the revolver and the other experts remained inconclusive, i.e. they did NOT say that the bullet didn't come from the revolver. A better way to put this is, when attempting (through ballistic testing) to link a spent slug to a particular weapon, three results(?) can be reached... 1. A match 2. Not a match 3. Inconclusive. Regarding this one particular bullet, Nicol matched it to the revolver. The other experts' findings were inconclusive. However, only a finding of "not a match" would mean that the other experts actually disagreed with Nicol. So my question is, why the dishonesty? Why not just tell it how it really is? Let's get it right, guys.

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I was in Dealey Plaza for the 50th, as well. I saw Jones and his clan basically take over Dealey Plaza on Thursday the 21st. Jones was on his bullhorn spouting his typical nonsense and they would eventually fall into a chant of "1776" over and over. It was a clown show. On a positive note, I got the chance to talk to Lee Ann McAdoo for about 15 minutes.

Yes, they've already been shot and of course they're falling forward, as they're on a downward slope. Natural human tendencies also tell you that they're leaning forward before the shot. You said a documentary, not a still film frame. Where's the footage?

Please explain how the house could be of any evidentiary value today.

So these men are leaning forward and on a downward slope... yet it is the bullet's impact which causes them to fall forward. Ha Okay. Whatever you say. Good grief.

Nonsense.

...but he [Myers] called anyone with an interest in studying the JFK case a pathetic loser, or something like that. No, he didn't.

Agreed. And have you noticed who started it? Just scroll back until you see the "Moby Dick" comments by two ill-advised conspiracy advocates. That's where it began. Now, I'm a big boy. I can take it and I'm not complaining. But, I didn't start it.

Speaking of trolling.

You must be confused. Let me help. You're under the mistaken impression that posting links to the blog of another person is the same as speaking for that person. I'm not sure why you think so but you're wrong, nonetheless. You're asking me to speak for him and I won't do that to another person, ever. If you sincerely want to know, ask Myers. It's very easy to do. I've already told you this. Anything more and you're just trolling. Typical.

Now that you're finally learning something, why stop there? Shouldn't you run off and study up on Lee's letter to his brother Robert?

Embarrassing, indeed.