A Sorry "Nightmare" Of A Book

[Donald Willis]

1 hour ago, Kevin Balch said:

It really wouldn’t be necessary to drive 5 blocks past the rooming house to see that there were no police or investigators present at the rooming house. If Oswald was let off just a block away, it would save 4-5 minutes perhaps allowing him to reach Marsalis and turn around to encounter Tippit head on. This would explain why Oswald was not spotted by Scoggins or Markham crossing Patton as they would not yet be present to see it.

Markham did testify that she first saw the guy when he was "almost across Patton St." (v3p307)

[Kevin Balch]

2 hours ago, Donald Willis said:

Markham did testify that she first saw the guy when he was "almost across Patton St." (v3p307)

Oswald would have had to cover about 190 feet* during which he would have been visible to Scoggins either walking back to his taxi or sitting behind the wheel, coming within about 10 feet in front of his taxi. At about 5 feet per second walking speed that provides almost 40 seconds of viewing opportunity. Hard to believe Scoggins did not see Oswald. We would also have to ignore the witnesses near Denver and 10th seeing Oswald walking west. Even Myers has Oswald walking west. The original police statement had the assailant walking west.

Myers postulates that Oswald was walking west when he saw Tippit’s patrol car and reversed direction and this is what flagged Tippit’s attention to stop Oswald. That would mean that Oswald would have had to turn around somewhere very close to the corner of 10th and Patton to account for the time it would take Tippit to cover the distance (traveling maybe 10 mph) between when he spotted Oswald turning around and when he stopped his car. But no one saw this. And it raises the question of why Oswald reversed direction somewhere east of Denver and 10th.

* 50 feet on 10th west of Patton + 30 feet crossing Patton + 114 feet east of Patton to murder site.

[Bill Brown]

 

Oswald gave Whaley the destination of 500 N. Beckley.  Once they approached the 700 block (Beckley and Neely), Oswald told Whaley that this would do just fine.  Whaley pulled over just north of the corner and Oswald got out.

 

[Donald Willis]

15 minutes ago, Bill Brown said:

 

Oswald gave Whaley the destination of 500 N. Beckley.  Once they approached the 700 block (Beckley and Neely), Oswald told Whaley that this would do just fine.  Whaley pulled over just north of the corner and Oswald got out.

 

Then why did Whaley say that he "turned left at the 500 block of N. Beckley..."?  Obviously, Oswald changed his mind about the original drop-off point when he saw that there were no police cars near the rooming house.  And the taciturn (as Whaley noted) Oswald did not inform Whaley that the new drop-off point was in fact a change.  So Whaley thought that the block he turned onto on Beckley was the 500 block.

[Bill Brown]

1 hour ago, Donald Willis said:

Then why did Whaley say that he "turned left at the 500 block of N. Beckley..."?  Obviously, Oswald changed his mind about the original drop-off point when he saw that there were no police cars near the rooming house.  And the taciturn (as Whaley noted) Oswald did not inform Whaley that the new drop-off point was in fact a change.  So Whaley thought that the block he turned onto on Beckley was the 500 block.

 

"Coming on to the intersection of Neely and North Beckley.  He said this will do fine.  I pulled over to the curb.  The fare was 95 cents.  He handed me a dollar bill and got out." -- William Whaley (Four Days In November documentary)

 

 

[Gerry Down]

2 hours ago, Bill Brown said:

 

Oswald gave Whaley the destination of 500 N. Beckley.  Once they approached the 700 block (Beckley and Neely), Oswald told Whaley that this would do just fine.  Whaley pulled over just north of the corner and Oswald got out.

 

Is that the same place the WCR says he got out? 

[Donald Willis]

15 hours ago, Bill Brown said:

 

"Coming on to the intersection of Neely and North Beckley.  He said this will do fine.  I pulled over to the curb.  The fare was 95 cents.  He handed me a dollar bill and got out." -- William Whaley (Four Days In November documentary)

 

 

Asked, at the hearings, to put an "X" on a map (CE 371) to indicate where he left off Oswald, Whaley marks a big "X" on the intersection of N. Beckley and Neches/El Dorado/Zangs, different names for a street which is actually continuous.  And in the video, he calls that intersection the 500 block.  Oswald threw him off when he changed destinations and said "This will do fine"--at the 1000 block, when he saw that the coast was clear...