Oswald killed Tippit -- Helen Markham confirms her ID on CBS 1964

[Martin Weidmann]

So what do you make of Helen Markham's statement to Eddie Barker of KRLD TV Dallas?

A year long media indoctrination, telling the people that Oswald was indeed the killer, and a subsequent offical report, saying basically the same thing, would convince most witnesses that any doubts about the identity of Tippit's killer they may have had was probably mistaken.

Rationalisation has a tendency to influence people's thought processes. Back in those days even Marina Oswald believed her husband killed Kennedy and Tippit, so why shouldn't Markham? She basically had two options; (1) stick with the official story and be done with it or (2) or say something that disagrees with the narrative and get into all sorts of trouble with people who disagree..... 

The Barker interview has no probative value.

[Walt Cakebread]

A year long media indoctrination, telling the people that Oswald was indeed the killer, and a subsequent offical report, saying basically the same thing, would convince most witnesses that any doubts about the identity of Tippit's killer they may have had was probably mistaken.

Rationalisation has a tendency to influence people's thought processes. Back in those days even Marina Oswald believed her husband killed Kennedy and Tippit, so why shouldn't Markham? She basically had two options; (1) stick with the official story and be done with it or (2) or say something that disagrees with the narrative and get into all sorts of trouble with people who disagree..... 

The Barker interview has no probative value.

    Well said, Martin.....

[Ross Lidell]

She identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who killed Officer Tippit.

If you truly believe this,  It merely indicates how superficial you are......

A stupid vague riposte. Look at the video of Helen Markham and what she says.

[Ross Lidell]

A television news broadcast at 1 PM isn't an "inaccurate timepiece" and neither is the minimal time required to walk the fastest route.

What "better evidence" is there? If Oswald physically couldn't have covered the distance between to roominghouse and 10th/Patton to shoot Tippit, the eye witnesses who "identified" him can not be correct.

If multiple witnesses place Oswald at or near the scene of the crime (murder of Officer J.D. Tippit) the timing discrepancy theories cannot be correct. Physical presence trumps calculations based on perception--every time.

[John Iacoletti]

So what do you make of Helen Markham's statement to Eddie Barker of KRLD TV Dallas?

I thought it was amusing that she knowed it was that man ‘cause she couldn’t keep her eyes off of him.  Almost as amusing as the way she picked him because when he looked at her she got cold chills and fell over.

[John Iacoletti]

A stupid vague riposte. Look at the video of Helen Markham and what she says.

What I'm trying to figure out is if you think this video reveals any information that isn't already in her previous statements and testimony.

[Ross Lidell]

I thought it was amusing that she knowed it was that man ‘cause she couldn’t keep her eyes off of him.  Almost as amusing as the way she picked him because when he looked at her she got cold chills and fell over.

Perhaps, John, you've had little experience with women? They tend to be emotional: some more than others.

We both agree that Markham's Teyxsus accent is amusing. 

The cold chills and almost fainted thing is illuminating rather than amusing.

[John Iacoletti]

The cold chills and almost fainted thing is illuminating rather than amusing.

Perhaps it's more sad than amusing.  What a basis for identifying someone.  Not from his face, or his clothing, or because she recognized him, but because she got cold chills and fell over when she looked at his eyes.