ILG: I know this is a crazy question but is there any way of recalling which programme, which station, you were listening to?
JCB: A Dallas station. I have a feeling it may have been KLIF. That would be one of the stations that I would ordinarily be listening to, but I honestly don't know. It was just the normal run of the motorcade and all of a sudden you hear all the commotion and then you hear something about shots being fired and then -- you know.
I know -- "probably" another "false memory".
When did Mr. Brewer make this statement? And what problem does it cause me? He said he didn’t know which station he was listening to. It may have been KLIF. Or it may have not. Your implying that because he thought it might have been KLIF, it probably was KLIF. Who is making the ‘probably’ argument now?
The burden is on the people who claim that Brewer heard a radio report of a policeman being shot in Oak Cliff to show that such a report was actually made.
No. The burden is on the people who claim Mr. Brewer could not possibly have heard such a broadcast. Because the Dictabelt tapes record two policemen talking about just such a broadcast at 1:26 or 1:27. I don’t think either was hallucinating. So, it must be assumed that such a broadcast did take place, until it is proven that no such early broadcast took place, on any of the local radio stations, not just one or two. Only then can it be declared “impossible”.
NBC is NBC is NBC. They either reported it or they didn't.
No. I live in the San Francisco area. I listen on a radio to a CBS station, KCBS. They talk about the national news, the local news and the local weather and traffic. I assume the same is true throughout the country. Each major city would have its own local NBC radio station and not just broadcast the same that is broadcast out of New York. How else are people to find out about their local weather and traffic? Go to a competitor’s station?
As an aside, I was running with the theory that some NBC reporter could have monitored the police radio frequencies, to get this scoop. But there is another more-straight forward way. Send some reporters to the Dallas Police station. What better way to get early information? The talk of a police shooting would quickly spread throughout the police station. Later in the day, after Oswald was brought in, the press camped out in huge numbers in the police station. But there is no reason to believe there would not have been a media presence during the first hour after the assassination. If reporters did not find out about the Officer Tippit shooing within a few minutes, or did but decided not to report it, that would be surprising.
P. S. I just remembered, that reporters did know about the shooting of the police officer in the Oak Cliff area. Many of them immediately left the Dealey Plaza area to go to the Oak Cliff area. Before Oswald was captured, one of the reporters was helping the police search a building, as I recall, and thought this was crazy because he did not have a gun to defend himself.
