Right on.
So now it's termed "unreliable" -- LOL. The continued desperate attempts to make unpleasant evidence go away have been duly noted.
Umm, so does this mean you're never going to explain why you insist on using the Decker crosstalk as the time indicator instead of the dispatcher time notations, Fisher's simultaneous crosstalk, and Curry's two transmissions on Channel 2?
For the sake of others who are viewing this thread, let me explain why Mr. Beck keeps ducking this straightforward question.
Beck and others use Decker's crosstalk as their time indicator because if we time the dictabelt gunshots according to Decker's crosstalk, this means the gunshots were recorded about 60 seconds after the assassination and therefore cannot be gunshots but must be random noise. But this timing is refuted by considerable evidence.
For starters, Fisher’s “I’ll check” crosstalk, which occurs simultaneously on both channels, occurs 2 seconds before the first dictabelt gunshot on Channel 1, and about 8 seconds before the 12:30 time notation on Channel 2. All five gunshot impulse patterns occur on Channel 1.
Curry’s “triple underpass” transmission occurs 6 seconds before the 12:30 time notation on Channel 2 and 2 seconds after Fisher’s “I’ll check” crosstalk.
Curry’s “to the hospital” transmission occurs 12 seconds after the 12:30 time notation on Channel 2 and 18 seconds after his “triple underpass” transmission. This is key evidence because we know that Curry made the “to the hospital” transmission while still in Dealey Plaza, just after he heard gunfire. We also know that after the first hit on JFK, Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman, riding in JFK’s limo, radioed Secret Service agent Winston Lawson, who was sitting next to Curry in the lead car, and told Lawson that Kennedy was hit and ordered Lawson to go to the hospital. Thus, it is no surprise that Curry quickly gave his “to the hospital” order.
The final gunshot on the dictabelt occurs 2-3 seconds after the 12:30 time notation on Channel 2. All the dictabelt gunshots occur between Curry’s “triple underpass” transmission and his “to the hospital” transmission on Channel 2. The gunshots begin almost simultaneously with Curry’s “triple underpass” transmission.
Decker’s “hold everything” crosstalk occurs on Channel 1 a split-second after the last dictabelt gunshot, but it was originally broadcast on Channel 2 about 60 seconds
later. This is where we need to talk about time offsets, because the offsets prove that Decker's crosstalk is a very unreliable time indicator.
There are four crosstalk time offsets between Channel 1 and Channel 2:
-- An 89-second offset between Fisher’s “I’ll check” crosstalk and Decker’s “hold everything” crosstalk.
-- A 31-second offset between Decker’s “hold everything” crosstalk and Bellah’s “you want me” crosstalk.
-- A 3-second offset between Bellah’s “you want me” crosstalk and the dispatcher’s “attention all” crosstalk.
-- A 24-second offset between Bellah’s “you want me” crosstalk and the dispatcher’s “attention all” crosstalk.
Notice that the Decker crosstalk is the most offset of the crosstalk events, that its offsets are larger than the others. Its offsets are 89 seconds and 31 seconds, whereas the Bellah offsets are 24 seconds and 3 seconds.
To explain the Decker-Bellah offset, the NRC panel erroneously theorized that Channel 2’s recorder must have stopped for 31 seconds between the 12:30 and 12:32 time notations. But this is impossible because Channel 2 was, understandably, very busy from 12:30 onward, for several minutes, and Channel 2’s recording machine only stopped during dead spaces (i.e., when no one was talking).
If we assume that the 31-second time offset was caused by stylus displacement on Channel 1, instead of recorder stoppage on Channel 2, this would explain why the “hold everything” crosstalk was recorded on Channel 1 earlier than it was recorded on Channel 2. Simply put, this would mean that the “hold everything” crosstalk is worthless as a time indicator because stylus displacement on Channel 1 put it on Channel 1 earlier than it should have been placed there. The stylus-displacement theory also fits the time notations.
But if we go with the recorder-stoppage theory, this throws the 12:30-12:33 transmissions out of alignment and does not fit the time notations. The 12:32 time notation occurs almost exactly 2 minutes after the 12:30 time notation, and the 12:36 time notation comes almost exactly 6 minutes after the 12:30 time notation. But if we accept the recorder-stoppage theory, this severely skews the time notations, but we know the time notations are consistent with each other to within a few seconds.
Suffice it to say that the time offsets alone prove that Decker’s crosstalk is not a reliable time indicator. But those who reject the acoustical evidence dismiss the gunfire timeframe indicated by the Fisher crosstalk, the time notations, and the two assassination-period Curry transmissions. Instead, they insist on using Decker's "hold everything" crosstalk as their time indicator because it gives them a basis, albeit a bogus one, to claim that the dictabelt gunshots occurred about 60 seconds after the assassination. It also serves as their excuse for not explaining the powerful, intricate correlations between the dictabelt gunshots and the gunshots from the Dealey Plaza test firing.
Importantly, as mentioned earlier, the Fisher crosstalk is simultaneous, i.e., it occurs at the same time on Channel 1 that it does on Channel 2. This is crucial because Fisher’s “I’ll check” crosstalk comes 2 seconds before the first dictabelt shot, 2 seconds before Curry’s “triple underpass” transmission, 8 seconds before the 12:30 time notation, and 20 seconds before Curry’s “to the hospital” transmission. Thus, Fisher’s crosstalk serves as an excellent time indicator and as a way to correlate the timing of key transmission on the two channels. It also establishes when the shots occurred in relation to (1) the 12:30 time notation on Channel 2, (2) Curry’s “triple underpass” transmission on Channel 2, and (3) Curry’s “to the hospital” transmission on Channel 2.
Impressively, if we use the Bellah crosstalk to establish a time correlation between the two channels and track backward to Curry’s “triple underpass” transmission, then we again find that the gunfire begins on Channel 1 at virtually the same time that Curry’s “triple underpass” transmission occurs on Channel 2, and that the gunfire ends about 10 seconds before Curry’s “to the hospital” transmission on Channel 2. This is telling because this timing agrees with the timing established by the Fisher crosstalk.
