Where did I claim to be able to determine what she thought? Please explain.
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Actually, the question was not totally clear.
The question may not have been totally clear to you, but that doesn't mean it was the same for Markham. So, unless you determine for her what she tought, she understood and answered Ball's question.
I do believe Ball was trying to ask her what time she boarded her bus and I have never said otherwise. What I said was that because the question is not totally clear, we don't really know exactly how Markham interpreted the question and because of this, we do not know what her answer really means. Ball certainly could have asked the question in a more obvious manner than he did.
You can believe what you want, but just because you - for obvious reasons - feel the question wasn't clear, doesn't mean that you get to argue what Markham's answer really means. She answered Ball's question without hesitation. That's what's in the record.
There was no 1:15 bus, according to all of the information we have. If you have something which suggests otherwise, then please post it (which you won't do, because you don't have it).
I never claimed there was a 1.15 bus.
As for the bus being late, obviously it can be late on occasion. However, one doesn't bank on the bus being late every single time so your point here is kind of invalid.
Nobody has claimed that Markham banked on the bus being late. She just estimated the time. When you have the same routine every work day, you know when to leave home in order to make sure you get to the bus on time, regardless on what exact minute it arrives at the bus stop. Markham knew she left home a little after one and the distance to walk was two blocks, which means that she would have been at the bus stop well on time for the arrival of the bus she needed. Her estimate being off by 3 minutes doesn't alter that at all.
I can accept that Lee Oswald murdered J.D. Tippit at 1:13. Fair enough?
No. In order to "accept" that, you still imply that Markham's estimate (for either catching her regular bus or arriving at the bus stop) of 1.15 was correct, when in fact you have no way of knowing that it was.
Besides, if Tippit was killed at 1.13, it means that Bowley must have witnessed the murder, as he arrived at 10th street at 1.10. But we know he didn't. It also means that the ambulance would have had only two minutes time between it's dispatch from the funeral home on Jefferson and it's arrival at Methodist Hospital at 1.15, when Tippit was declared DOA.
In other words, you can only accept that Tippit was killed at 1.13 when you ignore the bigger picture and the other evidence.