Dale Myers started with the dispatcher timestamp at 1:19 and worked backwards from there. This has Bowley on the police radio reporting the shooting at 1:17.
And if the starting time is wrong all other times are wrong as well. The information that J.C. Bowles, the man in charge of the DPD dispatchers, provided to the HSCA shows unequivocally that the times on the radio transcripts can not be relied upon as being the actual times.
This is pretty simple. Bowley didn't see anything. The killer was gone by the time he arrived.
And, we know from the police tapes that Bowley did not really arrive at 1:10 so there was no need to call him to testify about anything. The Commission discounted Bowley's time of 1:10 because (again) the police tapes tell us that his watch was clearly wrong by about five or six minutes.
As for your constant relying on Bowles and the clocks, please explain how any of that is supposed to show that the police tapes were off by more than two minutes.
And, we know from the police tapes that Bowley did not really arrive at 1:10We don't know any such thing. The times on the police tapes are disputed as being actual time by the man in charge of the dispatchers!
As for your constant relying on Bowles and the clocks, please explain how any of that is supposed to show that the police tapes were off by more than two minutes.You really need to read what Bowles actually said;
"A master clock on the telephone room wall was connected to the City Hall system. This clock reported "official" time."There is no mention of "official time" being the same as actual time!
"Within the dispatcher's office there were numerous other time giving and time recording devices, both in the telephone room and in the radio room." None of these clocks were directly connected to the master clock. They all functioned independently of eachother
"Telephone operators and radio operators were furnished "Simplex" clocks. Because the hands often worked loose, they indicated the incorrect time."If, as Bowles claims, the radio operators worked with clocks that indicated the incorrect time, the time calls on the DPD recordings and transcripts are also incorrect.
"However, their purpose was to stamp the time, day and date on incoming calls. While they were reliable at this, they were not synchronized as stated in the Committee report." Clocks that are not synchronized, not linked to the master clock, and that only served to provide a time stamp using incorrect time can hardly be called reliable.
"Therefore, it was not uncommon for the time stamped on calls to be a minute to two ahead or behind the "official" time shown on the master clock."A clock that provides a time stamp that can be off by two minutes ahead or behind the "official" times is basically off by four minutes. Add to this that Bowles does not say that the master clock shows actual time and you've got a completely unreliable system to base any conclusions on. And it gets worse;
"When clocks were as much as a minute or so out of synchronization it was normal procedure to make the needed adjustments. During busy periods this was not readily done." The normal procedure to adjust clocks that were out of sync was not always followed during busy times. I would argue that the radio traffic after the assassination of the President was one of those busy periods!
"In addition to the times stamped on calls by telephone operators, the radio operators stamped the "time" as calls were dispatched, and the "time" that officers completed an assignment and returned to service. Radio operators were also furnished with 12-hour digital clocks to facilitate their time references when they were not using call sheets containing stamped time. These digital clocks were not synchronized with any time standard. Therefore, the time "actual" and time "broadcast" could easily be a minute or so apart."Bowles explained it perfectly clear!
So, in short; the master clock was connected to a clock at town hall that showed "official time". It's not even sure that was the same as real time. All other clocks used by the DPD were not automatically synchronized with the master clock and required adjustments, which in busy periods did not always take place. And radio operators were also using clocks that were not synchronized with any time standard at all, which means that the times given in the broadcast could easily be off by a minute or so of the actual event.
As it was not uncommon for the time stamps, which is "broadcast" time to differ by minutes from "actual" time on a DPD dispatcher clock, which in turn could differ from the "official" time on the master clock connected to the City Hall System, which in turn could differ from "real" time, there is no way you can rely on the DPD recordings and/or transcripts to get an accurate time.
