Of course Robert's was guessing, the only people required to have an accurate time piece were the officials at the time, and from the Dallas Police through to the Ambulance and even Scoggins' dispatcher, all their times corroborate each other, whereas virtually every civilian Tippit time witness prefaces their time estimate with either "about" or "approximately".
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and even Scoggins' dispatcher, all their times corroborate each other, whereas virtually every civilian Tippit time witness prefaces their time estimate with either "about" or "approximately". Well, let's have a closer look at what Scoggins testified;
Mr. SCOGGINS. The policeman. I was excited when I heard them shots, and I started to get out-- since we went back over there the other day and reenacted that scene, I must have seen him fall as I was getting out of my cab, because I got out of the cab, and in the process of getting out of the cab I seen this guy coming around, so I got out of sight. I started to cross the street, but I seen I didn't have enough time to cross the street before he got down there, so I got back behind the cab, and
as he cut across that yard I heard him running into some bushes, and I looked up and seen him going south on Patton and then when I jumped back in my cab I called my dispatcher.Now let's compare this with the known facts. Benavides said that he stayed in his truck until Tippit's killer had disappeared on Patton street. In one of the videos posted by Bill Brown somebody walked the distance from the location of Tippit's car to the corner of 10th and Patton and timed it as around 30 seconds. But let's be generous and make it double that, so 1 minute.
We know from the witnesses that Tippit's killer cut across the front lawn of the Davis sisters and jumped over a hedge to get to Patton. Scoggins saw him do that and saw him run down Patton. He then jumped back in his taxi and called his dispatcher.
So, if the dispatcher was right and 1:23 was the correct time for that call it would mean that Tippit was shot roughly one minute prior to that at 1:22, which of course is total BS because even the WC had (incorrectly) Tippit being declared DOA at around 1:22.
So much for Scoggin's dispatcher.