I never "assume[d] the time checks on the dictabelt recordings must be correct." I've said that any clock in common use back in those days could generally be assumed to only be within five minutes of standard time. I amended that to -3/+1 minutes for DPD channel one, because you can reference it to channel two and channel two to other independently set clocks like the Hertz billboard, Kellerman's watch, Sorrels' watch, and Powers' watch. It's really more like -2/+0, but I'm feeling generous.
Really, you had to completely misrepresent what I said?
When he said "When clocks were as much as a minute or so out of synchronization it was normal procedure to make the needed adjustments." Also see the testimony of Frances Cason, who worked as a telephone operator in the dispatch center: "And when we find these errors in these clocks this way, someone in the office usually adjusts them to where they all are stamping the same time. It doesn't happen very often that they get out of time, but sometimes they do."
Not two clocks. Five. I can spot you one if you want to believe that the SS agents kept their watches in sync. But that's still four independent clocks in agreement.
At some point, the regression towards the meaning far beyond being just some phrase that you don't understand.
The Dudley Hughes data as reported by the Nashes, as has already been discussed.
When he said "When clocks were as much as a minute or so out of synchronization it was normal procedure to make the needed adjustments."Yes, but he also said that when it was busy that was not always done. When Kennedy was shot it was busy.
Besides, Bowles made it very clear that the clocks used by the dispatchers did not give real time to begin with.
They actually did not match the master clock (which gave "official" time), which in turn did not give real time either.
The Dudley Hughes data as reported by the Nashes, as has already been discussed.All the Nashes said in their article was that the Dudley Hughes dispatcher had stamped a time card with 1:18 for the call. They did not see that card nor has that card ever surfaced. For all intent and purposes it only "exists" in the Nash article.
In other words, they tell us in their article something that's been told to them, which makes it double hearsay. And even worse, there is not a shred of evidence that confirms that the clock used by the dispatcher was accurate. This entire "time stamp card" business is nothing but hot air.
