Let's see if there is anybody who can help Bill Brown to pinpoint the moment when Callaway had time to help load Tippit into the ambulance
before making his radio call, as Bill claims he did.
When I asked Bill this question he refused to answer and said he had made his case, so others can now make up their mind. That made me curious and wanting to go over this again, to see if there is anybody who agrees with Bill and can explain, in detail, why....
On page 11 of this thread, Bill posted this YouTube video;
It provides the audio recordings of the DPD radio over a much longer period of time than the one Bill and I were discussing, so I provided a timeline (obtained by placing the mp3 of the YouTube recording in a software program called Wavelab), which looked like this;
The key times are:
57:28:67 Bowley starts his call
58:14:42 Bowley ends his call (being told to stay of the radio)
58:24:35 Ambulance 602 calls Code 5 (en route)
58:41:85 Ambulance 602 calls Code 6 (for wrong location at Jefferson)
58:48:40 Ambulance 602 asks dispatcher for address on Jefferson - Dispatcher replies: 501 Tenth Street
59:02:85 Ambulance 602 calls Code 6 (for arrival at Tippit scene)
59:30:99 Ambulance 602 tries to get attention of the dispatcher by calling "602"
59:40:98 Callaway starts his call
59:42:85 Ambulance 602 tries again to get the attention of the dispatcher by calling "602"
We know for a fact that Callaway had not yet arrived at the scene when Bowley finished his call. We also know that he arrived on the scene shortly before the ambulance did. This means that Callaway must have arrived at the scene between 58:14:42 and 59:02:85.
We also know that Callaway said that when he arrived at the scene, he first went to check on the victim before he went to the police car to use the radio. He made his call at 59:40:98, which is roughly 38 seconds after the Code 6 call by the ambulance, at 59:02:85.
Although this can not be said with 100% certainty, it's highly likely that when Butler made the Code 6 call, he was still driving the ambulance towards the location. The alternative would be that he first stopped the ambulance and then made the Code 6, but that would only mean a loss of possibly valuable seconds.
So, if Butler did indeed make his Code 6 call at 59:02:85, it would have taken him - I assume - another 10 to 15 seconds to stop the car, near the victim, and get out of the ambulance.
Butler told George and Patricia Nash that he went to check on the victim. When he saw that it was a police officer he returned to the ambulance to let the dispatcher know that the victim was a police officer. In his book, Myers, accepts this actually happened and so did Bill earlier in this thread. The audio timeline shows this call (the first unanswered "602") took place at 59:30:99, so roughly 28 seconds after the Code 6 call.
Only 10 seconds later, at 59:40:98, Callaway makes his radio call, during which Butler made his second "602" call.
So, the question is; when exactly did Callaway have the oppertunity to help load Tippit into the ambulance, during the 38 seconds that elapsed between the ambulance's code 6 call at 59:02:85 and Callaway's call at 59:40:98?
When considering if there was a window of opportunity, it should be taken in consideration that;
(1) the arrival call for the ambulance, at 59:02:85, was probably made when the ambulance was still driving. Parking it near to the victim could easily have taken 10 seconds or so, and
(2) when Callaway made his call, he first had to get into the car, which also reduced the window of opportunity by, at least, several seconds.
I really would appreciate feedback, especially from LNs who can be relied upon to support Bill Brown, about exactly when they think Callaway had the opportunity to help load Tippit into the ambulance before he made his call.
