Friends, researcher Mr. Michael Kalin has been drawing attention to an interesting thing about Mr. Bill Brown's guru, Mr. Dale Myers.
In With Malice, Mr. Myers gives us the following:
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In 1983, Jack Tatum provided this account of the final moments of Tippit’s death:
“The man acted as if he was going to leave, and hesitated, and went back around behind the squad car, back up toward the front, where the officer was laying. He didn’t walk back, he hurried back, and cautiously approached him, and then shot him again — in the head. I’d say it was six seconds — not more than ten seconds, I don’t think, between the initial gunshots and when he shot him the second time. After shooting the officer in the head, the man hesitated — he stopped, and looked around briefly, looked toward the lady up there on the corner, Mrs. Markham — and looked up in my direction. And I was right there, right past the intersection, and it was only about a half a block — and he started a slow trot, or kind of a hurried run, in my direction. I thought he was coming after me, so I put my car in gear and moved forward, away from the gunman.”
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In 2018 Mr. Myers offered an eyebrow-raising 'clarification' on his blog (italics & underscore added by me):
'The paraphrased quote attributed to Tatum in my book, "With Malice" [page 71 (1998 Edition) and page 123 (2013 Edition)] is inaccurate, having survived an early draft of the book in which John Moriarty's speculation about the Tippit head wound influenced my rendering of Tatum's comments about the same. The phrase " - in the head" should have been in brackets or outside the quotation, as it was a qualifier to what Tatum actually said. Same for the phrase: "After shooting the officer in the head..."'
So-------------------the quotation should have read as follows:
“The man acted as if he was going to leave, and hesitated, and went back around behind the squad car, back up toward the front, where the officer was laying. He didn’t walk back, he hurried back, and cautiously approached him, and then shot him again — in the head. I’d say it was six seconds — not more than ten seconds, I don’t think, between the initial gunshots and when he shot him the second time. After shooting the officer in the head, the man hesitated — he stopped, and looked around briefly, looked toward the lady up there on the corner, Mrs. Markham — and looked up in my direction. And I was right there, right past the intersection, and it was only about a half a block — and he started a slow trot, or kind of a hurried run, in my direction. I thought he was coming after me, so I put my car in gear and moved forward, away from the gunman.”
So let's get this straight. Mr. Myers saw fit to offer his own 'rendering' (i.e. CHANGED VERSION) of a direct quotation from a witness in order to insert his own latest belief into the witness' mouth. And now he's taking this alien element out because it no longer suits his propagandistic Warren Gullible agenda.
Friendly advice: be VERY careful in handling any report from Mr. Myers of his interview with a witness, unless and until he releases audio of that interview. By his own confession, he has form in the department of improving on what they say. And the lord alone knows how many times he has applied this system in the other direction: NOT including inconvenient things they HAVE told him. There's never not an agenda here.
Like I say, this guy is guru to our own Mr. Bill Brown!
