T.F. Bowley, A Wind-Up Wristwatch & 1:17

[Bill Brown]

The first report on the shooting by Merriman Smith/UPI was sent out by UPI at 12:34. Smith, riding in the fourth car behind the presidential limo, said after hearing the shots that he grabbed the radio telephone from Jack Bell, the AP reporter riding with him, and contacted the UPI offices. He gave his report to the UPI Division Editor, Jack Fallon, and asked him to read it back to him. Fallon said that due to the static on the phone he asked Smith to repeat it three times.

Next, UPI bureau Staff Editor Don Smith typed out the first bulletin while Fallon talked, or tried to, with Smith. The bulletin was then handed to teletype operator Jim Tolbert, who keyed the words onto perforated paper tape that fed the teletype machines where it then went out to the various news organizations around the country.

So how much time is that between Smith hearing the last shot, calling it in, connecting with his editor, giving his report, having it checked, and then going out over the teletype? Four minutes? Three? Two? If the Hertz clock was off it wasn't by much. Unless one wants to argue the UPI clock was also well off.



Story details: https://www.upi.com/Archives/2003/11/14/UPIs-Pulitzer-winning-coverage-of-JFK/4008667018804/

Great point, Steve.

[John Mytton]

In which we learn that because a wrong like double murder was committed in the past it is not a big deal.  Poor Oswald.  So many people are still picking on him.  Hitler and Jack the Ripper must welcome this interpretation of history.  Everyone should just leave them alone and get over it.  It happened in the past.  HA HA HA.  Comedy gold.

Martin's reply says a lot about the cold, twisted thinking processes of a Conspiracy Theorist, and in direct contrast, the perverted irony that 60 years later, people like Martin still fight with every fiber of their existence for Oswald's innocence, Go Figure!
Then without any human sympathy, go on to claim that caring about family members, many of which are still alive today, should be seen as a forgotten relic of the past??

JohnM

[Zeon Mason]

That’s a biased opinion from JohnM about the nature/mind of conspiracy theorists (imo) 🙃