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Offline Joe Mannix

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Re: Oak Cliff Time Trials
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2024, 08:40:19 PM »
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Offline Bill Brown

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« Reply #17 on: October 03, 2024, 09:59:01 PM »
Great post Bill.  Nothing like going back to the actual scene.  A couple of points stand out to me.  Oswald was certainly acting as though he believed that he could already have been identified as a suspect by the time he is in the cab.  Getting out of the cab a distance away confirms that.  He had good reason to do so since he knew he was already a person known to the FBI as a political nut.  For all he knew, they had connected the dots.  A police officer had already pulled a gun on him.  He was missing from the crime scene - his place of work.  He had good cause to believe the authorities were on to him.  That has implications for shooting Tippit.  Oswald can't identify himself to Tippit if he thinks that he is already a suspect.  He has to shoot him before it gets to that point.  In addition, Oswald's options were limited for escape.  He doesn't have much money.  No car.  What does he know?  The bus system.  Where has he recently gone on a bus?   Mexico.  Where is the only place that he could conceivably get asylum?  Cuba.  Where has he been trying to get to for months for before the assassination?  Cuba.   Put them all together and the most logical avenue available to Oswald is to take a bus to Mexico, try to get to the Cuban or Russian embassy and ask for asylum.   Of course, that's a longshot fantasy on his part but there was no other option.  I think Oswald had already accepted the likely outcome of his death or arrest in the commission of the act.  After the Tippit encounter, he is just moving in any direction still available and ducking into the TT to get off the street is not a bad idea.  He just should have paused to buy a ticket.   Like James Earl Ray, it is not impossible that Oswald might have made it out of the country in those days.  I can't see Oswald toughing it for long in Mexico but he would be beyond the direct jurisdiction of the American authorities making it more difficult to find him.

Great points, Richard.  I agree with everything you said above.
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Re: Oak Cliff Time Trials
« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2025, 08:08:48 PM »
Cool story, bro. And you deserve props for conducting the experiment, but surely you realize that it doesn’t prove anything about anything. It’s mainly an exercise in estimating things to fit what you already believe.

I do have to point out a few problems with your story though. The devil is always in the details.

- Myers has no way of knowing the exact time to the second that Bowley tried to get on the radio.
- Whaley’s trip log says he picked up his passenger at 12:30.
- The traffic would have been very different for Whaley’s reconstruction.
- Whaley originally said he dropped his passenger off at the 500 block of N Beckley.
- Roberts said Oswald was in his room 3 or 4 minutes.
- There is no evidence whatsoever that the man Tippit spoke to “reversed direction”.
- Burt said in his 12/26/63 affidavit that he saw the man enter the alley from Patton Street.
- There is no evidence for what time the ambulance was dispatched from the Dudley-Hughes Funeral Home.
- Robert Brock never said he saw Oswald.
- Postal never said she saw anybody approaching from the East, and certainly never said that she saw Oswald. When Brewer approached her she said “what man?”, and said that she was looking the other direction.

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Offline Bill Brown

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Re: Oak Cliff Time Trials
« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2025, 09:30:38 PM »
Cool story, bro. And you deserve props for conducting the experiment, but surely you realize that it doesn’t prove anything about anything. It’s mainly an exercise in estimating things to fit what you already believe.

I do have to point out a few problems with your story though. The devil is always in the details.

- Myers has no way of knowing the exact time to the second that Bowley tried to get on the radio.
- Whaley’s trip log says he picked up his passenger at 12:30.
- The traffic would have been very different for Whaley’s reconstruction.
- Whaley originally said he dropped his passenger off at the 500 block of N Beckley.
- Roberts said Oswald was in his room 3 or 4 minutes.
- There is no evidence whatsoever that the man Tippit spoke to “reversed direction”.
- Burt said in his 12/26/63 affidavit that he saw the man enter the alley from Patton Street.
- There is no evidence for what time the ambulance was dispatched from the Dudley-Hughes Funeral Home.
- Robert Brock never said he saw Oswald.
- Postal never said she saw anybody approaching from the East, and certainly never said that she saw Oswald. When Brewer approached her she said “what man?”, and said that she was looking the other direction.


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- Roberts said Oswald was in his room 3 or 4 minutes.

Roberts also said Oswald was back in his room NOT OVER 3 or 4 minutes.  In addition, she stated that he was back in his room just long enough to grab a jacket and put it on.  How long does it take you to grab a jacket and put it on?  I can do it in less than a minute and I have no super powers.


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- Burt said in his 12/26/63 affidavit that he saw the man enter the alley from Patton Street.

Burt told Al Chapman in 1968 that he and Bill Smith were in the front yard of the house on the corner of Tenth and Denver, one block east of Tenth and Patton.  Upon hearing the shots, they looked down the street.  Smith said he saw Tippit fall to the ground and the killer run from the scene.  Burt said they went to the scene and hung out there for a few minutes before deciding to go off in search of the killer (they had seen him turn south onto Patton).  Burt told Chapman that at the point when they were halfway down Patton, they looked west in the alley and saw the guy almost down at the next block.

Burt saw the killer in the alley and assumed that the killer fled south on Patton and then into the alley.  But, we know the killer fled all the way down Patton to Jefferson and then west on Jefferson for a block before going behind the Texaco station.  The rear lot of the Texaco station butts up against the alley and this is when Burt and Smith saw the guy in the alley behind the Texaco.


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- There is no evidence for what time the ambulance was dispatched from the Dudley-Hughes Funeral Home.

For what it's worth, George & Patricia Nash were given a copy of the trip ticket by JC Butler.  They stated that the time was 1:18.  Butler confirmed that he gave them a copy of the ticket.


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- Postal never said she saw anybody approaching from the East...

No.

Postal saw the guy.  She said he was just off the sidewalk and had a panicked look on his face.

The rest of your above statements don't warrant a response.

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« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2025, 02:02:03 AM »
Roberts also said Oswald was back in his room NOT OVER 3 or 4 minutes.  In addition, she stated that he was back in his room just long enough to grab a jacket and put it on.  How long does it take you to grab a jacket and put it on?  I can do it in less than a minute and I have no super powers.

I doesn't matter what you can do.  Roberts said 3 or 4 minutes.

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Burt told Al Chapman in 1968 that he and Bill Smith were in the front yard of the house on the corner of Tenth and Denver, one block east of Tenth and Patton.  Upon hearing the shots, they looked down the street.  Smith said he saw Tippit fall to the ground and the killer run from the scene.  Burt said they went to the scene and hung out there for a few minutes before deciding to go off in search of the killer (they had seen him turn south onto Patton).  Burt told Chapman that at the point when they were halfway down Patton, they looked west in the alley and saw the guy almost down at the next block.

Why would you prefer something Burt said 5 years later to what he said in 1963?  Do you apply that standard to any other witness?

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But, we know the killer fled all the way down Patton to Jefferson and then west on Jefferson for a block before going behind the Texaco station.

No, "we" don't know that.

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For what it's worth, George & Patricia Nash were given a copy of the trip ticket by JC Butler.  They stated that the time was 1:18.  Butler confirmed that he gave them a copy of the ticket.

It's not worth much.  The ticket either exists or it does not.

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Postal saw the guy.  She said he was just off the sidewalk and had a panicked look on his face.

When Brewer asked her if she sold a ticket to "that man", she asked "what man?"  Why would she ask that if she had just seen somebody with a panicked look on his face duck in? And why wouldn't she have stopped him and made him buy a ticket?  She also testified that she had stepped out of the box office and went to the front and was facing west at the time.  Did she have eyes in the back of her head?

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Offline Bill Brown

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« Reply #21 on: January 09, 2025, 07:01:35 AM »
I doesn't matter what you can do.  Roberts said 3 or 4 minutes.

Why would you prefer something Burt said 5 years later to what he said in 1963?  Do you apply that standard to any other witness?

No, "we" don't know that.

It's not worth much.  The ticket either exists or it does not.

When Brewer asked her if she sold a ticket to "that man", she asked "what man?"  Why would she ask that if she had just seen somebody with a panicked look on his face duck in? And why wouldn't she have stopped him and made him buy a ticket?  She also testified that she had stepped out of the box office and went to the front and was facing west at the time.  Did she have eyes in the back of her head?


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I doesn't matter what you can do.  Roberts said 3 or 4 minutes.

"Just long enough, I guess, to go in there and get a jacket and put it on." -- Earlene Roberts


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Why would you prefer something Burt said 5 years later to what he said in 1963?  Do you apply that standard to any other witness?

Burt's early statement to the FBI is an obvious lie.  Even you should be able to realize that when reading it.
But if we're taking all FBI reports at their word, then Oswald carried a package that morning that was three feet in length by six inches wide.  Right?


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No, "we" don't know that.

Sure we do.  Sam Guinyard, Ted Callaway, Harold Russell, Warren Reynolds, Pat Patterson and LJ Lewis all watched the man with the gun go to the corner of Patton and Jefferson and then turn right (west) onto Jefferson.


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It's not worth much.  The ticket either exists or it does not.

Point being, the Nashes saw it, Butler confirms they saw it... and they said it was 1:18.


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When Brewer asked her if she sold a ticket to "that man", she asked "what man?"  Why would she ask that if she had just seen somebody with a panicked look on his face duck in? And why wouldn't she have stopped him and made him buy a ticket?  She also testified that she had stepped out of the box office and went to the front and was facing west at the time.  Did she have eyes in the back of her head?

Nonsense.

Postal said the guy was just off the sidewalk with a panicked look on his face.

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Re: Oak Cliff Time Trials
« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2025, 07:05:56 PM »
"Just long enough, I guess, to go in there and get a jacket and put it on." -- Earlene Roberts

"He went on to his room and stayed about 3 or 4 minutes." -- Earlene Roberts

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Burt's early statement to the FBI is an obvious lie.

Why would Burt lie about that?

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Sure we do.  Sam Guinyard, Ted Callaway, Harold Russell, Warren Reynolds, Pat Patterson and LJ Lewis all watched the man with the gun go to the corner of Patton and Jefferson and then turn right (west) onto Jefferson.

What makes you think Burt saw the same guy?

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Point being, the Nashes saw it, Butler confirms they saw it... and they said it was 1:18.

Unsubstantiated double hearsay.  The slip either exists or it does not.

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Nonsense.

Postal said the guy was just off the sidewalk with a panicked look on his face.

Nonsense.  Postal was facing the other way at the time and she said "what man?"

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« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2025, 10:09:08 PM »
Nonsense.  Postal was facing the other way at the time and she said "what man?"

Postal saw Oswald whether you like it or not...

"Johnny asked me if I sold that man a ticket.  I asked him what man.  He said that man that just ducked in here.  I told him no, I didn't, but I had noticed him as he ducked in here." -- Julia Postal

Postal then called the police...

"The officer asked me if the man fit the description of the suspect.  I told him I didn't know because I hadn't heard the description of the suspect.  I told the officer that I would describe the man to him and that he could take it from there." -- Julia Postal

Mr. BALL. The last time you had seen him before he ducked in, he was just standing outside of the door, was he?
Mrs. POSTAL. No, sir; he was still just in----just off of the sidewalk, and he headed for the theatre.

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« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2025, 10:09:08 PM »