Lee Oswald The Cop Killer

[Walt Cakebread]

There's no positive identification of Oswald in that clip.

 https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4904439/user-clip-domingo-benavides-interview

You're right, Otto....  In fact Benavides simply refers to Tippit's killer as " This other guy"   Even though Benavides, at the time of the interview,  knew full well that The WC had pronounced Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone nut killer.

Please note in the interview that Benavides clearly says that the killer turned and walked away and he was unloading his gun as he walked away.
Benavides says that the killer had TWO empty shells in his hand and Benavides saw him toss the spent shells into the bushes. 

There is no way Benavides could have known that the killer had two spent shells in his hand ....unless B saw the killer eject the two shells.....

Thus, Benavides is describing the action of unloading a revolver that was NOT NOT a Smith & Wesson....    And therefore Lee Oswald could not have been the gunman......   Lee Oswald allegedly had a S&W revolver in his possession at the time of his arrest in the Texas Theater, and Benavides DESCRIBED the action of the killer and he was unloading a revolver that was NOT a S&W.

[John Iacoletti]

What part of "I don't give a flying f*** what you think" did you not understand?

Probably about as much as I give a flying f*** about what you think.  That didn't stop you from rudely claiming that misinformation is "perfectly acceptable in your book", when I was the one who corrected the misinformation.

[Jerry Freeman]

What on Earth are you blabbering on about, that was a completely different witness. Why would Johnie Reynolds testify anyway? He didn't see anything! He just reported to the FBI that his brother Warren, had:

Then why did the FBI interview him in the first place?...I believe to get another "Oswald did it" into the books.
  The Warren Commission produced witnesses who had nothing to report. For example ..Doris Burns---
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/burns.htm
Ms Burns testified to witnessing absolutely nothing of any importance.

[Walt Cakebread]

Then why did the FBI interview him in the first place?...I believe to get another "Oswald did it" into the books.
  The Warren Commission produced witnesses who had nothing to report. For example ..Doris Burns---
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/burns.htm
Ms Burns testified to witnessing absolutely nothing of any importance.

I disagree.....Doris Burns testified that Mr Wilson was standing behind the window of his office in the SE corner,  on the third floor, of the TSBD DURING the shooting.....  Tom Dillard's photo shows that Doris Burns is correct, because Mr Wilson can be seen behind the window in Tom Dillard's photo.   IOW...Dillard took his photo DURING the shooting, NOT AFTER, and there is nobody visible behind the sixth floor window.

[Jerry Freeman]

Tom Dillard's photo shows that Doris Burns is correct, because Mr Wilson can be seen behind the window in Tom Dillard's photo.   IOW...Dillard took his photo DURING the shooting, NOT AFTER, and there is nobody visible behind the sixth floor window.

Not that I doubt this singular revelation and don't wish to drift too far off topic....The Commission could not possibly have realized this particular disclosure [first I have heard of it] and I would like to see that Dillard photo if it can be found and posted

[Walt Cakebread]

Not that I doubt this singular revelation and don't wish to drift too far off topic....The Commission could not possibly have realized this particular disclosure [first I have heard of it] and I would like to see that Dillard photo if it can be found and posted

The Commission could not possibly have realized this particular disclosure

Ah but they did recognize that Mr Wilson and Doris Burns had vital information.....  That's why they questioned Ms Burns.....

[John Iacoletti]

I disagree.....Doris Burns testified that Mr Wilson was standing behind the window of his office in the SE corner,  on the third floor, of the TSBD DURING the shooting.....

No she did not.

[Bill Brown]

So Bill. Using your assumed timeline, and I think it's pretty accurate, then we can also make the assumption that the shooter was approached by Tippet at approximately 1:13pm. Keeping in mind that there was a discussion between the shooter and Tippet that maybe took a minute, maybe more, and then there was the actual shooting that maybe took 15 to 30 seconds. So if Tippets car approached the shooter at 1:13PM, the REAL question would be could Oswald have been able to walk from the rooming house to the shooting scene by 1:13PM. Given what the housekeeper gave as the time that Oswald left the rooming house, I'm not so sure that he could have made it to the scene in that amount of time on foot alone.

Hi Dale.  I don't recall if I responded to this post or not.  This thread got caught up in a lot of political debate for many pages.

In my opinion (based on eyewitness descriptions), Tippit and Oswald carry on a conversation for less than thirty seconds.  The shooting itself probably took less than five seconds (and is therefore irrelevant when discussing a timeline).

Ted Callaway is at the patrol car reporting the shooting at 1:19 and his description of his actions tells us that he's at that patrol car probably three minutes after the shots rang out.