Originally, Whaley said he dropped off LHO in the 500 block of N. Beckley. LHO got out, walked across the front of the cab at an angle, southbound. Where would that take him? The El Chico restaurant - where TF White wrote down a certain license plate that was traced to a certain Carl Mather etc.
Whaley later changed destination to 700 block, which fit better with WC timeline that had to get him to 10th and Patton - FAST.
Hey there Joe,
ORIGINALLY he says Neches and Beckley... repeatedly
The man in his cab was just as close to Ruby's apt as Oswald's... what I always wondered was how did the killer and/or Tippit know to be walking down 10th? Other than the neighbors on that street knowing Tippit as "Friendly" the neighborhood cop who was seen quite often around that street, enough so that they believed he may have even lived in the area.....
Any LNer know why Tippit would be so well known on that street, so far from his own beat?
Cheers
DJThe CHAIRMAN.
The witness has been driving a taxicab in Dallas for 36 years.
Mr. WHALEY. Thirty-seven, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Thirty-seven.
Mr. WHALEY.
You name an intersection in the city of Dallas and I will tell you what is on all four corners.
Mr. BALL. Did you stop and let your passenger out on this run on the north or south side of the intersection?
Mr. WHALEY. On the north side, sir.
Mr. BALL. North side?
Mr. WHALEY. Yes.
Mr. BALL. That would be--
Mr. WHALEY. Northwest corner.
Mr. BALL. Northwest corner of Neches and Beckley?
Mr. WHALEY. Northwest corner of Neches and BeckleyMr. WHALEY. No, sir; that is not what I said, but that is the reason I didn't call one at the time and I asked him where he wanted to go. And he said, "500 North Beckley."
Well, I started up, I started to that address, and the police cars, the sirens was going, running crisscrossing everywhere, just a big uproar in that end of town and I said, "What the hell. I wonder what the hell is the uproar?"
And he never said anything. So I figured he was one of these people that don't like to talk so I never said any more to him.
But when I got pretty close to 500 block at Neches and North Beckley which is the 500 block, he said, "This will do fine," and I pulled over to the curb right there. He gave me a dollar bill, the trip was 95 cents. He gave me a dollar bill and didn't say anything, just got out and closed the door and walked around the front of the cab over to the other side of the street. Of course, traffic was moving through there and I put it in gear and moved on, that is the last I saw of him.
Mr. BALL. When you parked your car you parked on what street?
Mr. WHALEY. I wasn't parked, I was pulled to the curb on Neches and North Beckley.
Mr. BALL.
Neches, corner of Neches and North Beckley?
Mr. WHALEY. Which is the 500 block.
Mr. BELIN. Why didn't you put it on your trip sheet for 700 instead of 500 North Beckley?
Mr. WHALEY. Because that is what he told me and that is what I remember when I wrote the trip up. I imagine there were hundreds of trip sheets, because people get off before they get where they are going. But I remember the thing that way.
Mr. BELIN. When did you first ascertain or start thinking about it that it was the 700 block of North Beckley where you let him off?
Mr. WHALEY. Well, when the FBI man got in my cab and he wanted to go over the route.
Mr. BELIN. When was this?
Mr. WHALEY. I don't know the exact date, sir, but it was the next week
Mr. BELIN. In the next week you told the FBI that it was the 700 block?
Mr. WHALEY. No, sir; I don't recall. I know I took him to where I let him out.
Mr. BELIN. You did?
Mr. WHALEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Did you ever tell anyone it was the 700 block of North Beckley?
Mr. WHALEY. No, sir. I left it said just like I had it on my trip sheet. Nobody else asked me about it.
