How Could LHO Walk One Mile After Leaving His Room & Shoot A Cop In 13 Minutes?

[Jerry Freeman]

So you're proposing that Tippit was just clumsy?..... Is that right?....  He simply fell down at the time the shots were fired...

Actually it was reported in several books and interviews that Tippit would look down on the ground when  he was talking to someone.....
https://books.google.com/books?id=IdnhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT67&lpg=PT67&dq=tippit+had+a+habit+of+looking+down&source=bl&ots=eOGoiT7iY9&sig=cWRsfwUXrTcgpD0ZYevrogHetRw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFz967mb7eAhVSeawKHeFwAL0Q6AEwBHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=tippit%20had%20a%20habit%20of%20looking%20down&f=false

[Bill Chapman]

Pretty sure you're the one playing games by bringing up the head shot in a discussion about Benavides.

Point out where I claimed Benavides saw the head shot.

[John Iacoletti]

Point out where I claimed Benavides saw the head shot.

I never said you did.  But you did bring up the head shot in a discussion about what Benavides saw as if it was somehow related.

[Bill Chapman]

I never said you did.  But you did bring up the head shot in a discussion about what Benavides saw as if it was somehow related.

It's related in regards to your statement that "Seeing a policeman fall is not the same thing as seeing the policeman being shot." (Which is the statement to which I was responding)

This was my response:

"Seeing the policeman actually fall down clearly indicates that the shooter would still be looking at the victim and most likely continuing to point the revolver at him, not knowing if his target had been rendered ineffective or not. This seeming fear & uncertainty is confirmed when ProbablyOswald then made sure by shooting the poor dumb cop in the head."

[John Iacoletti]

It's related in regards to your statement that "Seeing a policeman fall is not the same thing as seeing the policeman being shot." (Which is the statement to which I was responding)

Which, as I said, has nothing to do with a head shot that Benavides did not see.

This was my response:

"Seeing the policeman actually fall down clearly indicates that the shooter would still be looking at the victim

??  Are you confusing what Benavides saw with what the shooter saw?

and most likely continuing to point the revolver at him, not knowing if his target had been rendered ineffective or not.

Why "most likely"?

This seeming fear & uncertainty is confirmed when ProbablyOswald then made sure by shooting the poor dumb cop in the head."

"Confirmed" how?  Since the guy we were actually discussing didn't see Tippit being shot in the head, would you care to specify who actually did?

[Bill Chapman]

Which, as I said, has nothing to do with a head shot that Benavides did not see.

??  Are you confusing what Benavides saw with what the shooter saw?

Why "most likely"?

"Confirmed" how?  Since the guy we were actually discussing didn't see Tippit being shot in the head, would you care to specify who actually did?

I'm not trying to confirm Benavides saw a head shot.

Mr. BENAVIDES - Then I heard the other two shots and I looked up and the Policeman was in, he seemed like he kind of stumbled and fell.
Mr. BELIN - Did you see the Policeman as he fell?
Mr. BENAVIDES - Yes, sir.

The head shot seems to indicate that ProbablyOswald wanted to make sure the officer was dead. That has nothing to do with Benavides needing to see the head shot or not.

Heres my post again, with emphasis added, and an edit*

Seeing the policeman actually fall down clearly indicates that the shooter would still be looking at the victim and most likely continuing to point the revolver at him, not knowing if his target had been rendered ineffective or not. This seeming fear & uncertainty [from Oswald*] is confirmed when ProbablyOswald then made sure by shooting the poor dumb cop in the head."

[John Iacoletti]

The head shot seems to indicate that ProbablyOswald wanted to make sure the officer was dead. That has nothing to do with Benavides needing to see the head shot or not.

Then why did you bring that up in a response to what I said about what Benavides saw?

Heres my post again, with emphasis added, and an edit*

Seeing the policeman actually fall down clearly indicates that the shooter would still be looking at the victim and most likely continuing to point the revolver at him, not knowing if his target had been rendered ineffective or not. This seeming fear & uncertainty [from Oswald*] is confirmed when ProbablyOswald then made sure by shooting the poor dumb cop in the head."

That's great.  Do you have any actual evidence that the shooter was still looking at the victim after he fell or that he continued to point the revolver at him, or that he was feeling fear and uncertainty, or that the guy Benavides saw shot the cop in the head, or that it was ProbablyOswald?  Or is that just a nice story you made up to randomly inject into the conversation?