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No affidavits, official statements, or witness testimonies explicitly place Billy Lovelady and William Shelley on or very near the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) steps approximately 25 seconds after the final shot
Dear dan o'meara,
Did anyone other than Shelley and Lovelady place Shelley and Lovelady on the steps about 25 seconds after the final shot?
Mr. BALL - You heard the shots. And how long after that was it before Gloria Calvary came up?
Mr. LOVELADY - Oh, approximately three minutes, I would say.
Mr. BALL - Three minutes is a long time.
Mr. LOVELADY - Yes, it's---I say approximately; I can't say because I don't have a watch; it could.
Mr. BALL - Had people started to run?
Mr. LOVELADY - Well, I couldn't say because she came up to us and we was talking to her, wasn't looking that direction at that time, but when we came off the steps--see, that entrance, you have a blind side when you go down the steps.
Mr. BALL - Right after you talked to Gloria, did you leave the steps and go toward the tracks?
Mr. LOVELADY - Yes.
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Mr. Ball. Do you have any idea how long it was from the time you heard those three sounds or three noises until you saw Truly and Baker going into the building?
Mr. Shelley. It would have to be three or four minutes I would say because this girl that ran back up there was down near where the car was when the President was hit.
Mr. Ball. She ran back up to the door and you had still remained standing there?
Mr. Shelley. Yes.
Mr. Ball. Going to watch the rest of the parade were you? [LOL!]
Mr. Shelley. Yes.
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Why did Lovelady and Shelley conflate the Darnell-Couch / Mark Tyler-determined 25 seconds with three minutes?
If Lovelady and Shelley were so spaced out that 25 seconds seemed like three minutes to them, it's no surprise that they forgot that they had spoken with Calvery at-or-near the "island" about fifteen seconds after the final shot and had taken off for the railway yard from there.
-- Tom