Proof Rosemary Willis had started looking towards the TSBD by Z-145

[Andrew Mason]

I agree with your last sentence. For what it’s worth, here is part of what Tina wrote in the epilogue of her book:

I noticed some minor discrepancies between what I recorded in the oral histories and what I now remember. Going through my files helped make some things more clear. If anyone wonders which is more accurate, I would lean toward my book rather than the oral history.

Frankly, I think that relating the time of the first shot to just after the end of her filming segment is something that she most likely would have been able to do accurately (because our memories are quite often based on those types of associations). However, I think that remembering exactly how much time might have elapsed between the end of her filming segment and the first shot would be much harder to gauge accurately. Therefore she gives a range of 1 or 2 seconds (if that much, aka: or less) in her book. That would place the first shot somewhere close to the Z133 time.

If that was all the evidence as to when the first shot occurred, I might find your point persuasive, although 2 seconds would put it around z150. 

But it isn't.  We have Croft who said that the first shot occurred after he had rewound his camera to take another photo after taking his photo at z161.  Betzner said that he took his z186 just before the first shot was heard.  Mary Woodward said that JFK's last smile and wave began before the first shot.  Witnesses between the lamp post and the Thornton sign said that JFK had just passed by where they were then the first shot sounded. Occupants of the VP car said that their car had just completed the turn when the first shot sounded - it is still turning when last seen in z180.  Occupants of the VP Security car said the first shot occurred as they were completing the turn (along side the TSBD) - it is about there in z191 when last seen.  Jane Berry, the 7th person west of the lamp post near the Thornton sign said that the first shot occurred as the President's car was passing by her.   

So, if one tries to fit Tina Towner's recollection to the rest of the evidence, 4 seconds is a better fit than 2.

[Royell Storing]

  Tina Towner - "Now I was beginning to leave when I heard the sky fall in - the LOUDEST crack of a rifle I HAD EVER HEARD".
                       
                       All of you are assuming Towner heard the Carcano Rifle being fired. Maybe she was hearing the sound of a Different gun/rifle being fired? 

[Andrew Mason]

  Tina Towner - "Now I was beginning to leave when I heard the sky fall in - the LOUDEST crack of a rifle I HAD EVER HEARD".
                       
                       All of you are assuming Towner heard the Carcano Rifle being fired. Maybe she was hearing the sound of a Different gun/rifle being fired?

Others provide evidence of location of the rifle in the sixth floor SN. Dearie Cabell, upon hearing the first shot, looked straight up from where she was facing as her car (next behind the VP security car) entered the intersection and saw a pipe extending out of the sixth floor window. Three men on the floor below also identified the source as a rifle on the floor above them.

So unless you have evidence of a second rifle on the sixth floor other than the one found there, she heard Oswald’s MC.

[Royell Storing]

Others provide evidence of location of the rifle in the sixth floor SN. Dearie Cabell, upon hearing the first shot, looked straight up from where she was facing as her car (next behind the VP security car) entered the intersection and saw a pipe extending out of the sixth floor window. Three men on the floor below also identified the source as a rifle on the floor above them.

So unless you have evidence of a second rifle on the sixth floor other than the one found there, she heard Oswald’s MC.

    Towner said, "...the LOUDEST crack of a rifle I had ever heard". That does Not match up with the sound of a Carcano being fired. Even an M-80 firecracker, (which many of us have used), is far louder than a carcano rifle or a run-of-the-mill firecracker. I believe that when Towner says, "...LOUDEST crack of a rifle I had ever heard", DQ's her describing a carcano or a standard fire cracker.   

[Tommy Shanks]

    Towner said, "...the LOUDEST crack of a rifle I had ever heard". That does Not match up with the sound of a Carcano being fired. Even an M-80 firecracker, (which many of us have used), is far louder than a carcano rifle or a run-of-the-mill firecracker. I believe that when Towner says, "...LOUDEST crack of a rifle I had ever heard", DQ's her describing a carcano or a standard fire cracker.

You're really amazing, you know that? So rather than just use common sense and focus on the LOUD part of Towner's quote, you are straining yourself into a pretzel to add qualifiers to it, and insist that she's somehow "wrong" and heard a "different rifle." There is absolutely ZERO evidence for a second gun having been fired in Dealey Plaza.

[Royell Storing]

You're really amazing, you know that? So rather than just use common sense and focus on the LOUD part of Towner's quote, you are straining yourself into a pretzel to add qualifiers to it, and insist that she's somehow "wrong" and heard a "different rifle." There is absolutely ZERO evidence for a second gun having been fired in Dealey Plaza.

   Have you heard the sound a fired carcano makes? It is nowhere close to, "....LOUDEST Crack of a rifle I had ever heard". And who said anything about, "she's somehow WRONG"? She is describing what she heard. She does not tie a carcano to that sound she heard/described. And, she is describing the 1st shot. The now alleged "early" shot that hit the traffic signal support beam. And in order to support this "early" shot, Towner even moved the position of the JFK Limo on Elm St. There is much more here than merely a "loud shot".   

[Tommy Shanks]

   Have you heard the sound a fired carcano makes? It is nowhere close to, "....LOUDEST Crack of a rifle I had ever heard". And who said anything about, "she's somehow WRONG"? She is describing what she heard. She does not tie a carcano to that sound she heard/described. And, she is describing the 1st shot. The now alleged "early" shot that hit the traffic signal support beam. And in order to support this "early" shot, Towner even moved the position of the JFK Limo on Elm St. There is much more here than merely a "loud shot".

You're simply making things up. Tina Towner was 13 YEARS OLD when President Kennedy was assassinated. Do you honestly expect her to be able to distinguish the variable loudness between different kinds of rifles? And how can you possibly conclude from her statement that she heard a DIFFERENT rifle? This is lunacy.