Bowles said they could be off by a minute or two (even three minutes is stretching it). He did not say they could be off by as much as six or seven minutes.
You either believe the timestamps are off by six or seven minutes or you believe that T.F. Bowley lollygagged around for six or seven minutes before jumping on the police radio to report the shooting while Tippit's body was lying in the street bleeding from the head.
Or....
Perhaps I should ask it this way...
Do you accept that Bowley reported the shooting on the police radio at 1:17?
Bowles said they could be off by a minute or two (even three minutes is stretching it). He did not say they could be off by as much as six or seven minutes.Again, nobody claimed he said that. He did however say a few other things.
A master clock on the telephone room wall was connected to the City Hall system. This clock reported "official" time.He doesn't tell us if the City Hall system was a 100% correct or what "official" time was.
Within the dispatcher's office there were numerous other time giving and time recording devices, both in the telephone room and in the radio room. Telephone operators and radio operators were furnished "Simplex" clocks. Because the hands often worked loose, they indicated the incorrect time. However, their purpose was to stamp the time, day and date on incoming calls. While they were reliable at this, they were not synchronized as stated in the Committee report. Therefore, it was not uncommon for the time stamped on calls to be a minute to two ahead or behind the "official" time shown on the master clock.He also doesn't tell us if the time giving devices in the telephone and radio rooms were in sinc with the master clock on the telephone room wall. He only tells us that the clocks were not sunchronized.
When clocks were as much as a minute or so out of synchronization it was normal procedure to make the needed adjustments. During busy periods this was not readily done.I would call the time between Kennedy's murder and Oswald's arrest a pretty busy period. So, here again we don't know if the needed adjustments were in fact made.
And then of course, there is the fact that the recording goes blank for a minute or so just around the time Tippit allegedly was shot. How big the gap really was, we'll never know.
Combined, it provides enough doubt about the accuracy of the timestamps.
You either believe the timestamps are off by six or seven minutes or you believe that T.F. Bowley lollygagged around for six or seven minutes before jumping on the police radio to report the shooting while Tippit's body was lying in the street bleeding from the head.Bowley picked up his daughter from school at 1 PM. I have driven the route Bowley drove between the school and 10th street at various times with light and heavy traffic and the average time came to roughly 1:13. So, Bowley's watch could have been off by three minutes, which is why I don't rely on his 1:10 observation. What I don't believe and never will believe is that Bowley stood around for four minutes and did nothing. See, the argument works both ways!
The timestamps are most certainly off. There is no doubt in my mind about that. Bowley's arrival at 1:13 fits perfectly with Tippit being shot at around 1:10 or 1:11. It does also fit with Markham's timeline for getting to the bus stop, where she - in her mind - needed to be at 1:15. And it also fits with the arrival of the ambulance at the hospital at 1:15 as also confirmed by Detective Daveport who followed the ambulance to the hospital.
Or....
Perhaps I should ask it this way...
Do you accept that Bowley reported the shooting on the police radio at 1:17? Already answered hundreds of times in the past and now again: the answer is NO