Lee Oswald The Cop Killer

[Martin Weidmann]

Isn?t it amazing that they were all equally slow when they?re needed to be.

Indeed....

Bowely had just picked up his daughter from school and was on his way to pick up his wife from work. He must have been acutely aware of the time, as any parent picking up a child from school is. R. L. Thornton School in Singing Hills, where Bowley picked up his daughter "at about 12:55 pm", is around 7 miles or 13 minutes away from 10th street, making it possible for an arrival at 10th street at 1.10 pm

As for Markham, she only had to walk two blocks in about four minutes to get from her home to the bus stop on Jefferson and she did the same thing every day. Markham couldn't possible be talking about the bus scheduled at 1.12 pm, when she estimated she catched the bus at 1.15 pm, because back in those days busses always arrived and departed at exactly the scheduled time, right? Give me a break!

Far better to rely on a voice actived recording device which can easily be manipulated 

Just too bad that the time stamp card from the ambulance service, which could have confirmed the time, has never been produced.....

[Bill Chapman]

But one thing they both saw was Oswald at-the-trot.

You seem to have an amazing confidence in unreliable eye-witnesses.

Callaway ID'd Oswald. Of course you find that unreliable.

[Martin Weidmann]

Callaway ID'd Oswald. Of course you find that unreliable.

I find every identification by an eyewitness unreliable, ever since I once saw a robbery happening just a few feet away from me. It all happened in a few seconds and although I saw the robber from a short distance, I could not honestly describe or identify him with 100% certainty.

[John Iacoletti]

Oh, I get it.

Bowley's watch was 100% correct.

Markham's estimate of what time it was when she left her residence was 100% spot on.

The clock on the wall at Methodist was 100% perfect.

....... and the Dallas police tapes were tampered with.

Got it.

You wouldn?t be stretching things in an attempt to make your point more valid, now would you?

[Martin Weidmann]

You wouldn?t be stretching things in an attempt to make your point more valid, now would you?

Of course he would. 

Markham tells us in her testimony that she left home on 9th street "at a little after one". She only needed to walk two blocks (a distance of about 0,2 mile or roughly 4 minutes) to get to the bus stop at Jefferson. In her testimony she added "I wouldn't be afraid to bet it wasn't 6 or 7 minutes after 1" but even if that estimate was spot on, she still would have arrived at 10th/Patton at around 1.10.

So, in order for her to witness the shooting of Tippit on 10th/Patton at 1.15 pm she would have needed the better part of at least 5 to 10 minutes to cover the distance of one block. And even then, it doesn't add up, as Markham estimated that she usually catched the bus at 1.15 pm, which means that she still could not have been at 10th/Patton to watch the shooting at that exact same time!

However, the bus schedule for Markham's bus allegedly gives arrival times at the Jefferson stop as 1.12 and 1.22. I say "allegedly" because I have never seen a copy of the schedule. Anyway, in order to desperately get Markham at 10th/Patton at around 1.15 pm Bill Brown dreamed up a scenario in which Markham didn't catch a delayed 1.12 bus (perhaps he thinks no busses were ever delayed in those days) at 1.15 but instead (according to Bill) she really took the 1.22 bus every day.

The problem remains of course that Markham said she left home "a little after one" to walk two blocks in about 4 minutes to the bus stop. So what was she usually doing between 1.06 and 1.22, on those days when she did not witness a murder at 1.15?

[John Iacoletti]

Her washateria clock was perpetually slow, and she never noticed.  Probably because the clock at the Eat Well restaurant was chronically slow as well.  That's the ticket.

[Martin Weidmann]

Her washateria clock was perpetually slow, and she never noticed.  Probably because the clock at the Eat Well restaurant was chronically slow as well.  That's the ticket.

On the other hand the machine that time stamped the call for Tippit's ambulance was of course spot on and would show us all that call came in at 1:18.

Too bad that nobody has been able to produce that elusive time stamped card for more than half a decade.