JFK Assassination Forum

Regarding the visible part of your "single car" between "Purse Lady" and "Fedora Man" at the 1:47 mark in Weigman, why is its "lower" front part "two-tone" color-wise but the rear part monochrome, why does the "lower" front part have two parallel and nearly horizontal dark lines about two feet apart whereas the rear part doesn't, and why does the top edge of dark color of the front part taper off in the middle of your "single car" the way it does?

Shadows from the oak tree?

What are you quibbling about now?

[...]

Let me mention one simple conundrum, put forward by Dale Myers and supported by Bill Brown.

In the past Bill and I have discussed that Helen Markham said in her testimony that she took her daily bus to work from the Jefferson bus stop at 1.15 PM. That may well be an estimate or a generalization, as far as I am concerned. Bill correctly pointed out that the FBI determined that the bus schedule showed arrivals of the bus at 1.12 and 1.22 (as if buses were never delayed) and that Markham thus must have taken the 1.22 bus. What Bill never did (to the best of my knowledge) is argue that Markham actually normally arrived later than 1.15 at the bus stop.

Fair enough, I suppose, but it still places Markham at the Jefferson bus stop at 1.15, when Bill thinks that Tippit was shot at around 1.14. The FBI determined that walking one block, between 10th and Jefferson took about 2,5 to 3 minutes. So, for Markham to get to the bus stop at 1.15 she would have had to pass by the 10th and Patton crossing between 1.12 and 1.13 at the latest.

Now, here's the problem; according to Dale Myers, Markham arrived at the crossing of 10th and Patton just when Tippit's patrol car passed by (at 1.12 or 1.13?). We know that Tippit was well passed [sic] the crossing when he stopped his killer. We know there was a short conversation between Tippit and the killer after which Tippit got out of the car and was shot. So, the question now becomes, what was Markham doing standing around at the crossing to watch Tippit being killed if she had to catch her bus to work? Wouldn't one expect that she would simply carry on walking in order to get to the bus stop on time?

I think you're full of Jim DiEugenio's pungent beans.