JFK Assassination Forum

MTG continues to ignore the inconvenient truth of JBC's arm flip beginning at Z226. That last for 9 frames. Roughly a half a second. Are we supposed to believe that is an illusion too. What does he suppose caused that arm flip. We'll have to keep guessing what MTG things about that because he won't address it.

Tge time pieces that Markham and Bowley relied on were never compared with a reference or were even read/transcribed coorectly.

Humm, well, the previous supposedly definitive analysis of the timing of the Tippit shooting, i.e., Dale Myers' "stop-watch" analysis in his book With Malice, says that Oswald did not have time to walk to 10th and Patton in time to shoot Tippit and theorizes that Oswald got a ride from an unknown person. Myers says Tippit was shot at 1:14:30, but you say he was shot between 1:15 and 1:16.

Is there a reason you failed to mention that T. F. Bowley said he arrived at the Tippit scene at 1:10 and that he knew this because he checked his watch when he got there? That's an important fact to omit, wouldn't you say?

Is there a reason you failed to mention that Helen Markham said she got to the Tippit scene no later than 1:08 and that Tippit had already been shot when she arrived? This is why she was certain Tippit was shot at 1:06 or 1:07. Markham said she always left her apartment at 1:00 to catch her regular 1:12-1:15 bus. She said she glanced at the laundry room clock after she left her apartment and that it read 1:04. She said it took her about two minutes to reach 10th and Patton.

Is there a reason you failed to mention that Domingo Benavides said that he did not try to use the police car's radio until "a few minutes" after Tippit had been shot because he was (quite understandably) afraid for his life?

You guys claim that Benavides waited in his truck for only a matter of seconds and not for a few minutes. But this flies in the face of common sense and ignores what Benavides himself initially said. If you were only 25-50 feet away from a shooting and feared you could be the next target, how long would you wait until coming out into the open? Nobody in their right mind would have come out of hiding so quickly in that situation.

Benavides told the WC he waited in his truck for "a few minutes" after he heard the shots and before he tried to use the police car's radio. Moreover, according to fellow witness Ted Calloway, Benavides told him the day after the shooting that

When I heard that shooting, I fell down into the floorboard of my truck and I stayed there. It scared me to death.

Years later, Benavides changed his story and told CBS he only waited a few seconds, not a few minutes. Predictably, you guys choose to accept Benavides' belated change of story and reject his original statements.

Two witnesses at the Texas Theatre, Butch Borroughs and Jack Davis, independently said that Oswald entered the theater before 1:10, and that he remained in the theater until he was arrested.

You place great emphasis on the police dispatch transcripts, but even Dr. Paul Hoch, one of the most careful scholars in the JFKA research community, acknowledged there is evidence the police dispatch tapes were edited, which renders the transcripts useless for determining when Tippit was shot. BTW, Dr. Hoch doubted the authenticity of the transmissions that supposedly explain why Tippit was in Oak Cliff in the first place, far out of his area.

I discuss Dr. Hoch's research at length in my article "Did Oswald Shoot Tippit?," available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_j_022lJYli3B5Xyw8wLs-0nl6mDLo2t/view.

Is there a reason you failed to mention that T. F. Bowley said he arrived at the Tippit scene at 1:10 and that he knew this because he checked his watch when he got there? That's an important fact to omit, wouldn't you say?

Is there a reason you failed to mention that Helen Markham said she got to the Tippit scene no later than 1:08 and that Tippit had already been shot when she arrived? This is why she was certain Tippit was shot at 1:06 or 1:07. Markham said she always left her apartment at 1:00 to catch her regular 1:12-1:15 bus. She said she glanced at the laundry room clock after she left her apartment and that it read 1:04. She said it took her about two minutes to reach 10th and Patton.

You guys claim that Benavides waited in his truck for only a matter of seconds and not for a few minutes. But this flies in the face of common sense and ignores what Benavides himself initially said. If you were only 25-50 feet away from a shooting and feared you could be the next target, how long would you wait until coming out into the open? Nobody in their right mind would have come out of hiding so quickly in that situation.

Two witnesses at the Texas Theatre, Butch Borroughs and Jack Davis, independently said that Oswald entered the theater before 1:10, and that he remained in the theater until he was arrested.

Sorry, but this story perfectly illustrates the point. People who want something other than a straight forward explanation will seize on every little anomaly to claim things aren't what they seem. Everyone in the house that night had been drinking heavily, including Reeves. He went upstairs and a short time later, the people downstairs heard the gunshot. They immediately went upstairs and found Reeves lying on the bed with a gun at his feet. There was no evidence to indicate this was anything but a suicide. Not surprisingly, the inebriated witnesses didn't recall the evening in the same way but that's hardly an indication of anything but that this was a suicide. It's people trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

The Guardian article made some silly claims. One was that the $2500 a week Reevers made for 13 weeks wasn't much to live on for a whole year. In 1953, you could live large on $32,500 a year. That equates to over $400K in today's money. The show ran for six seasons so Reeves should have had a good chunk of change saved up. Other than he Superman series, Reeves had not exactly been an accomplished actor. He did have minor roles in two  of the biggest movies of all time, Gone With the Wind and From Here to Eternity. He did a number of guest roles on other TV programs during the 1950s and was a semi-regular performer on the Kraft Theater, but producers weren't exactly beating down his door to offer him work. His last credited role other than Superman was a guest spot on I Love Lucy in 1957.

Nobody will know why Reeves took his own life. There are lots of reasons people resort to suicide and they aren't always about career failures or fractured relationships although either of these could have played role in Reeves decision. We'll never know.