Hey, Steve and Tom. Thanks for your input but I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet.
First of all, there was a relay that I presented before the crash which I will supply in a minute or two.
In that relay Officer 67 (Everett) at around the 12:45 mark specifically asks the Dispatcher - Did they head south? To which the Dispatcher states - Yes. In later transcripts it appears as - Do you want me to head south? To which the Dispatcher gives the same reply.
Dan,
As you know, Unit 67 is Patrolman W. A. Everett
If you look at
CD 1420 p. 171
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11815&search=Mockingbird_Lane#relPageId=172&tab=pageUnit 267 (Patrolman J.H. Caldwell) asks, ?Do you want me to head south??
Dispatcher answers, ?Yes. 12:44 PM?
This is Channel 2 broadcast.
If you scroll back for the previous two pages or so in that Channel 2 transcript, it looks like the police were trying to cordon of a one to two block area around the TSBD. Without knowing where Everett and Caldwell were stationed, it's hard to know if they were talking about responding to Elm and Houston, or if they were talking about that two block cordon.
I owe you an apology of sorts.
See CD 1420 p. 162 Channel 2 transcript
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11815&search=Mockingbird_Lane#relPageId=163&tab=pageIn this transcript, 158 is identified as Patrolman L.S. Davenport at 12:26 PM. He advises Dispatch that everything is OK. Dispatch tells Chief Curry that 158 says everything is OK. The motorcade had just passed Live Oak and was about to cross Lamar. I believe that they were on Harwood at this time.
In my notes, 158 was identified as L.S. Davenport and J.M. Phillips.
J.M. Phillips is listed as operating a radar unit in the Traffic Division Solo Motorcycle and Special Enforcement Monthly Detail
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pdf/WH19_Batchelor_Ex_5002.pdfpage 18. He is in that same group of people as Billy Hargis, B.J. Martin, Marrion Baker, and J.S. Debenport, etc., but he's not listed as a solo motorcyclist, but operating a radar unit. He's in the same group as Debenport, although regularly on different shifts.
I don't find L.S. Davenport listed in Batchelor's Exhibit 5002, nor is any Davenport or Phillips listed in Purdue Lawrence's assignments for the parade route.
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh20/html/WH_Vol20_0256b.htmCould J.S Debenport and J.M. Philiips be sharing the same call sign 158? Could J.S, Debenport have been mistakenly transcribed as L.S. Davenport in the transcripts?
(There is an R.S. Davenport listed as a School Safety Officer in the Batchelor Exhibit 5002 p. 17.)
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pdf/WH19_Batchelor_Ex_5002.pdfCould R.S. Davenport been mistakenly listed as L.S. Davenport in the Channel 2 transcripts?
This is all very confusing. My best guess is that J.S. Debenport was mistakenly transcribed as L.S. Davenport. My main problem at the moment is that neither one was scheduled for traffic control for the motorcade per Purdue Lawrence assignments, so how could 158 be radioing in that everything was OK as the motorcade was traveling down Harwood and Live Oak and Harwood and Lamar?
Steve Thomas
