What's the value of a dime?

[Tom Scully]

Agent Bookhout's report (11/23, dictated 11/24, typed up 11/25) has Mr Oswald putting it at "approximately 85 cents"

I guess this has been ingrained in my subconscious, the alleged complaint about the nickel, "tip".

https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death7.htm
ATTACHMENT 20-2  DALLAS MORNING NEWS
DECEMBER 19, 1965

2-CAR SMASHUP KILLS OSWALD TAXI DRIVER
Dallas Man, 83, Also Dies in Crash on Trinity Viaduct
By James Ewell

...The fare was 95 cents.  Whaley later said, "If you can call a
nickel a tip, I guess he tipped me."
   A drizzling rain was falling when the cars collided Saturday.
Lt.Cmdr. Barnes, 32, is a fighter pilot who had come to Dallas for a
weekend of reserve training at Dallas Naval Air Station.
   Whaley was also a Navy reservist, attached to the air wing
staff at the Naval Air Station.  Barnes is attached to naval Reserve
Fighter Squadron 703 at the air station.
   Sheriff's deputies said identification cards found on the
injured man indicate that Barnes is an attorney...

[Walt Cakebread]

Agent Bookhout's report (11/23, dictated 11/24, typed up 11/25) has Mr Oswald putting it at "approximately 85 cents"

Agent Bookhout's report (11/23, dictated 11/24, typed up 11/25) has Mr Oswald putting it at "approximately 85 cents"

C'mon Mr Ford ....You know that Lee wouldn't have told them that the fare was "APPROXIMATELY "85 cents....( Thomas Kelley recorded that Lee told Fritz the fare was 85 cents...Not APPROXIMATELY 85 cents. ) 

Surely you can see that Bookhout was attempting to make it look like Lee was lying, and he didn't know he exact fare.

This should reveal something for you....   Bookhout and Fritz were trying to cast doubt on Lee's account.....  and trying to prop up Whaley's tale.

[Walt Cakebread]

I guess this has been ingrained in my subconscious, the alleged complaint about the nickel, "tip".

Tom is there a better and more detailed account of the collision that killed Bill Whaley ?.....  Call me skeptical but I find it a little hard to believe that a very experienced driver like Whaley would die in a collision.    Was Whaley driving the taxi at the time and did he have a passenger?     I don't know why, but I immediately thought of General Patton's  death in a collision when I read about Whaley's death.

[Walt Cakebread]

I guess this has been ingrained in my subconscious, the alleged complaint about the nickel, "tip".

Was Whaley driving his cab at the time of the collision?    Was the 83 year old man who also was killed,  his passenger? 
Who was at fault?

[Richard Smith]

Tom is there a better and more detailed account of the collision that killed Bill Whaley ?.....  Call me skeptical but I find it a little hard to believe that a very experienced driver like Whaley would die in a collision.    Was Whaley driving the taxi at the time and did he have a passenger?     I don't know why, but I immediately thought of General Patton's  death in a collision when I read about Whaley's death.

Don't forget James Dean and Jayne Mansfield.  The fact that so many people, including famous people, have died in automobile accidents can only mean that Oswald was framed.  It's all coming together.

[Walt Cakebread]

Agent Bookhout's report (11/23, dictated 11/24, typed up 11/25) has Mr Oswald putting it at "approximately 85 cents"

On page  626 of the WR, is the report of Secret Service inspector Thomas Kelley who was present at a 11-23- interrogation session of Lee Oswald.  Kelly wrote:....   "In response to questions put by Captain Fritz, Oswald said that immediately after having left the building where he worked, he went by bus to the theater where he was arrested; that when he got on the bus he secured a transfer and thereafter transferred to other buses to get to his destination". ----------------------- Fritz asked him if he had ridden in a taxi that day, and Oswald then changed his story and said that when he got on the bus he found that it was going too slow and after two blocks he got off the bus and took a cab to his home; that he passed the time with the cab driver and that the cab driver had told him that the president was shot. He paid a cab fare of 85 cents.


after having left the building where he worked, he went by bus to the theater

He went by bus to the theater

[Walt Cakebread]

On page  626 of the WR, is the report of Secret Service inspector Thomas Kelley who was present at a 11-23- interrogation session of Lee Oswald.  Kelly wrote:....   "In response to questions put by Captain Fritz, Oswald said that immediately after having left the building where he worked, he went by bus to the theater where he was arrested; that when he got on the bus he secured a transfer and thereafter transferred to other buses to get to his destination". ----------------------- Fritz asked him if he had ridden in a taxi that day, and Oswald then changed his story and said that when he got on the bus he found that it was going too slow and after two blocks he got off the bus and took a cab to his home; that he passed the time with the cab driver and that the cab driver had told him that the president was shot. He paid a cab fare of 85 cents.


after having left the building where he worked, he went by bus to the theater

He went by bus to the theater

after having left the building where he worked, he went by bus to the theater


They desperately needed to expunge Lee's statement that he took a bus to the theater....because If he was on a bus at the time that JD Tippit was shot, then obviously he was not the man who shot JD Tippit.   

The evidence of the spent shells at the scene, plus the reports of the eyewitnesses indicate the the man who shot Tippit was NOT armed with a S&W revolver.     The shells were found widely scattered, and the witnesses said the killer removed ONE SHELL AT A TIME.  The shells are removed all at the same time from the cylinder of a S&W revolver....NOT one at a time.