Oh, Jack Tatum's tale again?
Leaving side the other problems with Tatum's story, Tatum is also Dale Myers' last change-in-direction witness. Tatum said the killer was walking east. This claim is strongly contradicted by the available evidence. Moreover, Tatum did not say the man suddenly turned around. He simply said he thought the man was walking east. The initial police and Secret Service reports on the shooting said the killer was walking west, toward the patrol car, not away from it. Scoggins said the same thing in his first sworn statement. It would appear that Mrs. Markham said the same thing when she spoke with police right after the shooting. Two other witnesses likewise said the killer was walking west, not east, and thus toward the patrol car, not away from it. If the police or the Secret Service found a single witness who said the killer was walking away from the patrol car, they failed to say a word about it in any of their reports. Additionally, not one of the initial sworn statements from any of the eyewitnesses says the killer was walking east or that he suddenly changed direction as the patrol car approached.
But Myers needs this change in direction in order to try to explain why Tippit would have stopped the assailant, especially if the assailant was in fact Oswald. By all accounts, the man was walking along normally. And Myers admits it is unlikely Tippit would have stopped the man on the basis of the vague description that went out over the police radio.
"Did Oswald Shoot Tippit?"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_j_022lJYli3B5Xyw8wLs-0nl6mDLo2t/view
