Post by John Duncan on Sept 16, 2022 11:57:37 GMT -5
The Jacket And The Lies Of Oak Cliff
By Donald Willis 5/22
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1. "[Ted Callaway] asked me [Domingo Benavides] which way [the gunman] went". (V6, p.452)
"There were approximately 6 to 8 witnesses [including Benavides], ALL telling officers that the subject was running west in the alley between 10th & Jefferson"-- Poe-Jez Report.
"An unidentified witness [Benavides] gave Officer J.M. Poe 2 empty hulls in an empty cigarette pack & stated...that the suspect reloaded the gun as he ran across the church lawn"-- 11/11/63 Poe-Jez Report.
"A witness said he saw the gunman last at the Abundant Life Temple at 10th...400 block"-- Sgt. G. Hill (police radio 1:44).
In 1964, Benavides--after 4 months silence--testified that the suspect went "down Patton St. toward the office". But some of the early police references suggest otherwise (see above), that Benavides must have told Callaway "north" or "east" rather than "west". Anything but "west"! And a second witness concurs: "We [W.W. Scoggins & Callaway] cruised an area north of 10th St. looking for the man I had seen...."(Scoggins' SS affidavit 12/2/63) In other words, the suspect was seen running down the alley to the north of the parking lot (read: jacket). Then, further north, past the church on 10th St. North, not south.
In the first 10 days after J.D. Tippit was shot, then, an apparent escape route for the shooter was all alley/church/10th St./north.
The Warren Commission apparently did not have access to the Poe-Jez Report. If they had, they certainly would have asked about it. The Dallas Police Department (DPD) seems to have cherry picked the evidence for the Commission. Here, the better to allow Benavides to come up with an entirely different story. Took him four months.
2. Of course, the DPD did not just cherry pick evidence, they also manufactured it, after the fact. One instance: Benavides' revised story. Another: Warren Reynolds' revised story. Reynolds, witness to another apparent escape route, west on Jefferson, an unlikely switch from side streets to a main street. Unlikely for someone you'd think would be trying to lie low. Reynolds told the Commission that he "had assumed the [the suspect] just cut through the parking lot". Manufactured? You bet. On 11/22, he had a different story to tell. In film footage discovered long after the Commission broke up, he is shown telling police officers that he last saw the suspect enter an old house ("With Malice" p. 131). Two other purported witnesses to this alternate escape route: Robert and Mary Brock. The latter--in an FBI interview 1/21/64--"advised she informed [Reynolds and Pat Patterson] that [the suspect] proceeded north behind the Texaco station" (WM, p. 551). In 1964, she could say that, with impunity. But after the WFAA-TV footage was discovered, her story was kaput. Tellingly, no mention of the house in the Brocks' respective FBI interviews or Reynolds' testimony. The assassination gang did its damnedest to connect the shooter, physically, with the discarded jacket, but couldn't quite bring it off.
Someone, it seems, may have brought his own gun to Oak Cliff (perhaps an automatic--that's what Officer Summers' 1:37 witness, perhaps Callaway, said). But the trail effectively ends on Jefferson, just west of Patton, with the Brocks, Reynolds, and Patterson now eliminated from the real scenario.
3. Nor did our gang want anyone even bringing up the alley end of the Benavides-sponsored escape route. Thanks to Poe and Jez, however, we know the names of four of the "6 to 8"--the report cited Benavides and Mrs. Markham, and, in his testimony, Poe mentions the Davises. A fifth such witness--Jimmy Burt--told the FBI [12/15/63] that he saw the suspect entering the alley off Patton. Apparently, Dale Myers thought that no one would bother to read his book's appendices, which includes the Poe-Jez Report and also Burt's FBI interview. In the text, he cites only a 1968 interview, in which Burt rewrote his story to say that he and William Smith did not see the suspect until he was in the alley "down almost to the next street". Myers selectively and duplicitously adds, "The gunman had just entered the alley adjacent to the parking lot...." (WM, p. 90) Actually, Burt had originally said that he "saw the man running into an alley located between 10th & Jefferson on Patton". And he could see him only "when he was close enough to see to the south" and the alley. But Myers gets what he wants from an interview conducted years later.
Note: I must admit that I had always thought, until now, that the lanunae in Benavides' story--an apparent, long-lost 11/22/63 affidavit (WM, p. 449) and the four-month-plus gap between 11/22 and his 4/2/64 Commission testimony--had more to do with types of bullets (automatic or revolver) than with a jacket.
In sum: The A-Gang got one suspect as far as Jefferson, but not quite to the parking lot and the jacket. So close. And another suspect--perhaps the actual perp--passed the lot on his way north, but Benavides never (that we know) said anything about his actually going into the lot and ditching a jacket. And with Benavides, and perhaps other witnesses, hot on his heels, he's not going to go one way (south), remove the jacket, toss it, then go the other way (north). The shooter and the person who dropped the jacket were not the same person.
dcw
By Donald Willis 5/22
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1. "[Ted Callaway] asked me [Domingo Benavides] which way [the gunman] went". (V6, p.452)
"There were approximately 6 to 8 witnesses [including Benavides], ALL telling officers that the subject was running west in the alley between 10th & Jefferson"-- Poe-Jez Report.
"An unidentified witness [Benavides] gave Officer J.M. Poe 2 empty hulls in an empty cigarette pack & stated...that the suspect reloaded the gun as he ran across the church lawn"-- 11/11/63 Poe-Jez Report.
"A witness said he saw the gunman last at the Abundant Life Temple at 10th...400 block"-- Sgt. G. Hill (police radio 1:44).
In 1964, Benavides--after 4 months silence--testified that the suspect went "down Patton St. toward the office". But some of the early police references suggest otherwise (see above), that Benavides must have told Callaway "north" or "east" rather than "west". Anything but "west"! And a second witness concurs: "We [W.W. Scoggins & Callaway] cruised an area north of 10th St. looking for the man I had seen...."(Scoggins' SS affidavit 12/2/63) In other words, the suspect was seen running down the alley to the north of the parking lot (read: jacket). Then, further north, past the church on 10th St. North, not south.
In the first 10 days after J.D. Tippit was shot, then, an apparent escape route for the shooter was all alley/church/10th St./north.
The Warren Commission apparently did not have access to the Poe-Jez Report. If they had, they certainly would have asked about it. The Dallas Police Department (DPD) seems to have cherry picked the evidence for the Commission. Here, the better to allow Benavides to come up with an entirely different story. Took him four months.
2. Of course, the DPD did not just cherry pick evidence, they also manufactured it, after the fact. One instance: Benavides' revised story. Another: Warren Reynolds' revised story. Reynolds, witness to another apparent escape route, west on Jefferson, an unlikely switch from side streets to a main street. Unlikely for someone you'd think would be trying to lie low. Reynolds told the Commission that he "had assumed the [the suspect] just cut through the parking lot". Manufactured? You bet. On 11/22, he had a different story to tell. In film footage discovered long after the Commission broke up, he is shown telling police officers that he last saw the suspect enter an old house ("With Malice" p. 131). Two other purported witnesses to this alternate escape route: Robert and Mary Brock. The latter--in an FBI interview 1/21/64--"advised she informed [Reynolds and Pat Patterson] that [the suspect] proceeded north behind the Texaco station" (WM, p. 551). In 1964, she could say that, with impunity. But after the WFAA-TV footage was discovered, her story was kaput. Tellingly, no mention of the house in the Brocks' respective FBI interviews or Reynolds' testimony. The assassination gang did its damnedest to connect the shooter, physically, with the discarded jacket, but couldn't quite bring it off.
Someone, it seems, may have brought his own gun to Oak Cliff (perhaps an automatic--that's what Officer Summers' 1:37 witness, perhaps Callaway, said). But the trail effectively ends on Jefferson, just west of Patton, with the Brocks, Reynolds, and Patterson now eliminated from the real scenario.
3. Nor did our gang want anyone even bringing up the alley end of the Benavides-sponsored escape route. Thanks to Poe and Jez, however, we know the names of four of the "6 to 8"--the report cited Benavides and Mrs. Markham, and, in his testimony, Poe mentions the Davises. A fifth such witness--Jimmy Burt--told the FBI [12/15/63] that he saw the suspect entering the alley off Patton. Apparently, Dale Myers thought that no one would bother to read his book's appendices, which includes the Poe-Jez Report and also Burt's FBI interview. In the text, he cites only a 1968 interview, in which Burt rewrote his story to say that he and William Smith did not see the suspect until he was in the alley "down almost to the next street". Myers selectively and duplicitously adds, "The gunman had just entered the alley adjacent to the parking lot...." (WM, p. 90) Actually, Burt had originally said that he "saw the man running into an alley located between 10th & Jefferson on Patton". And he could see him only "when he was close enough to see to the south" and the alley. But Myers gets what he wants from an interview conducted years later.
Note: I must admit that I had always thought, until now, that the lanunae in Benavides' story--an apparent, long-lost 11/22/63 affidavit (WM, p. 449) and the four-month-plus gap between 11/22 and his 4/2/64 Commission testimony--had more to do with types of bullets (automatic or revolver) than with a jacket.
In sum: The A-Gang got one suspect as far as Jefferson, but not quite to the parking lot and the jacket. So close. And another suspect--perhaps the actual perp--passed the lot on his way north, but Benavides never (that we know) said anything about his actually going into the lot and ditching a jacket. And with Benavides, and perhaps other witnesses, hot on his heels, he's not going to go one way (south), remove the jacket, toss it, then go the other way (north). The shooter and the person who dropped the jacket were not the same person.
dcw