You can say that the witnesses may have have been wrong about

Comment on John F. Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories by pio.

you can say that the witnesses may have have been wrong about the time but if that were the case you would think they would all give very different times but this is not the case .

willam whalley the cab driver who drove oswald and earlene roberts his landlady independently gave a time of about 1.00pm ,whalley dropping oswald off a few blocks from his rooming house at 12.58 and roberts saying he arrived home at 1.00 or a little later ,the time roberts says oswald came home is consistant with the distance he had to walk from where whalley dropped him off and his rooming house .

jeannette davis in her sworn affidavit said she heard shots shortly after 1.00 ,sam guinyard said he heard shots about 1.00 ,ted calloway said he was working and at 1.00 he heard shots .thats another 3 people independently giving the same time of 1.00 or just after ,roger craig and helen markham independently gave a time of about 1.06 .

craig said while on the 6th floor of the book depository an officer came up and said a police oficer has been shot in oakcliff (you have to factor in the time it took the officer between getting the report of the officer being shot and leaving the command center and arriving on the 6th floor ,so again this is consistant with a time of 1.00 and slightly after for the shooting .

markham left home at 1.00 and was going to get her bus which left at 1.12 (this was her regular walk to the bus to go to work )she said she had walkeda few blocks when she saw the officer being shot ,she estimated the time as about 1.06 ,again this is consistent with tippit being killed at a time just after 1.00 .

hugh aynesworth is the only reporter in the United States to have been at all four major scenes (the assassination, the Tippit killing immediately after, the arrest of Oswald in the Texas Theater, and the murder of Oswald in the police basement). When I praised Mr. Aynesworth for this and suggested that perhaps he should have been considered for the Pulitzer Prize (rather than Mr. [Merriman] Smith whom Mr. Aynesworth claims does not deserve the prize as another Dallas reporter did all his, Smith’s, writing for him), Mr. Aynesworth modestly admitted to an oversight on the part of the committee, but continued to speak at great length over his four unique experiences. When I asked Mr. Aynesworth how and when he first heard about Tippit, he replied: “I was standing near the Texas Book Building, all the other reporters had gone to Parkland (Hospital), but I felt a story was breaking near the building, when I heard a squad radio blast out that a policeman had been shot in Oak Cliff. This was around one o’clock. I ran to the car and went with it to Patton and Tenth. I had a hunch that the policeman’s murder was tied in with the assassination. I got to the Tenth Street area about 1:05, no later than 1:10 p.m. …” [1]

Years later, Aynesworth gave author Larry Sneed additional details. [2] He was at the police command post at the corner of Houston and Elm with Inspector Herbert Sawyer, Sgt. Calvin Owens, Sgt. Gerald Hill, Assistant District Attorney Bill Alexander, and news reporter Jim Ewell. As Gerald Hill urged Sawyer to get the crime lab over to the Texas School Book Depository, the police radio traffic was interrupted: “This is a citizen. A policeman’s been shot! He’s hurt pretty bad, I think!” The citizen then gave the location.

If Tippit was shot at precisely 1:00 p.m. and Aynesworth heard the unknown citizen’s call twoto three minutes later, then Craig’s time of 1:06 represents the time that it took for a messenger from the command post on the street to reach the search party on the sixth floor.

The unknown citizen’s call at 1:02 or 1:03 does not appear in the transcript of police radio messages. On the audio recording at precisely 1:02 there is 30 seconds of noise, indicating an erasure. About a minute later, at 1:03, the dispatcher attempted to reach Tippit and got no response.

After receiving the call, Hill, Alexander, and Owens promptly left for Oak Cliff. Aynesworth went with WFAA-TV newsmen Ron Reiland and Vic Robertson in the Channel 8 cruiser. Reiland drove the cruiser recklessly, making a lot of fast moves to pass other cars and barreling through intersections as fast as he could go, using an illegal flashing light accessory to warn other drivers. These details show how the three newsmen managed to reach the scene of the crime between 1:05 and 1:10. Aynesworth statement to Martin agrees with that of T.F. Bowley who arrived at the scene at about the same time. He noted the time as 1:10 on his watch.

now we have more people giving a time thats consistant with tippit being killed a little after 1.00 ,tippit in all likely hood was killed some time around 1.04 as the dispatcher called him at this time repeatedly he never answered the dispatcher at this time or after ,the reason sadly is that he had left his car and was being shot .at this time oswald was standing at the bus stop outside his rooming house over a mile and 15 minutes walk away .