Re: Was. W.W. Scoggins the only witness at 10th and Patton who actually
John Corbett <[email protected]> 7 Apr 2021 03:03:34 -0000
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On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 3:40:42 PM UTC-4, donald willis wrote: > On Monday, March 29, 2021 at 5:35:03 PM UTC-7, John Corbett wrote: > > On Monday, March 29, 2021 at 7:27:20 AM UTC-4, donald willis wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 2:25:03 PM UTC-7, John Corbett wrote: > > > > On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 9:07:49 AM UTC-4, donald willis wrote: > > > > > On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 1:0 CUT es as to > > > > make her account of the event almost worthless. > > > True, but she seemed genuinely torn between two different versions of > > > events. > > Which is why it makes no sense to pay any attention to what she said. > > > Jeanette Davis on the > > > > other hand, older and obviously much more level headed, was very > > > > consistent in her description of the event, both in her original affidavit > > > > and WC testimony. > > > Except that in her affidavit, she said the shell was found in her front > > > yard; in her testimony, she said side yard. > > Her affidavit said no such thing. > "Then the police arrived. I showed one of them where I saw this man emptying his gun and we found a shell." > > Such thing. > She didn't say where the shell was > > found. She said she saw Oswald cutting across her front lawn emptying his > > gun. He dumped the shells as he was going around the corner of the house > After he went around the corner. No shells found at the "corner of the > house". , > > passing from the front yard to the side yard. For you to try to find > > significance in such minutia shows how desperate you are to make your case > > with no real evidence to support it. > Unless you get the "minutia" correct you can't really say anything! > > > She described hearing a shot, going to the front door, > > > > hearing Markham scream to call that police and seeing Oswald cutting > > > > across the corner of their yard on his way to Patton, emptying the shells > > > > as he did. There is nothing ambiguous about her testimony. Yet you want to > > > > latch on to the testimony of a ditzy young girl and present that as > > > > evidence of a cover up. No wonder you can't get the right answer. > > > > > Virginia Davis > > > > > > was 16 years old and a bit of a ditz. She went back and forth as to > > > > > > whether they called the police before or after going to the front door. It > > > > > > would make no sense that they would have called the police before going to > > > > > > the front door because they would have had no reason to. > > > > > If the Davises heard Markham screaming "Call the police!"--after the two > > > > > heard shots--it would make sense that they'd call the police before > > > > > venturing out into a shooting scene. > > > > Now you are just making up hypotheticals. Neither one of them described > > > > that as the way it happened. Both said they went to the door and then > > > > heard Markham scream call the police. > > > Yes, but you know that Virginia occasionally had another version of when > > > they saw the suspect: > > Back to the ditz. If she keeps changing her story as to the sequence of > > events, why would you put any stock in anything she said? > > > Mr. BELIN. Well, let me try and reconstruct your actions then. > > > You heard the shots? > > > Mrs. DAVIS. Yes, sir. > > > Mr. BELIN. You ran to the door? > > > Mr. BELIN. What did you see when you got to the door? > > > Mrs. DAVIS. Well, we just saw, you know, the police car parked down there > > > and we wondered what was going on, so we heard Mrs. Markham across the > > > street calling. > > > Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do? > > > Mrs. DAVIS. Well, she told us to call the police, well, so we went to the > > > house. > > > We was already in the house, and we went to the phone and called the > > > police. (v6p460) > > > Mrs. DAVIS. Well, she told us to call the police, well, so we went to the > > > house. > > > We was already in the house, and we went to the phone and called the police. > > > Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do? > > > 460 > > > Mrs. DAVIS. Then we went back to the front door. > > > Mr. BEI.IN. Then what did you do? > > > Mrs. DAVIS. We saw the boy cutting across the street. > > > > > The called the > > > > > > police because Markham told them the cop had been shot and they saw > > > > > > Oswald crossing their yard while emptying the shells from his gun. > > > > > > > > > > > > This is why Hank told you to follow the consistencies > > > > > Okay, pal. Follow this one: Four or five witnesses (out of six) said > > > > > that the Dealey shooter shot from a wide-open window. Climb aboard the > > > > > Consistency Express. Oh, you can't? > > > > > > > > > "Wide open" is a very imprecise description. The witnesses were very > > > > consistent in saying the shooter was on the 6th floor. No ambiguity there. > > > Nor in their "wide open", parse it as you will. So much for > > > "consistency", eh? > > > > > They were very consistent in placing the shooter on the 6th floor which is > > what matters. It doesn't really matter how wide open the window was. > Unless you're looking for the truth. > The > > physical evidence was all found on the 6th floor. > Shells are very transportable. > None was found on the > > fifth floor. > Not after Fritz got done there! > Three TSBD employees said they were occupying the windows on > > the fifth floor and we have photographs showing two of them right below > > the sniper's nest. Of course you are willing to dismiss all of that > > because of the very non-specific description of what they meant by "wide > > open". > No. The Dillard wide angle photo was obviously re-done. > I've never encountered a man who was as intent on deceiving himself as you are.