Re: In which Sgt. Hill shoots himself in the foot with an automatic

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 4:42:22 PM UTC-4, donald willis wrote:
> On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 6:44:55 PM UTC-7, Bud wrote: 
> > On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 8:38:09 PM UTC-4, donald willis wrote: 
> > > On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 7:05:05 PM UTC-7, Hank Sienzant (AKA Joe Zircon) wrote: 
> > > > On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 6:13:18 PM UTC-4, donald willis wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 CUT ene."
> > > 
> > > You're still forgetting this, from the same exchange: 
> > > 
> > > dcw: "Conveniently, you're forgetting the testimony of Hill, Poe, and 
> > > Benavides. All three testified that they had either seen or heard that the 
> > > suspect was throwing down shells as he left the scene. Throwing them down, 
> > > MANUALLY. Tell me how you "assume the automatic part" from that!" 
> > > 
> > > In 1964, that was all we had, from the Hearings. How do you get from the 
> > > Hill/Poe/Benavides tale to "automatic 38"? According to that testimony, 
> > > shells were not just seen at the scene, but the gunman was seen THROWING 
> > > them down. 
> > This alone makes it impossible that an automatic was used.
> That "automatic 38" nullifies the testimony.

   Wrong. The evidence nullifies the idea that an automatic was used.

> > > You assume that Hill "heard about .38 shells left at the scene". He 
> > > testified only that he heard about shells THROWN DOWN at the scene... 
> > Did he hear about the throwing down before or after he went on the 
> > radio?
> Myers in "With Malice" quotes Benavides, "I guess [the cops] were going to 
> walk off & leave them, not knowing [the shells] were there." Myers 
> himself continues, "There is only one time period Benavides could be 
> referring to. At about 1:36pm, a posse of Dallas police officers left the 
> murder scene & drove to the Oak Cliff library...." (pp259, 260) So, yes, 
> according to Benavides & Myers, the former had several minutes to pass 
> that information on to officers. And it had to have been before 1:41, the 
> time of the Hill transmission, since Hill got the information from Poe, 
> who got it from Benavides. 

  So Hill could have heard that from witnesses that Oswald threw the 
shells down after he made the "automatic" transmission.
 
> dcw