06-08-2021, 11:51 PM
Leavelle's 11/22 Supplementary Offense Report defined the first day frame-up, based on information from five witnesses: Markham, Benavides, Callaway, Guniyard & Scoggins. All furnished affidavits that day with the exception of Scoggins who spoke with Leavelle by phone and furnished an affidavit the next day.
This limited Leavelle's scenario to two bullets, but he had not kept abreast of the day's events. Tippit's corpse had three serious wounds and a fourth shot hit a button. As the news filtered back to DPD the Davis women were mustered to locate the pair of spent shells planted in their yard. This necessitated redirecting the fugitive diagonally across their front yard and out through the shrubbery.
Both Davis women gave affidavits to this effect 11/22 but the news did not sink in immediately. The Secret Service's curious 12/1 report of the Tippit murder adhered to the two shot scenario despite including the Davis women in the list of "WITNESSES TO THE SHOOTING." Benavides & Guinyard were both deleted from this list, the former presumably because his affidavit had already been discarded and the latter for unknown reasons. In a startling development busdriver McWatters was added to the list despite being stuck in traffic downtown.
Either the authors did not digest the Davis affidavits or failed to reckon with the information provided by Poe & Jez. Simple arithmetic would have produced the obvious conclusion that four shots were fired across the hood, consistent with Dr. Rose's autopsy conducted at 3:15PM 11/22.
The wrapper is already coming off Leavelle's tight frame-up -- a disappearing affidavit, a nutty cab chase, planted shells & two flight paths for one runner.
This limited Leavelle's scenario to two bullets, but he had not kept abreast of the day's events. Tippit's corpse had three serious wounds and a fourth shot hit a button. As the news filtered back to DPD the Davis women were mustered to locate the pair of spent shells planted in their yard. This necessitated redirecting the fugitive diagonally across their front yard and out through the shrubbery.
Both Davis women gave affidavits to this effect 11/22 but the news did not sink in immediately. The Secret Service's curious 12/1 report of the Tippit murder adhered to the two shot scenario despite including the Davis women in the list of "WITNESSES TO THE SHOOTING." Benavides & Guinyard were both deleted from this list, the former presumably because his affidavit had already been discarded and the latter for unknown reasons. In a startling development busdriver McWatters was added to the list despite being stuck in traffic downtown.
Either the authors did not digest the Davis affidavits or failed to reckon with the information provided by Poe & Jez. Simple arithmetic would have produced the obvious conclusion that four shots were fired across the hood, consistent with Dr. Rose's autopsy conducted at 3:15PM 11/22.
The wrapper is already coming off Leavelle's tight frame-up -- a disappearing affidavit, a nutty cab chase, planted shells & two flight paths for one runner.