DONALD WILLIS SAID:
>>> "Obviously, the hulls were found on the ground because the latter's
gun ejected them automatically." <<<
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
So, apparently Don Willis thinks that J.D. Tippit's murderer was firing
bullets from the corner of 10th & Patton, even though we know that Tippit
himself was found lying in the street beside his patrol car, which was
many yards down the road from the corner.
Would Willis now like to pretend that Tippit was really shot at the
corner, but after being shot four times at point-blank range, he managed
to stagger down the street before he finally crumpled to his death?
Awaiting Donald's brilliant explanation regarding his theory that a gunman
fired an automatic at Tippit FROM THE CORNER of Tenth and Patton.
It appears to me as if Donald Willis has really boxed himself into a
tricky and untenable corner when he said this---
"Obviously, the hulls were found on the ground because the latter's
gun ejected them automatically."
Via the above silly theory, Willis has no choice but to discount and
disregard the observations of ALL of the witnesses who saw the shooting
occur on Tenth Street. Willis has to now believe that Tippit's real killer
was shooting from a location where absolutely ZERO witnesses claim to have
seen a gunman.
Via Willis' loony theory, the real killer would have been located
practically right next to William Scoggins, who was sitting in his taxicab
at the corner of 10th & Patton. Yet Scoggins testified that the shooting
occurred many yards up Tenth Street, not right at the corner.
And the other witnesses (Markham and Benavides) also confirm that Tippit's
one and only killer shot Tippit from the sidewalk on 10th Street, with the
shooter firing from across the hood of Tippit's police car.
Or maybe Willis would like to add a new wrinkle to his theory -- maybe he
would like to now claim that Tippit's body and his police car were later
MOVED to a location further up Tenth Street, which is where Car No. 10 was
later photographed.
If a gunman had really fired at Tippit from the corner where two of the
bullet shells were found, here's how far away from Tippit that gunman
would have been (via CE523):
http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/html/WH_Vol17_0128a.htm
Also:
Don Willis' theory has yet another insurmountable problem if he wants to
pretend that an "automatic" pistol was really used to kill Officer Tippit,
and that problem is the fact that two of the bullet shells that werer
later found near the scene of J.D. Tippit's murder were found by Barbara
Davis and Virginia Davis in the SIDE YARD of their apartment building--on
PATTON AVENUE, not on Tenth Street. See page 266 of Dale Myers' book "With
Malice" for an illustration that shows exactly where those two shells were
found.
Which would mean that if the shells were really being fired by an
automatic weapon, then the gunman was either running around the cornwer as
he was firing the gun, or he was somehow able to shoot Tippit from the
SIDE YARD of the Davises' residence, which would mean the killer would
have to shoot THROUGH THE APARTMENT BUILDING in order to hit Tippit, who
was located on Tenth Street.
Obviously what happened was this: Lee Harvey Oswald shot J.D. Tippit with
Smith & Wesson revolver #V510210, and after firing four (or perhaps five)
bullets at Tippit, Oswald ran (or walked briskly) toward the corner of
Tenth & Patton. When he reached the corner, Oswald began to unload the
empty shells from his revolver, with two of the shells falling to the
ground on Tenth Street (very near the corner itself), with the other two
shells coming out of the gun after Oswald had reached the side yard of the
Davis apartment building (again see page 266 of "With Malice").
The above scenario of Oswald's shell-dumping is also perfectly consistent
with the known characteristics of Lee Oswald's V510210 revolver, which is
a gun that would result in bulged (or slightly expanded) cartridge cases
after bullets were fired through the rechambered revolver. Which means the
shells would have a tendency to stick in the chamber, resulting in
additional effort being required by any gunman attempting to manually
remove the shells from the weapon (see page 258 of "With Malice").
This "sticky shells" situation was almost certainly the case with Oswald's
revolver on November 22, 1963, at 10th & Patton, with the shells being a
bit difficult for Oswald to remove from the gun all at once. Hence, there
were two shells found near the corner on Tenth Street, while the other two
shells were found around the corner in the Davises' side yard.
It's also quite possible that the "sticky" nature of Oswald's bullet
shells could be the reason that only four shells were recovered at the
Tippit murder scene (with the possibility exising that Oswald actually
fired five bullets at Officer Tippit, with one bullet missing the target).
If Oswald did, indeed, fire five shots at Tippit (which can never be
proven, of course), instead of just four shots, then it's possible that
the fifth bullet shell was simply lost to history, never having been
recovered by anyone after the shooting.
The above scenario is somewhat buttressed by the testimony of eyewitness
Sam Guinyard, who watched Oswald flee the scene of Tippit's murder from
Ted Callaway's car lot.
Guinyard told the Warren Commission that he saw Oswald "knocking empty
shells out of his pistol", although it's a little unclear as to exactly
where Oswald was located when Guinyard saw him removing the shells. It's
possible Guinyard was only referring to Oswald kicking out shells near the
corner of 10th & Patton. But it's also possible that Guinyard saw Oswald
still in the process of dumping shells out of the gun when Oswald was much
further down Patton Avenue. And if the latter situation is true, then it's
quite conceivable that Oswald could have removed at least one bullet shell
from his revolver when he was near the corner of Patton and Jefferson
Boulevard. And we know that no bullet shells were recovered that far away
from where J.D. Tippit was killed.
http://With--Malice.blogspot.com
http://JFK-Archives.blogspot.com/2011/04/index.html#JD-Tippit