From: willisdonald824@gmail.com   
      
   Whaley's "Neches" wrecks Warren Report's Oswald/Tippit timeline   
      
   Apparently, the Warren Commission panicked when witness William W. Whaley went   
   off-script, on 3/12/64, and testified that he dropped Oswald off at "Neches   
   and North Beckley".  (In his 11/23/63 affidavit, Whaley mentions only "500   
   block of North Beckley".   
   )  That would have screwed up the official eta of Oswald at 10th & Patton of   
   1:16. (Warren Report p158)  As the WR says, "Neches is within one-half block   
   of the rooming house at 1026 N. Beckley where Oswald was living." (WRp162)   
    That would, in fact,    
   seem to have been an ideal spot for Oswald to get out of the cab--not right in   
   front of the house, but close, as Norman Redlich here acknowledges.  Close   
   enough perhaps, that is, for Oswald to see without being seen.  The   
   Commission--which had all the    
   time in the world--went so far as to recall Whaley, who capitulated and now   
   said that he left Oswald off at "the intersection of Beckley and Neely"   
   (4/8/64 testimony p429), at (as per the WR p158) 12:54.  That would have   
   meant a walk of about 6 minutes    
   to get to the rooming house. (WR pp158, 163)  Then another 3 minutes before   
   departing, arriving at 10th & Patton about 1:16. (WRp158)  A 13-minute walk.   
    However, Whaley's blundering, out-of-left-field reference to "Neches" throws   
   that timeline a bit    
   out of whack.  Dutifully, he retains "Beckley" through it all, from affidavit   
   to testimony to corrected testimony.  But as a cab driver, he must have known   
   that Neches and Beckley did not actually intersect--certainly he did know by   
   11/22/63.  In fact,   
    that might have been where Oswald actually instructed him to go, Neches near   
   Beckley.  How else would Whaley have latched on to "Neches"?  To reconstruct   
   the adjusted timeline:  Out of cab 12:54 on Neches.  Rooming house 12:55.   
    Leaving rooming    
   house 12:58.  10th & Patton 1:11.   
      
   Leaving Oswald patiently waiting around for Tippit to show up, four or five   
   minutes later.  However, no witness saw the gunman do any such waiting, just   
   walking.   
      
   Revised, adjusted timeline, then, for Oswald:  Leaving rooming house 12:58.   
    Arriving Texas Theatre 1:16.  No stopovers.   
      
   dcw   
      
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