From: willisdonald824@gmail.com   
      
   Why Whaley separates Neely & N. Beckley from "500 block"   
      
   Q:  Why does William Whaley, in the "Four Days in November" video segment,   
   say, "So I carried [Oswald] off across the viaduct, turned left at the 500   
   block of North Beckley, and when I got over on N. Beckley came on the   
   intersection of Neely, North    
   Beckley??  The left turn onto Beckley from the viaduct is at the 1000 block,   
   the block of Oswald's rooming house, not the 500 block.   
      
   A:  Because Oswald improvised a last-minute change of destination.  As   
   recorded in Whaley's manifest, Oswald initially told him to take him to the   
   500 block of Beckley.  But while Whaley was turning left onto Beckley, Oswald   
   saw that there were no patrol    
   cars in front of the rooming house, hence no need for Whaley to travel five   
   more blocks, south to Neely, the actual 500 block on N. Beckley.  So he tells   
   Whaley "This will do fine", and Whaley deposits him there, on the sidewalk   
   opposite the rooming    
   house.  Whaley then, as noted above, thinks that the 1000 block was the 500   
   block, as per Oswald's *original* instruction, because the taciturn Oswald (as   
   Whaley describes him) does not tell him otherwise.     
      
   Hence, also, this exchange at the hearings:   
      
   Ball:  You drove until you reached the 500 block, or not?   
   Whaley:  No, sir.  I didn't drive until I reached the 500 block.  I drove   
   until I reached Beckley & Neely. (4/8/64 testimony)   
      
   Oswald has, no doubt, been kindly informed--probably more than once--that the   
   500 block and Neely are one and the same thing.  But his actual experience is   
   that he let Oswald out at N. Beckley near Neches, the 1000 block--where Oswald   
   said, "This will do    
   fine"--and that that location has been imprinted on his mind.  Hence, the   
   separation, in his mind of "500 block" and "Neely & Beckley".   
      
   Import:  Oswald did not walk back the five blocks to the rooming house from   
   Neely.  He just walked across the street, after Whaley let him out at the (in   
   Whaley's mind) "500 block".  So the timeline for his supposed walk from the   
   rooming house to 10th &    
   Patton is reduced by a corresponding four or five minutes, to about 1:11.  By   
   1:15 or 1:16, then, Oswald is nearing the Texas Theatre, not arriving at 10th   
   & Patton.   
      
   dcw   
      
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