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Originally Posted by turbonium
I have looked at the transcript, which includes the following...
Mr. Lane. Well, would you say that he was stocky?
Mrs. Markham. Uh, he was short.
Mr. Lane. He was short.
Mrs. Markham. Yes.
Mr. Lane. And was he a little bit on the heavy side?
Mrs. Markham. Uh, not too heavy.
Mr. Lane. Not too heavy, but slightly heavy?
Mrs. Markham. Oh, well, he was, no he wasn't, didn't look too
heavy, uh-uh.
Mr. Lane. He wasn't too heavy, and would you say that he had rather
bushy hair, kind of hair?
Mrs. Markham. Yeh, just a little bit bushy, uh huh.
Mr. Lane. It was a little bit bushy.
Mrs. Markham. Yes.
(Emphasis mine)
She said he was short, not too heavy, and his hair was a little bit bushy.
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Wow... leading the witness anyone?
She seems really suggestible to me, at least based on this. Rather than ask what his hair looked like, she was given ONE choice and selected from those options.
As for the limo driver slowing and turning around, did that happen before or after the bullet struck the window frame. I would think that a sudden, load 'crack' on the window might have made the driver look around and maybe see what hit the window. He may not have realized it was a bullet at that point. Granted, his reactions were<n't> the best looking back at it, but human error seems more reasonable than to say he was involved and driving slowly to make it easier.
I'd always thought that this was a publicity trip. Get out there, show your face sort of thing. Tough to do ripping through the city at 70 mph in a closed car. If the driver was driving too slow to make the shot easier, why didn't anyone in the car tell him to get a move on? Surely if the Predisent says, "go faster", a reply of "no, wait, hold on" would have seemed a bit
suspicious after the fact.
edit to insert the bracked 'n't' to complelety change the meaning, and to spell suspicous a little to closer to accepted norm.