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From: Jasper
Date: 7/9/03
Time: 3:50:28 PM
Remote User:
Lollie,
You are a treasure. This is VERY interesting.
I had no idea that Eliot put such an incriminating spin on Kato’s actions. They only appear incriminating when you suggest incriminating explanations and allow the reader to fill in the blanks. That’s what Eliot did. In that first section he sounds a lot like John with HIS (Eliot’s) suggestion that Kato planted the glove. John could learn a lot from you about putting quotes in context.
The most interesting thing to me about the next section is that Eliot mentions Ron Shipp at all. He says nothing about Shipp that wasn’t available through other sources. It seems that he does so mostly to segue into Kato’s access to the property through the Ashford gate and to explain how the Rockingham gate worked.
The most striking thing to me about the last passage is Eliot’s abominable sense of time and space. The gate did open slowly. O.J. estimated that it took about 15 seconds to open all the way. That’s a long time for a gate to open. Five or ten minutes is ridiculous. Moreover, Kato parked on Ashford. That was the closest gate to his bungalow and he would have had few occasions to stand outside of the Rockingham gate to wait for it to open. If he ever did that, it would have taken no more than four or five seconds for the gate to open enough for him to walk through. It only had to open all the way when he drove a car thorough it.
The reason the gate was set on such a slow cycle was because the opening and closing mechanism was the same and it closed automatically. O.J. usually parked on Ashford but when he parked on Rockingham it was after he drove it through the compound from Ashford the way he said he did on the night of the murders. He had to park, get out, and enter the gate before it closed. That’s why the Bronco was ALWAYS parked at a slight angle to the Rockingham curb. He didn’t have time to pull it farther forward to straighten it out or to back up and pull it straight in. –Jasper