Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would put it that bluntly. Sirica complained, "That's what I want to know." The best Ben-Veniste could get was Bolt's concession that "if it was an accident, it was an accident that was repeated five times." Several of the experts agreed that the markings on the tape were wholly "consistent" with a deliberate erasure...
They were so cautious that when Sirica asked Stockham if the signature marks on the tape could only be produced by pushing tape recorder buttons by hand, he replied: "With a hand. Or with a stick." "But not a foot pedal?" Sirica asked. "Not with a foot pedal," Stockham declared. When the technicians completed their presentation, St. Clair grumped, "I think I'm going to talk to my own experts." Protested Bolt: "I thought we were your experts...
...would be far more likely to have been interpreted as an accident. Even after making all of the short starts and stops ?apparently listening to a portion, then erasing it, then moving on to another part?a shrewder operator would have activated a final continuous sweep of the tape past the erase head. This might have erased the telltale marks on the tape...
Sims testified that on Oct. 1 he was asked by Bull, the President's appointments secretary, to secure a recorder "with a foot-pedal capability." Miss Woods had begun working on the June 20 tape at Camp David on Sept. 29, using a Sony 800B machine, but had complained that transcribing was difficult without a foot control. Sims testified that the Secret Service maintained a pool of four Uher 5000 recorders, but none were "in-house" when Bull asked for one. So Simms immediately purchased one for $528.80 from Fidelity Sound Co. in downtown Washington at about 12:30 that...
...machine incapable of recording?and therefore erasing?although it could still be used for listening. The apparent intention was to prevent accidental erasures. He did so, he said, at Bull's request. The recorder was still in this non-record condition when the June 20 tape gap was revealed to the special prosecutors...