1 Boring Old Man

This is an excerpt from the Sheriff’s report of the Cheney Shooting episode [glad Officer San Miguel was comfortable]. The Cast of characters included 3 guides and 6 principals:

The sun was setting in the Western Sky, just 10 degrees above the horizon.

The guess-timated positions of the principals were as follows:

 

From the GPS reading in the report, the shooting occurred West of the Highway which apparently bisects this huge piece of property. 

 

There are only a few things that can be said for sure, given the sketchy nature of the report:

• Katherine Armstrong was not an eye-witness. She didn’t even see what happened. She was at the car, 130 yards away from the action.
• Cheney was looking into the Sun which was just above the horizon when he fired.
• Cheney swung some 180 degrees to shoot.
• He was swinging his gun and shooting at a low flying quail. He shot almost level with the ground. Are they really shooting ‘clipped wing’ quail? Is that why the bird was flying so low to the ground?
• Cheney has good tastes in hunting partners – Pamela Willeford.
• There were three eye-witnesses: the Quail, Pamela Willeford, and Harry Whittington. We’ve not heard much from the main witness who can speak, Pamela. Willeford.
• In a modern world, ‘we’ can spy on private citizens and invade  personal space too. I’d love to ask them, "How does it feel?"

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Not present for the weekend: Lynn Cheney, wife of Dick Cheney; Karen Johnson, lobbyist, business partner of Katherine Armstrong, and reputedly involved in a longtermed affair with Karl Rove; and the Roves [Karl’s first business was financed by Katherine Armstrong’s father, Tobin Armstrong]: