A New York Times team including Malachy Browne, Drew Jordan, Nicole Fineman and Chris Cirillo has produced a video that maps a timeline of the Las Vegas massacre: “The shots began at 10:05. Twelve bursts of gunfire later, police broke down Stephen Paddock’s door at the Mandalay Bay. Using forensic analysis, The Times mapped 30 videos that show a vivid picture of what happened that night.” The Times has posted the video here and also made the video embeddable. I have posted it below.
The Times does not specifically address the controversy surrounding the alterations in the timeline regarding Jesus Campos. Rather, the video maps his activity in the corridor during the massacre.
We remain far from a definitive account of the massacre. It remains a riddle wrapped inside an enigma.
Their analysis makes sense - but that won't matter.
Meh. It's certainly incomplete. They indicate they were counting the shots and the volleys. Why no timeline for how many shots fired in each volley and a total? Info that we still don't have.
I still think he shot at the aviation fuel tanks first but there is not mention of that.
I thought the illustration and timeline of the hallways was helpful. And we found out where Paddock put his hallway cam (supposedly). But we don't know if he was carrying a laptop from the one room to another or if he had a tablet to monitor the camera with.
This could have been done a lot better and they obviously had more info. Certainly the Times should be able to afford some A/V shooting experts. So I'd really just give it a 'C'. If even that.
Things are pretty sad if this is the best that the supposed top investigative newspaper can produce after weeks.
I was hopeful it would be better, lured in by their mention of basing it on 30 eyewitness videos.
