Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Then we realized or we thought that it was gunfire, and then we
could not at that point see the President’s car. We were still
moving slowly, and after the third shot the second two shots
seemed much closer together than the first shot, than they were
to the first shot. Then after the last shot, I guess all of
us were just looking all around and I just looked straight up
ahead of me which would have been looking at the School Book
Depository and I noticed two Negro men in a window straining to
see directly above them, and my eyes followed right on up to
the window above them and I saw the rifle or what looked like
a rifle approximately half of the weapon, I guess I saw, and
just as I looked at it, it was drawn fairly slowly back into
the building, and I saw no one in the window with it.
I didn’t even see a form in the window.[C3-22]
In the car with Jackson were James Underwood, television station
KRLD-TV; Thomas Dillard, chief photographer, Dallas Morning News;
Malcolm O. Couch and James Darnell, television newsreel cameramen.
Dillard, Underwood, and the driver were in the front seat, Couch
and Darnell were sitting on top of the back seat of the convertible
with Jackson. Dillard, Couch, and Underwood confirmed that Jackson
spontaneously exclaimed that he saw a rifle in the window.[C3-23]
According to Dillard, at the time the shots were fired he and his
fellow passengers “had an absolutely perfect view of the School
Depository from our position in the open car.”[C3-24] Dillard
immediately took two pictures of the building: one of the east
two-thirds of the south side and the other of the southeast corner,
particularly the fifth- and sixth-floor windows.[C3-25] These pictures
show three Negro men in windows on the fifth floor and the partially
open window on the sixth floor directly above them. (See Dillard
Exhibits C and D, pp. 66-67.) Couch also saw the rifle in the window,
and testified:
And after the third shot, Bob Jackson, who was, as I recall,
on my right, yelled something like, “Look up in the window!
There’s the rifle!”
And I remember glancing up to a window on the far right, which
at the time impressed me as the sixth or seventh floor, and
seeing about a foot of a rifle being--the barrel brought into
the window.[C3-26]
Couch testified he saw people standing in other windows on the third
or fourth floor in the middle of the south side, one of them being a
Negro in a white T-shirt leaning out to look up at the windows above
him.[C3-27]
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