Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. WILLIAMS. The direction that we ran after we heard the shots was--I
would say I was in about this position here, this window. And we left
like this. Harold was coming from here.
Mr. BALL. Let me show you the diagram. Here are these two pair of
windows that are shown here on this diagram. This is the corner. Here
is the next window, and here is the next window.
Now, take the pencil and show where you were and where you ran to.
Mr. WILLIAMS. I was right here.
Mr. BALL. Mark an X, and bring it on down, and show us.
Mr. WILLIAMS. I left here, and I came like this. The other fellows
followed like this. We all was running this direction here. And I
believe when we got to this point here, we stopped. And I am not sure,
but I think James Jarman, he raised this window, this corner window
here, and we all huddled in this corner window.
Mr. BALL. We will mark that window Y. And then you ran from X to Y, you
three men?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Was the window open or closed?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I think it was closed at the time.
Mr. BALL. Was it opened then?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I believe James Jarman opened the window.
Mr. BALL. Now, the other day, when you were up here, you three men went
to that window and stood there and had your picture taken, did you not?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. This window which you have shown as Y, in 487, the diagram of
the fifth floor.
Mr. WILLIAMS. That's right.
Mr. BALL. Here is 488.
(The document so described was marked Commission Exhibit No. 488 for
identification.)
Mr. BALL. Is that the window?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes; it is.
Mr. BALL. And is that about the way you were standing as you looked out
to the west?
Mr. WILLIAMS. That is about the way we were standing.
Mr. BALL. Did you run fast towards the west?
Mr. WILLIAMS. We did. We moved rather fast. We was at a trotting pace.
Mr. DULLES. Was that to get a better view of the President's party in
the car?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No, sir; I don't think--we knew the President had been
shot at at that time. The car was gone, you know. It has speeded up
and left. But the people, as I said before, the policemen and people
were running towards the tracks. The tracks are at this side of the
building. We wondered why they were running that way.
Mr. DULLES. How did you know the President was shot at this time?
Mr. WILLIAMS. We heard the shots, and we assumed somebody had shot him.
And we decided to run down that way.
Representative FORD. Why didn't you go up to the sixth floor?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I really don't know. We just never did think about it.
And after we had made this last stop, James Jarman said, "Maybe we
better get the hell out of here." And so we just ran down to the fourth
floor, and came on down. We never did think about it, going up to the
sixth floor. Maybe it was just because we were frightened.
Mr. DULLES. Did you know the President had been hit?
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