Mr. POE. I was in construction work. I was the carpenter when I got out of the Service. Mr. BALL. You worked as a "snipe," in the Service, is that right? Mr. POE. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Then you got out of the Service and worked as a construction worker? Mr. POE. Yes. Mr. BALL. And then what did you do? Mr. POE. I joined the police force. Mr. BALL. What kind of work do you do on the police force? Mr. POE. Patrol work. Mr. BALL. Patrolman? Mr. POE. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. In a car? Mr. POE. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. In a radio car? Mr. POE. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Were you on duty on the 22d of November 1963? Mr. POE. Yes, sir; I was. Mr. BALL. What time of day? Mr. POE. From 7 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. Mr. BALL. Were you alone? Mr. POE. No, sir. Mr. BALL. Who was with you? Mr. POE. L. E. Jez. Mr. BALL. [Spelling.] J-a-s-s. Mr. POE. No; it is J-e-z. Mr. BALL. What district do you patrol? Mr. POE. I had two districts to patrol. District 105 and district 106. Mr. BALL. Where are they located? Mr. POE. In the western end of the downtown section. Mr. BALL. You were a downtown patrolman? Mr. POE. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Did you hear of the assassination of the President over the radio? The fact that the President had been shot? Mr. POE. We heard the call come out on the radio. There was a signal 19, which would be a shooting of the President, at Elm and Houston Streets. Mr. BALL. What did you do? Were you told to go some place? Mr. POE. We reported the scene; yes, sir. Mr. BALL. To where? Mr. POE. To Elm and Houston. Mr. BALL. When--what did you do there? Mr. POE. We helped cover off the building and control the crowd. Mr. BALL. Then you went where? Mr. POE. From there to Oak Cliff, to the scene of the Tippit shooting. Mr. BALL. How did you happen to go out there? Mr. POE. I was standing close to the squad car using the squad car as part of the block to keep the crowd back and had run out of rope, and heard a citizen, I presume, get on the radio, and--because he didn't know radio procedure, called and said a police officer was shot out there. At first give the wrong address, and come back and changed it to another address, and I believe he left us in the 400 block of East Ninth, the last time, and we went out there. Mr. BALL. You went there? Mr. POE. Yes. Mr. BALL. And what did you find when you got there? Mr. POE. We found---- Mr. BALL. What did you see? Mr. POE. Found the squad car parked toward the curb, and a pool of blood at the left-front wheel of the car. The ambulance had already picked him up and the officer had left the scene when we arrived. We had--I don't know how many people there were. Looked like 150 to 200 people around there, and Mrs. Markham, I talked to her first and we got a description of the man that shot Tippit. Mr. BALL. Do you know what the description was? Mr. POE. Sir? Mr. BALL. Do you know what the description was?