Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. KANTOR. I shouted to a couple of the other reporters that I was
familiar enough with Dallas and would get a taxicab. And someone who
was there to attend the function for the President overheard me and
volunteered the service of his station wagon. He gave us his name, but
I didn’t write it down, and don’t remember it.
About eight of us got into the station wagon. And outside of the
reporters who were in the pool car behind the President, we were the
first group of reporters to arrive at the hospital.
This gentleman who drove us there in a station wagon broke an awful lot
of traffic rules, and even went against traffic at a couple of points,
driving on the wrong side of the street. He took us across a field, I
remember, at one point. We made it there very quickly.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Would this be a matter of 2 or 3 minutes, or 5 minutes?
Mr. KANTOR. I would guess 2 or 3 minutes, because Parkland Hospital,
especially if you take shortcuts like that, is very close.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, did this man park and let you out, or did the vehicle
just let you out and go on?
Mr. KANTOR. We were waved on to the emergency entrance side of Parkland
by a policeman, and the driver let us out of the car, I would guess, 25
yards from the entrance.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I wonder if you would do this. I am going to hand you a
pad of paper here and a pencil, and ask you if in a rough fashion you
can sketch out where you were in relationship to Parkland Hospital, and
draw on there a sufficient enough outline to indicate so that we can
talk from here on about the diagram and where you went from time to
time.
Mr. KANTOR. Well, now, you don’t mean where I was in relationship to
Parkland Hospital at the time of the shooting?
Mr. GRIFFIN. No; I mean once--we have arrived at the scene now, and
the man has let you out about 25 yards from the entrance. Why don’t
we start with the diagram that shows that area, and would have enough
detail in it to show the other areas you went to at Parkland Hospital.
Mr. KANTOR. All right. Well, roughly, at least as a start----
Mr. GRIFFIN. Excuse me. Let me mark this. I will put a notation down
here. I am going to mark this yellow sheet of legal size paper “Seth
Kantor Deposition, June 2, 1964, Exhibit No. 1.”
(The document referred to was marked Seth Kantor Deposition, June 2,
1964, Exhibit No. 1, for identification.)
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, referring to Exhibit No. 1, Mr. Kantor, why don’t you
go ahead and fill in the details and talk as you think is appropriate.
Mr. KANTOR. All right. We were waved in off of Harry Hines Boulevard,
by an officer, which led us on a path on the southern side of the
hospital to a point where the emergency entrance is on the western
side. We were let out of the station wagon about 25 yards, I would
guess, directly opposite the emergency entranceway.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Now, you have marked that--shall we call that
point 1 on the diagram. Mark that point 1, where you were let out.
Mr. KANTOR. All right.
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