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. GRIFFIN. I take it----
Mr. KANTOR. I would have to just guess, really.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I take it from what you are saying that you feel that the
door was not on that portion of the entranceway towards Harry Hines
Boulevard, or am I mistaken about that? I want to try to limit this
somewhere as to what area you think this might have been in.
Mr. KANTOR. I don’t recall going past the main entranceway, going
towards Harry Hines Boulevard. It seems to me that it either was right
at the main entrance, or a door perhaps adjacent to the main entrance,
because it seems like it was a small entranceway.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Now, let me ask you again then--why don’t you
place a 3-A where this small door before the main entranceway might
have been, and a 3-B generally indicating the main entranceway.
Mr. KANTOR. All right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, is there anything in particular about the doorway
that you were in--that you were near at the time you thought you saw
Ruby that sticks out in your mind?
Mr. KANTOR. Well, three things. It was not a large doorway keeps
sticking in my mind--that is why I have doubts about it being right in
the main entrance. Also there were stairs within, a very few steps, 5
to 10 steps, probably, within the doorway there was a stairway going
up. And, thirdly, I recall that beside Jack Ruby there were nurses
and there were people who looked like interns--at any rate they were
doctors, dressed in white.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, do you recall if during the period you were at
Parkland Hospital, as you drove into Parkland Hospital and at the time
you left, if this entranceway to the hospital by Harry Hines Boulevard
was blocked or guarded in any way to prevent the entrance of normal
private vehicles?
Mr. KANTOR. It appeared to be that way as we came up. On the other
hand, the driver of our vehicle, at our urging, leaned out of his
window and hollered “Press.” Perhaps he said White House Press. At any
rate, the officer immediately in our way backed off and waved us in.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, directing your attention to the main entranceway of
the hospital, where would parking facilities be in relationship to that
main entranceway for normal people visiting the hospital on regular
business?
Mr. KANTOR. Even when I was a newspaperman in Dallas, I always went to
the emergency area when I had to go to the hospital, because it was
relative to a story. I am not totally sure about this area. There is
a parking area--because I can remember buses coming in and out of this
area here. But it seems to me it would be set back on the opposite
side, and that this would be the throughway.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Now, you have drawn a line perpendicular to
Harry Hines Boulevard, paralleling the side of Parkland Hospital that
the main entrance is on, and then to--would that be the south of that
line?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You have placed some more hashmarks, and you think there
is where the general parking area was.
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