Mr. HALL. Oh, no; gosh, no. There is another reason for this. The concentration of newsmen was apparently already at their posts down in the basement when we got there. Mr. HUBERT. How could you tell that? Mr. HALL. When you back into an opening and look through your rear-view mirror, or also turn around and look down the left side of your truck, you see a concentration of people down in a rather dark basement area. There was excitement down there. We were on the outside. Mr. HUBERT. How could you tell there was excitement? By movement, or sound? Mr. HALL. By movement and noise. Am I being direct enough? Mr. HUBERT. Did you have any conversation with Mr. Fleming during any of this period? Mr. HALL. Very minimal. “What is going on? Are they ready?” Mr. HUBERT. Had any signal arrangement been made between you as to when to start off, and so forth? Mr. HALL. Oh, no. Mr. HUBERT. You were simply waiting instructions then as to what to do? Mr. HALL. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Had you been told as to what route to follow? Mr. HALL. The policeman got into the cab and briefly said his understanding was that we would turn left and have an escort and would probably go on up to Central Express, over to Main, and down to the county courthouse by the most direct route. I feel that this was a little conjecture on his part and mine both. Mr. HUBERT. How long after you had stopped in the final position of the truck did this policeman come and sit next to you? Mr. HALL. Three to five minutes. Mr. HUBERT. How do you fix that? Mr. HALL. Strict estimate; it wasn’t immediately. It wasn’t toward the latter part of the waiting period. It was in the early part of the waiting period, and I feel that 3 to 5 minutes was a fairly accurate estimate. Mr. HUBERT. Did you converse with this gentleman? Mr. HALL. Briefly; we shook hands, smiled at each other, and sat there. Mr. HUBERT. He stayed there until after the shot was fired? Mr. HALL. He stayed in the truck until we pulled over across the street and until after the ambulance had gone by. Mr. HUBERT. I think you said he was in uniform? Mr. HALL. Yes; definitely. Mr. HUBERT. Were there any kind of records kept by your company concerning the movement of the trucks? Mr. HALL. Normally; yes, sir. This Sunday morning adventure was such an unusual thing and participated in by two administrators of the company, that we made no formal truck report as you normally would when you come in off a run. We made an informal memo report, I did, and mailed it to our home office in Fort Worth, Monday morning, describing the situation, just for the file. Mr. HUBERT. Did that report contain any reference to the various times that we have discussed? For example, today, and particularly the time of leaving the terminal and returning to the terminal? Mr. HALL. No; it was just a rough informal memo to Mr. Mastin, the president of the organization, putting on paper what we had done.