boxes. I could tell the gun was a rifle and it
sounded like an automatic rifle the way he was shooting.
Another witness who saw a gunman in the Depository was L. R. Terry,
who was standing across Elm Street near Brennan and Euins. Terry told
this author:
I was right across from that book store when Kennedy was shot. I saw a
gun come out of there just after I saw Kennedy and Connally go by. I
could only see a hand, but I couldn't tell if [the man] was right-handed
or left-handed. He did not have on a white shirt. The parade stopped
right in front of the building. There was a man with him. They
[investigators] could find out that the man who killed Kennedy had
somebody with him. But I don't know who it is. . . . I just saw the gun
barrel and the hand.
Across the street from Brennan, Euins, and Terry were Texas School
Book Depository superintendent Roy Truly and Depository vice president
0. V. Campbell.
They had started to go to lunch about 12:15 P.M. when they saw the
crowds and decided to wait and see the presidential motorcade. As the
motorcade approached, they were having difficulty seeing over the heads
of the crowd, so the two men moved closer to Elm Street and a bit farther
west into the plaza. Here they were joined by Mrs. Robert A. Reid, the
Depository's clerical supervisor.
Just after the presidential limousine had turned onto Elm and started into
the plaza, both men heard an "explosion . . . from west of the building
[depository]." Truly thought it was a firecracker or toy cannon.
When Mrs. Reid turned to Campbell and said, "Oh my goodness, I'm
afraid those came from our building," he replied: "Oh, Mrs. Reid, no, it
came from the grassy area down this way."
Danny G. Arce, who had been working in the Depository, also was standing
near Truly and Campbell. He told the Warren Commission shots "came
from the railroad tracks to the west of the Texas School Book Depository."
Truly said after the initial explosion, everything seemed frozen. Then
there were two more explosions, and he realized that shots were being
fired. He saw the President's car come to a stop.
Another Depository employee saw a bullet hit the street at the time of
the first shot. Virgie Rachley (by the time of her Warren Commission
testimony she had married and was Mrs. Donald Baker) was a bookkeeper
at the Depository. She and other workers were standing near Truly and
Campbell in front of the Depository facing Elm Street. She told the
Warren Commission:
... after he passed us, then we heard a noise and I thought it was
firecrackers because I saw a shot or something hit the pavement. . . . It
looked just like you could see the sparks from it and I just thought it
was a firecracker and I was thinking that ... somebody was fixing to
get in a lot of trouble and we thought the kids or whoever threw it were
down below or standing near the underpass or back up here by the sign.
Mrs. Baker told Commission attorney Wesley Liebeler that the stray
bullet struck the middle of the southmost lane on Elm Street just behind
the presidential limousine.
Truly said the crowd around him began to surge backward in panic. He
became separated from Campbell and quickly found himself back on the
steps of the Depository. Moments later a motorcycle policeman pushed
past him and ran into the Depository. Truly caught up with him in the
lobby and they went toward their encounter with a Depository employeeLee Harvey Oswald.
Campbell ran with many others to where he believed the shots had come
from, "... near the railroad tracks located over the viaduct on Elm
Street. "
Mary E. Woodward, a staff writer for the Dallas Morning News, had
gone to Dealey Plaza with four co-workers to get a look at the President
while they ate lunch. As the limousine passed, she and another writer who
had seen Kennedy during the final weeks of the 1960 campaign, commented on how relaxed and robust he appeared. Standing near the Stemmons Freeway sign
sounded like an automatic rifle the way he was shooting.
Another witness who saw a gunman in the Depository was L. R. Terry,
who was standing across Elm Street near Brennan and Euins. Terry told
this author:
I was right across from that book store when Kennedy was shot. I saw a
gun come out of there just after I saw Kennedy and Connally go by. I
could only see a hand, but I couldn't tell if [the man] was right-handed
or left-handed. He did not have on a white shirt. The parade stopped
right in front of the building. There was a man with him. They
[investigators] could find out that the man who killed Kennedy had
somebody with him. But I don't know who it is. . . . I just saw the gun
barrel and the hand.
Across the street from Brennan, Euins, and Terry were Texas School
Book Depository superintendent Roy Truly and Depository vice president
0. V. Campbell.
They had started to go to lunch about 12:15 P.M. when they saw the
crowds and decided to wait and see the presidential motorcade. As the
motorcade approached, they were having difficulty seeing over the heads
of the crowd, so the two men moved closer to Elm Street and a bit farther
west into the plaza. Here they were joined by Mrs. Robert A. Reid, the
Depository's clerical supervisor.
Just after the presidential limousine had turned onto Elm and started into
the plaza, both men heard an "explosion . . . from west of the building
[depository]." Truly thought it was a firecracker or toy cannon.
When Mrs. Reid turned to Campbell and said, "Oh my goodness, I'm
afraid those came from our building," he replied: "Oh, Mrs. Reid, no, it
came from the grassy area down this way."
Danny G. Arce, who had been working in the Depository, also was standing
near Truly and Campbell. He told the Warren Commission shots "came
from the railroad tracks to the west of the Texas School Book Depository."
Truly said after the initial explosion, everything seemed frozen. Then
there were two more explosions, and he realized that shots were being
fired. He saw the President's car come to a stop.
Another Depository employee saw a bullet hit the street at the time of
the first shot. Virgie Rachley (by the time of her Warren Commission
testimony she had married and was Mrs. Donald Baker) was a bookkeeper
at the Depository. She and other workers were standing near Truly and
Campbell in front of the Depository facing Elm Street. She told the
Warren Commission:
... after he passed us, then we heard a noise and I thought it was
firecrackers because I saw a shot or something hit the pavement. . . . It
looked just like you could see the sparks from it and I just thought it
was a firecracker and I was thinking that ... somebody was fixing to
get in a lot of trouble and we thought the kids or whoever threw it were
down below or standing near the underpass or back up here by the sign.
Mrs. Baker told Commission attorney Wesley Liebeler that the stray
bullet struck the middle of the southmost lane on Elm Street just behind
the presidential limousine.
Truly said the crowd around him began to surge backward in panic. He
became separated from Campbell and quickly found himself back on the
steps of the Depository. Moments later a motorcycle policeman pushed
past him and ran into the Depository. Truly caught up with him in the
lobby and they went toward their encounter with a Depository employeeLee Harvey Oswald.
Campbell ran with many others to where he believed the shots had come
from, "... near the railroad tracks located over the viaduct on Elm
Street. "
Mary E. Woodward, a staff writer for the Dallas Morning News, had
gone to Dealey Plaza with four co-workers to get a look at the President
while they ate lunch. As the limousine passed, she and another writer who
had seen Kennedy during the final weeks of the 1960 campaign, commented on how relaxed and robust he appeared. Standing near the Stemmons Freeway sign
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