Mr. Griffin.

All right. Now, I take it then you went on out to the funeral, or wherever you had to go ?

Mr. Arnett.

I went on home. I had my police radio on. Before I arrived at my home I heard someone come in on the radio and say, "A police officer has been shot." And further, maybe a block or two, he says, "I believe he is dead." And I changed my clothes right quick and got in my car to go to Grapevine. I came back down Clarendon to the R. L. Thornton Expressway, taken R. L. Thornton Expressway to Highway 114 well, it turns into Stemmons Expressway, you know, automatically, Highway 114, and I was listening all the time of this transaction of the police officer.

Mr. Griffin.

Were you listening on a police radio?

Mr. Arnett.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Griffin.

Okay. Let me ask you this, this is your own private car?

Mr. Arnett.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Griffin.

Does the police radio broadcast over a frequency that can be heard on ordinary radio receivers?

Mr. Arnett.

No, sir.

Mr. Griffin.

What kind of special adaption do you have to have on your receiver to pick this up?

Mr. Arnett.

They call it a converter. It's hooked in with your radio.

Mr. Griffin.

Is this an FM converter; do they broadcast on an FM frequency, do you know?

Mr. Arnett.

Well, seems to me like it used to be AM and you could pick it up then by having your radio fixed a certain way, but they quit that. You couldn't do it no more, so you had to buy this converter to go with your radio to get it. And I listened to the move from the library over in Oak Cliff to the Texas Theater, and was listening to it when they got him, but I was at Grapevine.

Mr. Griffin.

Did you hear the automobiles called in from the outlying districts over your radio, when you were listening to it; did you hear any communications from the dispatcher or otherwise, calling police cars in from the outlying districts?

Mr. Arnett.

They were giving a description of the man that they had a description on, and then after the policeman was shot, Tippit, well, they was giving the description of it, and they first thought he was in the library over in Oak Cliff. Then they moved to a vacant house, then they moved to the Texas Theater.

Mr. Griffin.

All right. Now, did you go back to the police station on Friday, after you heard that Tippit had been shot?

Mr. Arnett.

After the funeral, after my aunt's funeral was over, I came home, ate supper and went back in uniform, came back down here and worked on the third floor at the elevator.

Mr. Griffin.

What time would you estimate that you arrived at the third floor ?

Mr. Arnett.

I would say 6 o'clock.

Mr. Griffin.

Now, at the time that you arrived at the elevator, had there been a system set up for admitting people to the third floor--let's put it this way, excluding people from the third floor ?

Mr. Arnett.

That's what I started doing.

Mr. Griffin.

Now, was there anybody else doing that at the elevator before you arrived, before you got there ?

Mr. Arnett.

I couldn't say whether there was anybody assigned there before I got there or not, but there was a Sergeant Ellis, I believe, and Sergeant Dugger, were there 'with me when I was working there.

Mr. Griffin.

All right. Did you replace anybody ?

Mr. Arnett.

Now, I am not going to say that I did or I didn't, because I couldn't tell you and be telling you the truth.

Mr. Griffin.

Who did you get your instructions from?

Mr. Arnett.

I believe it was Sergeant Ellis, I believe it was, now.

Mr. Griffin.

IS he a regular sergeant?

Mr. Arnett.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Griffin.

Now, did you ride on the elevator?

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