(Testimony of Buell Wesley Frazier)
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; I didn't.
Mr. Ball.
What time did you knock off for lunch?
Mr. Frazier.
12.
Mr. Ball.
Did you eat your lunch?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; not right then I didn't. I say, you know, he was supposed to come by during our lunch hour so you don't get very many chances to see the President of the United States and being an old Texas boy, and [he] never having been down to Texas very much I went out there to see him and just like everybody else was, I was standing on the steps there and watched for the parade to come by and so I did and I stood there until he come by.
Mr. Ball.
You went out there after you quit work?
Mr. Frazier.
Right, for lunch.
Mr. Ball.
About 12 o'clock?
Mr. Frazier.
Right.
Mr. Ball.
And you hadn't eaten your lunch up to that time?
Mr. FRAZIER, No.
Mr. Ball.
Did you go out there with somebody?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes, sir; I did.
Mr. Ball.
Who did you go out there with?
Mr. Frazier.
I stayed around there pretty close to Mr. Shelley and this boy Billy Lovelady and just standing there, people talking and just talking about how pretty a day it turned out to be, because I told you earlier it was an old cloudy and misty day and then it didn't look like it was going to be a pretty day at all.
Mr. Ball.
And it turned out to be a good day?
Mr. Frazier.
Pretty sunshiny day.
Mr. Ball.
Warm?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes, sir; it was pretty warm.
Mr. Ball.
Then let's see, there was Billy Lovelady and you were there.
Mr. Frazier.
Right.
Mr. Ball.
Anybody else you can remember?
Mr. Frazier.
There was a lady there, a heavy-set lady who worked upstairs there whose name is Sarah something, I don't know her last name.
Mr. Ball.
Were you near the steps?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes, sir; I was, I was standing about, I believe, one step down from the top there.
Mr. Ball.
One step down from the top of the steps?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes, sir; standing there by the rail.
Mr. Ball.
By steps we are talking about the steps of the entrance to the Building?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Ball.
Shown in this picture?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Ball.
Which is Commission's Exhibit No. 362. Can you come over here and show us about where you were standing?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes, sir. Like I told you this was an entrance right here.
Mr. Ball.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Frazier.
We have a bar rail running about half way up here. This was the first step and I was standing right around there.
Mr. Ball.
Put a mark there. Your name is Frazier, put an "F" there for Frazier.
Mr. Frazier.
O.K.
Mr. Ball.
In the picture that would show you about there, would it?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes, sir; you can see, just see, the top, about the top rail there, was standing right in there.
Mr. Ball.
Right in there?
Mr. Frazier.
To be frank with you, I say, shadow from the roof there knocked the sun from out our eyes, you wouldn't have any glare in the eyes standing there.
Mr. Ball.
There was a roof over your head, was there?
Mr. Frazier.
Right.
Mr. Ball.
Did you stand there for 30 minutes or--tell us how long you stayed there?
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