(Testimony of )
Mr. Mcwatters.
just two cross seats, and two seats where you sit sideways and then the two seats in which he would be back here.
Representative Ford.
Could you diagram that as best as you can?
Mr. Belin.
Congressman, we have a diagram. We have a picture of the side of the bus.
Mr. Mcwatters.
Right here.
Representative Ford.
Sit down.
Mr. Mcwatters.
You can see it from this point right here, in other words. You see this cross seat, in other words, these first two right here, the driver's seat, you see the first two seats there, in other words.
Representative Ford.
Could you sit down and mark it?
Mr. Mcwatters.
This is the inside, let's see, this is the driver right here. Here is your cross seat right here. Here, about back here, is where the lady got off who was sitting on this seat.
Representative Ford.
Will you mark that with an "L"?
Mr. Mcwatters.
In other words, right here.
Representative Ford.
Where was the man in the first cross seat sitting?
Mr. Mcwatters.
Right here is the first. Right here is where the man that was sitting, got off, in this seat right here, I believe it is.
Representative Ford.
Will you mark that "M" where the man who was sitting also got off who got the transfer?
Mr. Ball.
Maybe we had better use a black pen that will show better on that glazed surface.
Representative Ford.
This is where the man was sitting who you issued the transfer to at the same time the lady was issued the transfer?
Mr. Mcwatters.
Yes, sir.
Representative Ford.
And the teenager was sitting in what seat?
Mr. Mcwatters.
Right here.
Representative Ford.
Will you mark that "0"?
Mr. Mcwatters.
Yes, sir.
Representative Ford.
Where was the man standing who came to the bus and said the President had been shot?
Mr. Mcwatters.
Right here.
Representative Ford.
On the step?
Mr. Mcwatters.
On the step. I guess, I presume this would be the second step there. To the best of my recollection he stepped up on the first step.
Representative Ford.
Mark that "P."
Mr. Mcwatters.
"P."
Representative Ford.
Now, after the man who was standing at "P" said the President was shot, what did the lady do who was sitting in "L"?
Mr. Mcwatters.
Well, the lady, she had a suitcase sitting right there beside me and she left. When the lady got up and said she would like to get off the bus, and that she was going to walk to the Union Station and asked me if I would give her a transfer in case that I caught up with her, and asked me if I would pick her up.
Representative Ford.
You gave her a transfer?
Mr. Mcwatters.
Yes, sir.
Representative Ford.
What happened?
Mr. Mcwatters.
She got off and by the time when she was talking to me that is when he got up, this gentleman here in the seat got up, at seat "M" got off. In other words, the door was never closed of the bus from the time the gentleman stepped up in the door of that there, in other words, when he said what he did, and got on back in his car, in other words, the lady got off, and the man got off, too, both at the same stop.
In other words, the bus hadn't moved at that stop.
Mr. Ball.
I would like to mark this as the next exhibit, Commission's exhibit, which will be the diagram of the bus with the initials "M," "O," "L," "P," will be marked as Commission's Exhibit 373.
Representative Ford.
It will be so admitted.
(The diagram referred to was marked Commission's Exhibit No. 373 for identification and received in evidence.)
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