(Testimony of Robert Alan Surrey)
Mr. Jenner.
You are familiar with that area?
Mr. Surrey.
Yes; I am.
Mr. Jenner.
And its physical appearance, except for the foliage on the trees, is as that area looked on the night of April 10, 1963? Is that correct?
Mr. Surrey.
That is correct.
Mr. Jenner.
I hand you Commission Exhibit No. 1016.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1016 for identification.)
Mr. Jenner.
Read the inscription on the reverse side, please. You are familiar with that area shown on the photograph?
Mr. Surrey.
Yes; I am.
Mr. Jenner.
Do the descriptions on the reverse side of the photograph correctly describe that area?
Mr. Surrey.
With the exception that I do not know these cars and so forth.
Mr. Jenner.
I am talking about the area.
Mr. Surrey.
The physical area; yes, they do.
Mr. Jenner.
And that area looks the same today as it did on the evening of, April 10, or the day of April 10, 1963?
Mr. Surrey.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
I now hand you the last of these, Commission Exhibit No. 1017, and ask you first to read the inscription and then examine the photograph.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1017 identification.)
Mr. Surrey.
Yes, sir; these are substantially correct.
Mr. Jenner.
As of today, as well as as of April 10, 1963?
Mr. Surrey.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
All right. Now, Mr. Chief Justice, I offer in evidence the various exhibits which we have identified in the record with the exhibit numbers, and ask that the exhibits take the exhibit numbers I recited in each instance as to each exhibit, being Exhibits Nos. 996 through 1000 and 1002 through 1017.
The Chairman.
They may all be admitted under those numbers.
(The documents heretofore marked Commission Exhibits Nos. 996 through 1000 and 1002 through 1017 were received in evidence.)
Mr. Jenner.
That includes, Mr. Chief Justice, the diagrams which the witness has prepared for us.
The Chairman.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
As I reported to you, Mr. Chief Justice, the file on the Walker incident reached us about 20 minutes before we opened this morning. I think I have covered everything. Could I have the privilege of 5 minutes to take a look?
The Chairman.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
I will do it very quickly.
The Chairman.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Who is Mr. Coleman? Do you know a man by that name?
Mr. Surrey.
Not personally.
Mr. Jenner.
Walker Kirk Coleman.
Mr. Surrey.
As I just read on the back of your exhibit, he is the boy that reported seeing several automobiles at the time of the assassination.
Mr. Jenner.
That is immaterial to this issue.
You have never seen either of the two men you have mentioned before or since the occasion you saw that automobile with the two men in it on the evening of April 8, 1963?
Mr. Surrey.
Not to my knowledge. I never was very close to them.
Mr. Jenner.
Were you able to--what kind of an automobile was it, do you know?
Mr. Surrey.
It was a Ford, a new Ford at that time.
Mr. Jenner.
Sedan?
Mr. Surrey.
Four-door sedan.
Mr. Jenner.
And it was new?
Mr. Surrey.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
To your knowledge, have you ever seen that automobile before or since?
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