Mr. Sorrels.

Well, because I remember that they were not near the top---I can just remember that--it seemed to me like two floors down from the top, as I recall having seen them. And, of course, when I got back to the building down there, there were windows open on the floor below at the place where I recall having seen the colored men.

Mr. Stern.

So it was the open window afterwards that helped you recall?

Mr. Sorrels.

That is right.

Mr. Stern.

And are you certain that those were the same open windows?

Mr. Sorrels.

Yes, I think they were. I don't have any reason to think otherwise.

Mr. Stern.

Then you accompanied Brennan and Euins where?

Mr. Sorrels.

To the sheriff's office, which was right across the street from the Book Depository.

Mr. Stern.

Did you have any further conversation withe them on the way over there?

Mr. Sorrels.

Oh, yes; we discussed--I was talking to him on the way over there about what they saw and observed, and told them we would like to come in there where we could get their statements down in writing.

Mr. Stern.

Did they tell you anything that you have not already told us?

Mr. Sorrels.

Not that I recall.
The little colored boy mentioned he was there with another colored boy that ran off when this thing happened--at the first shot this boy ran off. He said he stayed there, but the other boy ran off. I didn't make any effort to get touch with him, because he apparently saw nothing.

Mr. Stern.

Then you took them into the sheriff's office?

Mr. Sorrels.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Stern.

What was going on in the sheriff's office?

Mr. Sorrels.

At that time one of the deputy sheriffs was in the interrogation room taking a statement from some witness there. And I did not want to just stay there and wait too long, so I asked him would he also write up the statements on it--Mr. Brennan and the colored boy. And I then started out in the hall of the sheriff's office there with the idea of going back to see if I could locate other witnesses, when Chief Deputy Sheriff Mr. Allan Sweatt told me there was another witness across the hallway, near Mr. Sweatt's office he is the polygraph operator there, and his office is not in the same area as the sheriff's office but across the hall--that there was an FBI agent taking. a statement over there from a person.
So I accompanied him over there and hadn't been in there but just a few minutes until Mr. Sweat came and called me out and says "Forrest, there are some people here I think you ought to talk to."

Mr. Stern.

Whose statement was being taken by the FBI?

Mr. Sorrels.

I don't recall. And, at that time----

Mr. Stern.

Do you recall what their statement was--what their testimony was?

Mr. Sorrels.

No, I don't, because I wasn't in there but just a very short time. And this FBI agent was questioning about what they had seen and so forth. I don't recall--it was being taken down at the time.
So I went out, and they had Mr. and Mrs. Arnold there. And Mr. Arnold, a young man, and his wife, very young, said that they were standing on the side of the street on Houston Street, there by the courthouse building, and that they--this is prior to the time of the arrival of the President there, some 20 to 25 minutes beforehand, he said.

Mr. Stern.

This is the east side?

Mr. Sorrels.

That would be the east side of Houston Street.

Mr. Stern.

Are you certain about the name of this couple? I believe you said Arnold.

Mr. Sorrels.

Well----

Mr. Stern.

Could that have been his first name?

Mr. Sorrels.

Yes, that could have been his first name.

Mr. Stern.

Can you recall his second name?

Mr. Sorrels.

I would know it if I heard it.

Mr. Stern.

Could it have been Roland?