Mr. Ball.

Do you go to the picture show very often--that particular theatre--the Texas Theatre?

Mr. Gibson.

Like I said--that's on Friday and that is depending on business.

Mr. Ball.

About what time of day do you usually go on Friday?

Mr. Gibson.

About 1 o'clock--the same time I always go to lunch.

Mr. Ball.

Where did you sit on this Friday, November 22, 1963?

Mr. Gibson.

I sat in the first chair from the rear on the far right-hand side.

Mr. Ball.

Is that where you always sit?

Mr. Gibson.

That's where I always sit--that's my chair.

Mr. Ball.

I have a picture here of the theatre, which I will have marked as Exhibit A, and will you look at that picture? Does that look like the interior of the Texas Theatre to you?

Mr. Gibson.

Yes, sir; it's got more light on it than I've seen most of the time-- that looks like it.
(Instrument marked by the reporter as Gibson Exhibit No. A, for identification.)

Mr. Ball.

Is the seat in which you usually sit shown in that picture?

Mr. Gibson.

No, sir.

Mr. Ball.

Where is that seat with reference to the picture?

Mr. Gibson.

Further to the left--from the main seating in the very back--it would be just past him.

Mr. Ball.

There's a man sitting in the back in the first seat in the center aisle?

Mr. Gibson.

Right, and I would be to his right.

Mr. Ball.

In the same row?

Mr. Gibson.

In the same row.

Mr. Ball.

To his right facing the screen?

Mr. Gibson.

Yes.

Mr. Ball.

And on the other aisle, is that correct?

Mr. Gibson.

Right.

Mr. Ball.

Did you see the lights come on in that theatre?

Mr. Gibson.

Yes.

Mr. Ball.

Had you paid any attention to other people who had come in the theatre before the lights came on?

Mr. Gibson.

No.

Mr. Ball.

Tell me what happened after the lights came on?

Mr. Gibson.

Well, when the lights came on, of course, as I said before, I know most of the people that work there in the show and I got up and started to the front to ask where the head usher or the girl was that works these lights--if something was wrong--I thought maybe they had a fire.

Mr. Ball.

You say you started to the front, you mean you started into the lobby?

Mr. Gibson.

I started to the lobby, and just before I got to the door there were two or three--anyway the first police officer that got to me was carrying a shotgun, I remember that, and he says, "Is there anybody in the balcony?"
I said, "I don't know." He went on up into the balcony and I stood around out in the lobby for--I don't know--a minute or something, I guess, and they kept coming in and I stepped back inside the theatre just standing just behind where I had been sitting and I would say there were at least six or possibly more policemen downstairs. The rest of them were going upstairs.

Mr. Ball.

What did you see happen?

Mr. Gibson.

Well, I was standing there watching all this going on and then the policeman started down the aisle--I would say there was another--I don't know, maybe six or eight--started down the aisles.

Mr. Ball.

When you say "down the aisles," you mean all of the aisles?

Mr. Gibson.

Toward the screen--I don't know if they were going down all of them or not. I don't believe there was any--there was one policeman standing, it seems to me like, right on the other side of me, in the far aisle just behind me--I don't think there was anybody going down the far aisle next to the wall on my side.

Mr. Ball.

What aisles did you see policemen going down?

Mr. Gibson.

I saw them going down what I would call the two big center