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the shooting -- heading into the railroad yard behind. One
police officer, who had been an escort alongside the President's
car, drove his motorcycle up the high, ascending grade of the
knoll towards the fence,
I read S. M. Holland's description of the shooting:
"I heard a third report and I counted four
shots and in this grove of trees
there was a shot, a report. I don't know
whether it was a shot. I can't say that
And a puff of smoke came out about six or
eight feet above the ground right out from
under those trees, I have no doubt about
seeing that puff of smoke and heard the
report from under those trees
"
0, V. Campbell, the President of the Book Depository,
referring to the shooting, said "it came from the grassy area
down this way," indicating the direction in which the motorcade
had been headed.
James Tague, who was cut on the face by a glancing
bullet, said that "My first impression was that up by the,
whatever you call the monument or whatever it was that somebody
was throwing firecrackers up there and the police were running
up to it."
Billy Lovelady, who was having lunch on the front steps
of the Book Depository -- from which building the official story
has the lonely assassin doing all the shooting -- recollected the
shoots as having come from "right there around that concrete
little deal on that knoll
between the underpass and the
building right on that knoll. "
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