Harold
(Hank) Norman worked at the Texas School Book Depository. On 22nd
November, 1963, Norman saw the motorcade of President John
F. Kennedy
from the fifth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. He was one
of those workers who saw Lee Harvey Oswald
just before Kennedy was murdered.
Norman
later gave evidence to the Warren Commission,
and the CBS:
The Warren Report.
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
(1)
Harold
Norman,
The Warren Report:
Part 1, CBS Television (25th June, 1967)
That particular morning three or four of us were standing by the window,
and Oswald came over, and he said, "What's
everybody looking at, and what's everybody excited about?" So
I told him we was waiting on the President. So he just snudged up
and walked away.
(2)
Harold
Norman,
The Warren Report:
Part 2, CBS Television (26th June, 1967)
Then I think, about that time, well, Jarman says, somebody's shooting
at the President. And I told Jarman, I said, I said, I know it is
because I could hear - they are above me, and I could hear the shots
and everything, and I could even hear the empty cartridges hitting
the floor. I mean, after the shots had been fired.
And so, after the shots
were fired, well, all the officers and everyone else seemed to think
they came from by the track over by
the underpass, because that's where everyone ran, over that-a-way.
But, I - just like I said, I've been hunting enough to know the sound
of a rifle from-from a backfire or a firecracker or anything like
- especially that close to me.
(2)
S.
M. Holland,
The Warren Report:
Part 2, CBS Television (26th June, 1967)
Just about the time that the parade turned on Elm
Street, about where that truck is - that bus is now, there was a shot
came from up-the upper end of the street. I couldn't say then, at
that time, that it came from the Book Depository book
store. But I knew that it came from the other end of the street, and
the President slumped over forward like that and tried to raise his
hand up. And Governor Connally, sitting in front of him on the right
side of the car, tried to turn to his right and he was sitting so
close to the door that he couldn't make it that-a-way, and he turned
back like that with his arm out to the left. And about that time,
the second shot was fired and it knocked him over forward and he slumped
to the right, and I guess his wife pulled him over in her lap because
he fell over in her lap.
And about that time, there
was a third report that wasn't nearly as loud as the two previous
reports. It came from that picket
fence, and then there was a fourth report. The third and the fourth
reports was almost simultaneously. But, the third report wasn't nearly
as loud as the two previous reports or the fourth report. And I glanced
over underneath that green tree and you see a - a little puff of smoke.
It looked like a puff of steam or cigarette smoke. And the smoke was
about - oh, eight or ten feet off the ground, and about fifteen feet
this side of that tree.
(2)
Eddie Barker
interviewed Abraham
Zapruder
for the documentary The Warren Report:
Part 2, CBS Television (26th June, 1967)
Eddie Barker: Abraham Zapruder, whose film of the assassination was
studied at length on last night's program, was standing up on this
little wall right at the edge of the grassy knoll. Now, shots from
behind that picket fence over there would have almost had to
whistle by his ear. Mr. Zapruder, when we interviewed him here, tended
to agree that the knoll was not involved.
Abraham
Zapruder: I'm not a ballistics expert, but I believe that if
there were shots that come from my right ear, I would hear a different
sound. I heard shots coming from - I wouldn't know which direction
to say-but they was driven from the Texas Book Depository and they
all sounded alike. There was no difference in sound at all.
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