Commission Exhibit No. 1009, and ask you if this is not in fact a picture of the next room.
General WALKER. To closer identify that further, the screen frame has a crosspiece in the center also, and the bullet went through the crosspiece in the screen and then hit both the window frame and the glass.

Mr. Liebeler.

Commission Exhibit No. 1009 is a picture of the room next to the one in which you were sitting, and shows some literature that was stored and the place where the bullet came out.
General WALKER. That identifies the next room where the bullet went through the wall by my desk and came out in the next room. The bullet was picked up lying on a piece of the literature there.

Mr. Liebeler.

I have here a photograph which I am marking as Walker Exhibit No. 1, and which I win initial for the purpose of identification, and ask you to do the same so that we have no confusion as to the identification of that picture.
(General Walker initials.)

Mr. Liebeler.

Now are you able to tell from looking at that picture what it shows?
General WALKER. Yes; I can identify this picture. It is the backyard of my house at 4011 Turtle Creek. It is a view from a position taken near the west fence line, taken of the rear of my house, camera pointed east. It shows the fence running down on the left side between my rented property, and the church property.

Mr. Liebeler.

Can you see the room in which you were sitting when this shot was fired at you in that picture. I call your attention to where the police officer is standing. There is a police officer standing over there in front of a window, isn't there?
General WALKER. I can see the corner of the house. The window is right in here.

Mr. Liebeler.

Now you have indicated that where the policeman is standing in this Walker Exhibit No. 1, is part of the entrance to the house, but that is not the room that you were sitting in at the time the shot was fired at you? You were sitting in a room that is not even visible in this picture, because it is behind some bushes and trees that appear to the left foreground of the picture; is that correct?
General WALKER. That is correct. The policeman is to the left--to the right. His position is to the right.

Mr. Liebeler.

As you face the picture?
General WALKER. Of the room I was sitting in.

Mr. Liebeler.

You can't actually see the window through which the shot came in that picture?
General WALKER. Not in this picture, you can't see the window.

Mr. Liebeler.

The Dallas Police Department, of course, sent officers out to investigate this after the shot was fired at you, did they not?
General WALKER. That is correct.

Mr. Liebeler.

You got out in the backyard and reviewed the possibilities, to try and figure out what happened with them at that time, and specifically I wonder--
General WALKER. Seems to me I talked to them in the room first and showed them around. I believe I did. I can't recall whether they asked me out or not. There wasn't much to tell them.

Mr. Liebeler.

Were you able to determine the spot from which it appeared the shot had been fired?
General WALKER. We lined up the shot, the police did, and I noticed they worked this whole area back here to the fence, and even went out into the alley to find the lattice fence that sits right here.

Mr. Liebeler.

You mean the area immediately behind the picture?
General WALKER. Just behind the camera that took this picture.

Mr. Liebeler.

Yes; Walker Exhibit No. 1. Were you able to determine to your satisfaction the place from which the shot was fired?
General WALKER. I was convinced there wasn't any doubt the shot was fired about where this camerman was standing, or a little bit behind him and outside

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