Do you remember saying that?
General WALKER. But I will tell you what I did think. I think I said that, right. The police asked me to sit down. You want me to tell you?

Mr. Liebeler.

Yes.
General WALKER. The police asked me to sit down when I got there and they went through the motions of lining up the shot from inside and outside.
And one policeman said, "He couldn't have missed you."
And one said, a lieutenant I believe it was, said, "It was an attempted assassination."
And I said, "What makes you call it that?" And he said, "Because he definitely was out to get you."
And I said, "Your remark sounds like a natural remark." But as I later was analyzing the thing, he couldn't see either with a scope or without a scope. He couldn't see from his position any of the lattice work either in the windows or in the screens because of the light. It would have looked like one big lighted area, and he could have been a very good shot and just by chance he hit the woodwork.

Mr. Liebeler.

Which he did in fact?
General WALKER. Which he did, and there was enough deflection in it to miss me, except for slivers of the bullet, the casing of the bullet that went into my arm laying on the desk--slivers of the shell jacket.

Mr. Liebeler.

I show you a photograph marked Commission Exhibit No. 2 and ask you if you recognize the scene in that picture?
General WALKER. Yes; I identify this picture looking approximately south down the alley, taken from about the entrance of where the alley enters the church, a few steps short of where the alley enters the church parking area. It is facing approximately south. Shows the back entrance to my back yard and the tree and my garbage can and the lattice fence on the west.

Mr. Liebeler.

The alley that runs down there is the alley that runs directly behind your house, isn't that correct?
General. WALKER. That is correct. And the direction we are looking is the direction in which it connects and joins Avondale Street.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you recognize that object in the background that looks like a building maybe under construction?
General WALKER. That is the bigger apartment house down south of me.

Mr. Liebeler.

I show you a photograph marked Commission Exhibit No. 1003, that is a copy of Exhibit No. 1003, and ask you if that larger apartment building shown in the right background of that picture is not in fact the same building that is shown as being under construction in Commission Exhibit No. 2?
General WALKER. As well as I can identify it, it looks like the same building.

Mr. Liebeler.

Looking further at Exhibit No. 1003, there is a house that is circled and indicated by the letter "A." That is, in fact, your house, is it not?
General WALKER. That is correct.

Mr. Liebeler.

And the street marked "E" is Turtle Creek Boulevard?
General WALKER. Yes, sir.

Mr. Liebeler.

Of course, the whole picture is an aerial view of the general vicinity of your house and the apartment building, is it not?
General WALKER. That is correct. And "H" would be Avondale.

Mr. Liebeler.

Yes; that's right. And "G" is Irving Street?
General WALKER. That I don't know. Probably is. The church alley shows up here going into Turtle Creek.

Mr. Liebeler.

Point that out to me, would you please?
General WALKER. Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

It is a little street that runs right between your house and the big building immediately next to your house just outside the circle?
General WALKER. Which is the Mormon Church.

Mr. Liebeler.

This is the church, is that correct?
General WALKER. And the car was right here I referred to.

Mr. Liebeler.

Just turning from the church alley?
General WALKER. Just turning here, and turning this direction.

Mr. Liebeler.

Turning left up Turtle Creek?
General WALKER. Yes.

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