Mr. Hill.

I do.

Mr. Belin.

All right. Sergeant, could you, please state your name.

Mr. Hill.

Gerald Lynn Hill.

Mr. Belin.

What is your occupation?

Mr. Hill.

Sergeant in the Dallas Police Department.

Mr. Belin.

How long have you been with the Dallas Police Department?

Mr. Hill.

Since March 7, 1955.

Mr. Belin.

How old are you, Sergeant Hill?

Mr. Hill.

Thirty-four.

Mr. Belin.

Where were you born?

Mr. Hill.

Ferris, Tex.

Mr. Belin.

Did you go to School there?

Mr. Hill.

No, sir; I went to school in Dallas.

Mr. Belin.

How far did you get through school?

Mr. Hill.

Went through high school.

Mr. Belin.

Then what did you do when you got out of high school?

Mr. Hill.

Went to work for the Dallas Times Herald. Worked there from January of 1948 until April of 1954.
At the time I resigned there, I was radio-television editor for the paper.
Went from there to the Dallas Bureau of WBAP-TV in Fort Worth, and worked for them until March the 21st, 1958.
The last 2 weeks I was working for them, I was attending the police academy for the police department.

Mr. Belin.

Then you went in the police department?

Mr. Hill.

I went with the police prior to quitting. I turned in my notice with WBAP and they let me work it out while I attended the police school, because I was actually hired on a Saturday, and the police school started on Monday, and I wanted to leave on good terms with one place and start to school on time with the other, so they worked out an agreement with me.

Mr. Belin.

Were you on duty on November 22, 1963?

Mr. Hill.

Yes, sir; I was.

Mr. Belin.

Where were you on duty?

Mr. Hill.

I was on special assignment, detached from the police patrol division, and assigned to the police personnel office investigating applicants for the police department.

Mr. Belin.

Where was this?

Mr. Hill.

On that particular day, I was at the city hall in the personnel office, and did not have an assignment of any kind pertaining to the President's trip or any other function other than the investigation of police applicants.

Mr. Belin.

When did you leave the city hall?

Mr. Hill.

The President had passed the corner of Commerce or excuse me, Main and Harwood, turned off Harwood onto Main, and proceeded west on Main.
I had watched it from the personnel office window, which is on the third floor of the police and courts building, and Capt. W. R. Westbrook, who was my commander, had apparently been on the streets watching the parade, and he came back in and we were discussing some facts about how fast it passed and the police unit in it, and we had seen the chief's car in it, and how Mrs. Kennedy was dressed, and we were sitting in the office when a lady by the name of Kemmey, I believe is the way she spelled it, came in and said that the President had been shot at Main and Lamar.
Our first reaction was one of disbelief, but a minute later----she just made the statement and walked out--and a minute later Captain Westbrook said, "She wasn't kidding."
And I said, "What do you mean?"
And he said, "When she is kidding, she can't keep a straight face."
And figuring it was true, the dispatcher's office would be packed to the gills, so I walked down to the far end of the hall on the third floor where there is an intercom box connected to the radio from the dispatcher's office, and also you can hear the field side of the intercom of anything that is said to the police radio, and this is down in the press room.
I stood there for a minute and I heard a voice which I am almost sure was