Mr. Cabell.

and wheeled in. And I helped escort the carriage on into the hospital into the anteroom and stayed there until the body was removed.

Mr. Hubert.

Did you happen to go to the room in which a press conference was held, at which the official announcement was made of the President's death?

Mr. Cabell.

I was not in when any official thing--I assumed that the President was dead.

Mr. Hubert.

I was trying to get the anteroom or hallway that you described. Where was this with reference to the outside door of the hospital, or the emergency room, or something of that sort?

Mr. Cabell.

Well, this was in the emergency section. There is a large anteroom with a glassed-in enclosure where telephones were, and then off from that larger room was a narrow anteroom from which a series of operating rooms connected.
The President was in one of those, and directly across this little hallway then was where Governor Connally was.

Mr. Hubert.

Were there any news people in that area?

Mr. Cabell.

Yes; I am sure there must have been. I don't recall any whom I recognized personally.

Mr. Hubert.

Specifically, do you know a reporter, newspaperman now with Scripps-Howard, by the name of Seth Kantor?

Mr. Cabell.

I can't recall.

Mr. Hubert.

Now there is some information, Mr. Cabell, that Jack Ruby was around the hospital some place, either near the entrance or near the pressroom, or something of that sort. And, of course, I take it that you now know what he looks like, from pictures in the press?

Mr. Cabell.

Well, I knew him by sight.

Mr. Hubert.

You knew him by sight prior to this?

Mr. Cabell.

Yes.

Mr. Hubert.

How long had you known him?

Mr. Cabell.

I would say for several years.

Mr. Hubert.

Did you see him around the hospital then at any time?

Mr. Cabell.

No; I did not.

Mr. Hubert.

And you stayed until the President's body was removed?

Mr. Cabell.

Yes.

Mr. Hubert.

What did you do after that, sir?

Mr. Cabell.

We went--Mrs. Cabell accompanied me and went back to Love Field. There was a number of members of the Texas delegation to the Congress who had accompanied the President and Vice President on the trip down here, and I more or less took them in tow and secured a station wagon from the vehicles that were outside the hospital and carried them, at the direction of one of the Secret Service agents who was more or less in charge in there, to the Southwest Airmotive side of Love field, which is the eastern side, because he advised me that Air Force I would take off from that side. So there was some with us in our car, and then the station wagon with the additional ones. When we got to Southwest Airmotive, Air Force I was still parked on the west side of the field where they had deplaned the passengers earlier. Realizing that it was going to take off rather quickly, I asked the public relations man for Southwest Airmotive to get on the radio and contact the Air Force officer in charge through the control tower as to what to do about these men, whether to bring them over to that side, or was the plane going to come over there.
We did not get a direct answer, but the squad car of the Dallas Police Department, which is assigned to Love Field, came over and got us, apparently through clearance of the control tower, and carried us right straight across the field. Apparently they stopped any movement to get us across the field. Then those men were able to board the plane.

Mr. Hubert.

Well, after you left the field, after Air Force I had left, what was your activity then, sir?

Mr. Cabell.

We stayed there on the ground until after Air Force I had taken off with the body of the President. We conferred for a few minutes with Sheriff Bill Decker and Chief of Police Curry. Chief Curry was in the plane and a witness to the swearing in of President Johnson. Shortly after it took off, then Mrs. Cabell, and I returned home. We dropped Mrs. Cabell off, and