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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VII - Page 50« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Gerald Lynn Hill)

Mr. Belin.
South as you face the screen. All right, now.
Mr. Hill.
So I went through the north lower door.
Mr. Belin.
All right.
Mr. Hill.
Came down the north stairway, and the commotion would have been to my right or just south of the center of the theatre near the back. Went over, and as I ran to them I saw some officers struggling with a white male.
I reached out and grabbed the left arm of the suspect, and just before I got to him I heard somebody yell, "Look out, he's got a gun."
I was on the same row with the suspect. The man on the row immediately behind him was an officer named Hutson. McDonald was on the other side of the suspect from me in the same aisle.
Two officers, C. T. Walker and Ray Hawkins, were in the row in front of us holding the suspect from the front and forcing him backwards and down into the seat. And to McDonald's right reaching over, and I don't recall which row he was on, was an officer named Bob Carroll. And then Paul Bentley and K. E. Lyons, who was Carroll's partner, they were both in the special service bureau, also was there. They came up at various intervals while all this was going on.
We finally got the man subdued to the point where we had control of him and his legs pinned and his arms pinned. I said, "Let's handcuff him." And being that I was working in plainclothes and working in personnel, didn't have a pair of handcuffs, and I asked Hawkins if he had. And he said, "Yes."
And I said, "Let's get them."
And Hawkins and I handcuffed him while the others held him.
Mr. Belin.
You said you were working in plainclothes?
Mr. Hill.
Yes.
Mr. Belin.
Did you have any hat on?
Mr. Hill.
Yes; I did have a hat.
Mr. Belin.
I want to hand you what I will mark as G. L. Hill Deposition Exhibit A, and ask you to state if you know what this is.
Mr. Hill.
Yes, sir; this is a picture that was made about the time when we were actually putting the handcuffs on the suspect in the theatre. That may have been a split second before or a split second after, or right as we completed the putting on of the handcuffs.
Mr. Belin.
Do you recognize any people in there?
Mr. Hill.
This would have been the suspect [pointing].
Mr. Belin.
Now, the suspect is a man who you can see parts of the profile from the left side of his face. He appears to be seated or lower than the others?
Mr. Hill.
Lower than the other people in the picture.
Mr. Belin.
Then there is a person with a hat on to the right.
Mr. Hill.
To the immediate right of the suspect, and that is me.
Mr. Belin.
Then there is a man with a cigar who is looking over the suspect?
Mr. Hill.
That is Detective Paul Bentley.
Mr. Belin.
Now there is a person with light-colored hair that appears to have his hands----
Mr. Hill.
That would be C. T. Walker.
Mr. Belin.
Then there is another person that is in the extreme left-foreground part of the picture. Do you know who that is?
Mr. Hill.
Capt. W. R. Westbrook.
Mr. Belin.
Then a party with a hat on. Do you know who that is?
Mr. Hill.
I have no idea.
Mr. Belin.
That is to the left?
Mr. Hill.
No, sir.
Mr. Belin.
Then there is, you can barely see maybe a police hat. Is that anything you can recognize?
Mr. Hill.
Not from that; no, sir.
Mr. Belin.
All fight, go ahead, sir. You say that you and Ray Hawkins handcuffed the suspect?
Mr. Hill.
At about this time Captain Westbrook and a man who was later in the day identified to me as, I believe his name was Barnett, an FBI agent ----
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