DS: Was there a storm that night?”
JR: Yeah. There sure was. It was a whale of a storm.
DS: Did you hear anything unusual? Did you hear ... between the cracks of thunder...
JR: Well, it lit up the sky when it came down. It lit up the damned ... we thought at first that it was falling star or something. And electric lightning ... man it was something.
DS: You heard something and you saw something...
JR: Yeah, sure did ... because we were laying there in the back of the pick up ... the whole sky lit up ... we thought it was a star falling.
DS: Did you then go to check it out...
JR: Sure did. The next day, sure did. We drove right up on it. She picked up a piece of it and we had the jeep parked a little ways away from there and throwed a piece of it up there somewhere and I have tried and tried to find where she had throwed that piece ... she had a piece but when she saw the army coming she throwed it out ... she saw them a coming and she throwed it out ... I doubt that I could even go back to the place it’s been so long. (Now begin to talk about the car wreck that nearly killed him.)
Remainder of the tape is discussion about the car wreck, the ranchers in the area, and the murder of Mrs. Ragsdale’s brother.
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