Enlargement of photograph taken by Thomas C. Dillard on November 22, 1963.
Dillard Exhibit D
Photograph taken by Thomas C. Dillard on November 22, 1963.
James N. Crawford and Mary Ann Mitchell, two deputy district clerks for Dallas County, watched the motorcade at the southeast corner of Elm and Houston. After the President’s car turned the corner, Crawford heard a loud report which he thought was backfire coming from the direction of the Triple Underpass.[C3-34] He heard a second shot seconds later, followed quickly by a third. At the third shot, he looked up and saw a “movement” in the far east corner of the sixth floor of the Depository, the only open window on that floor.[C3-35] He told Miss Mitchell “that if those were shots they came from that window.” When asked to describe the movement more exactly, he said,
* * * I would say that it was a profile, somewhat from the waist up, but it was a very quick movement and rather indistinct and it was very light colored. * * *
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When I saw it, I automatically in my mind came to the conclusion that it was a person having moved out of the window. * * *[C3-36]
He could not state whether the person was a man or a woman.[C3-37] Miss Mitchell confirmed that after the third shot Crawford told her, “Those shots came from that building.”[C3-38] She saw Crawford pointing at a window but was not sure at which window he was pointing.[C3-39]
On the Fifth Floor
Three Depository employees shown in the picture taken by Dillard were on the fifth floor of the building when the shots were fired: James Jarman, Jr., age 34, a wrapper in the shipping department; Bonnie Ray Williams, age 20, a warehouseman temporarily assigned to laying a plywood floor on the sixth floor; and Harold Norman, age 26, an “order filler.” Norman and Jarman decided to watch the parade during the lunch hour from the fifth-floor windows.[C3-40] From the ground floor they took the west elevator, which operates with push-button controls, to the fifth floor.[C3-41] Meanwhile, Williams had gone up to the sixth floor where he had been working and ate his lunch on the south side of that floor. Since he saw no one around when he finished his lunch, he started down on the east elevator, looking for company. He left behind his paper lunch sack, chicken bones and an empty pop bottle.[C3-42] Williams went down to the fifth floor, where he joined Norman and Jarman at approximately 12:20 pm.[C3-43]