Mr. Rankin. Where were you with reference to Lieutenant Revill at that point?
Mr. Brian. I think I was on his, probably his right-hand side.
Mr. Rankin. Close to him?
Mr. Brian. Fairly close; yes, sir.
And so we walked over to meet, kind of cornered, you cross paths and we walked up there to meet Jim, and he said, he came up there and he said, that Lee Oswald, a Communist, killed the President, and then Revill said, "What?" He said, Lee Oswald, a Communist, killed the President.
He was in—nervous—in a hurry, and was just talking.
And then he said, he said that he knew that he was a Communist and he knew he worked in the Book Depository, and then Lieutenant Revill said something else to him, I am not—I don't know what he said, and they walked off in front of me going in around and in through the door over to the elevator to go up, and then we accompanied Agent Hosty up to Captain Fritz' office which is on the——
Mr. Dulles. Was the elevator there at the basement floor when you took it or did you have to wait?
Mr. Brian. We had to wait just a very short time on it. It wasn't standing open waiting; no, sir.
We had to wait on it just a very short time, I believe, and we went up to the third floor, and Hosty and Lieutenant Revill went in there and talked. I went to the door and just stepped inside and waited and then we went back downstairs to our office which is on two, right underneath Captain Fritz' office.