Mr. Crawford. Yes.
Mr. Ball. Before I ask you about your report, did you have any impression as to the source of the sound, from what direction the sound came, the sound of the explosions?
Mr. Crawford. Yes; I do. As I mentioned before, the sound, I thought it was a backfire in the cavalcade from down the hill, down the hill toward the underpass.
Mr. Ball. You mean west on Elm?
Mr. Crawford. Yes, and that was a little confusing and in analyzing it later, evidently the report that I heard, and probably a lot of other people, the officers or the FBI, it evidently was a sound that was reflected by the underpass and therefore came back. It did not sound to me, ever, as I remember, the high-powered rifle sounding. It was not the sharp crack.
Mr. Ball. What caused you to look up at the Texas School Book Depository Building?
Mr. Crawford. The sound had to be coming from somewhere; the noise was being made at some place, so I didn't see anyone shooting firecrackers or anything else and I thought "this idiot surely shouldn't do such a thing," but if they were, where were they, and if they were shots, where were they coming from, and that caused me to search the whole area on Houston Street and in front of the Texas Depository on Elm Street and then up and that's how I happened to be looking up at the time, rather than observing things in the street, probably.
Mr. Ball. Did you ever see any smoke?
Mr. Crawford. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. Ball. In your remark to Mary Ann Mitchell, did you say "if those were shots, they came from that window"?