Miss Mitchell. Yes; I did.
Mr. Ball. Tell me in your own words what you noticed and what you heard after the President's car passed; what did you see and what did you hear?
Miss Mitchell. Well, the President's car passed and, of course, I watched it as long as I could see it but, as I remember, immediately behind it was a car full of men with the top down and quite a few of them were standing and I assumed they were Secret Service men, so after the car turned the corner and started down the hill, I couldn't see over the heads of the standing men for very long, so then I turned back to watch the other people in the caravan, whatever you call it, and probably about the time the car in which Senator Yarborough was riding had just passed, I heard some reports. The first one—there were three—the second and third being closer together than the first and second and probably on the first one my thought was that it was a firecracker and I think on the second one I thought that some police officer was after somebody that wasn't doing right and by the third report Jim Crawford had said the shots came from the building and as I looked up there then we realized that if the shots were coming from that building there was bound to have been somebody shooting at the people in the cars.
Mr. Ball. You heard Jim Crawford say something about if they were shots—what were his words exactly?
Miss Mitchell. Well, I'm not sure that he said—I think he just said, "Those shots came from that building," just assuming that everybody could have figured out by then that they were shots.
Mr. Ball. Did you look at the building?
Miss Mitchell. Yes; I did.
Mr. Ball. Did you see anybody in any of the windows?
Miss Mitchell. I don't remember. I understand there were some porters that were leaning out of the fifth floor windows but I don't remember whether I saw them or not. I know where I thought he was pointing and where I was looking I couldn't see anybody so I never was sure which window he thought he was pointing to.
Mr. Ball. Was he pointing?