Mr. Liebeler. Did you have any idea where they came from?
Mr. Smith. No, sir—like I said—the first two were just—I mulled it over in my mind and I thought it was firecrackers and I thought to myself that was awful—not very nice—throwing them out there, and then it dawned on me that it wasn't and that these were shots, especially after I ran to the corner, and this was after the third shot was fired that I got to the corner, and all I saw was the Presidential car going under the underpass, but there were definitely three of those shots.
Mr. Liebeler. What did you do after you left the general area marked "C" here, on Exhibit No. 354?
Mr. Smith. Well, of course, you see we checked all these cars—this extends for some distance over to the north and I went all the way down the railroad tracks a long ways and turned around and came back and took a position right down here where No. 1 is now—this was about an hour or an hour and a half after the thing happened, and I don't guess it was that long, because they had just got the word—I had already gotten back around here when Officer Tippit was shot and we got the word over the police radio, and they took off and I stayed in this area for quite some time around the front, working traffic, and I don't remember when I really left.
Mr. Liebeler. So, after you searched behind the north and west of the School Book Depository Building, you came back up to position No. 1?
Mr. Smith. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. You then remained in the general area of the School Book Depository Building for some period, and then you were relieved from duty?
Mr. Smith. Well, I went back to work again on my regular duty. I had been working evenings, and I had to report to work—it was 6 o'clock, I think, and after that I went directly to work.
Mr. Liebeler. You didn't see anybody or anything that you could associate with the shots or with the assassination itself other than you have already described?
Mr. Smith. No, sir; I have thought about it many times. I didn't see any smoke or anything.