Mr. Griffin. About 12:30?
Mrs. Powell. That is what time it was, because when we went in, the television was on, and when we went in, Mickey turned the TV off.
Mr. Griffin. Did you take your friends with you?
Mrs. Powell. No; just Pete and I. His friends stayed over in my house and we came over here alone. When we went in, TV was on, and Mike turned it off, and we were sitting there talking, and Pete was looking for a job or something, so he said, “I have this friend that Mike had just gone to work in a bar out here at the Marriott or some place, and he said he had this friend that might be able to help Pete find a job. And he went to the phone and called him, and we were sitting in the living room, and he asked this guy, and the secretary said that he was outside. Anyway, I don’t know about that conversation, but all of a sudden he said, “Oh, no.” He was going on something terrible, and I thought what happened to his friend. So I said, “What happened to your friend?” And he didn’t answer. Then he came out of the bedroom and he said, the President has just been shot, he walked right to the TV and turned it on, and we thought it was a joke, that nothing like that could happen, it just couldn’t. And we were laughing and everything, and he turned it on, and they had the TV cameras out where he was supposed to make his speech. They announced it, and it was unbelievable.
Mr. Griffin. How long did you remain there?
Mrs. Powell. We didn’t remain very long. We just stopped by there for a minute, and we left there and came downtown. No; we went to Parkland Hospital. We were there long enough, because we found he was in Parkland Hospital. And Pete and I went over to Parkland Hospital.
Mr. Griffin. Did you arrive at Parkland Hospital before it was known that the President was dead?
Mrs. Powell. Yes.
Mr. Griffin. OK; go ahead.
Mrs. Powell. So, we went out there to the hospital.