One of the reporters—I don’t know who—got on the phone and contacted the Dallas police, and talked to Chief Stevenson and discovered that the President had been shot and had been taken to Parkland Hospital.
Mr. Griffin. Let me interrupt you here just a minute. Do you recall the route that you took from the scene of the shooting to the Parkland Hospital?
Mr. Kantor. We went on to the Stemmons Expressway immediately, and took the expressway to a point immediately adjacent to the trade mart. I don’t know what the little road is that goes off of it.
Mr. Griffin. How long would you say that it took you to drive from the scene of the shooting to the trade mart?
Mr. Kantor. We were traveling at a speed of about 65–70 miles an hour. I guess it would be 4 or 5 minutes.
Mr. Griffin. And about how long did it take from the time you got out of that bus and ran up and down your four flights of stairs until the one press representative was able to make a telephone call?
Mr. Kantor. I would guess about another 4 or 5 minutes.
Mr. Griffin. All right. Now, after he made the telephone call, what happened—what did you do?
Mr. Kantor. I shouted to a couple of the other reporters that I was familiar enough with Dallas and would get a taxicab. And someone who was there to attend the function for the President overheard me and volunteered the service of his station wagon. He gave us his name, but I didn’t write it down, and don’t remember it.
About eight of us got into the station wagon. And outside of the reporters who were in the pool car behind the President, we were the first group of reporters to arrive at the hospital.