Mr. Griffin. Right. By the time you got off the telephone what was your—and having seen Lady Bird Johnson and the priest and so forth?
Mr. Kantor. I still didn’t know that the President had been hit in the head, and when Congressman Thomas told me that a brain surgeon had been brought in, I knew then that he had been hit in the head but I didn’t know until that point even where he had been hit.
Mr. Griffin. Now, you have had a chance, I suppose, to talk with other newspaper people and other people who were present at Parkland Hospital since this event, have you not?
Mr. Kantor. Not in depth. I have had some conversations with people who were there.
Mr. Griffin. In your conversations with people who were there, have you gained any information that those who were in the area around Parkland Hospital attentive to what might be going on, had an idea or believed that the President was dead before the announcement was made by Mr. Kilduff?
Mr. Kantor. Well, I am sure I have not asked anybody outside of a couple of Congressmen I have talked to since then who were a lot closer to the situation than I obviously was at that time, and they really knew what was going on. And I haven’t asked anyone, I guess I felt no reason to ask and I don’t recall anyone volunteering that they specifically believed the President was moribund.
Mr. Griffin. I don’t want to push you into saying something——
Mr. Kantor. I am not aware of that.
Mr. Griffin. Now, do your notes here—do you have any notes here which reflect your observations in the Dallas Police Department from the time you arrived there until the time you left Dallas?
Mr. Kantor. Yes; I do.