(Testimony of Emmett J. Hudson)
Mr. Hudson.
Yes; I think so.
Mr. Liebeler.
Are you sure about that?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes, sir; I am.
Mr. Liebeler.
So, you had to look up Elm Street?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes; I was looking up this way, you see. You see [indicating on photograph], that's the motorcade car right there, isn't it?
Mr. Liebeler.
Yes; the picture that we are looking at here is a picture of a re-enactment of the scene.
Mr. Hudson.
Yes; so right along about even with these steps, pretty close to even with this here, the last shot was fired---somewhere right along in there.
Mr. Liebeler.
You think that the last shot was fired and the car was about where it actually is in that picture when the third shot was fired?
Mr. Hudson.
Pretty close to it; yes, sir.
Mr. Liebeler.
But you think the President had already been hit in the head by the time the third shot was fired?
Mr. Hudson.
He had been hit twice, so Parkland Hospital said. He was hit in the neck one .time and in the head one time.
Mr. Liebeler.
When the first shot was fired, were you looking at the presidential car then; could you see it then?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes; it was coming around--it had just got around the corner, you see, from off of Houston Street, making that corner there, come off of Houston onto Elm.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did it look to you like the President was hit by the first shot?
Mr. Hudson.
No, sir; I don't think so--I sure don't.
Mr. Liebeler.
You don't think he got hit 'by the first shot?
Mr. Hudson.
No.
Mr. Liebeler.
You say it was the second shot that hit him in the head?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
What happened after the President got hit in the head, did you see what he did, what happened in the car?
Mr. Hudson.
He slumped over and Mrs. Kennedy, she climbs over in the seat with him and pulls him over.
Mr. Liebeler.
Pulled him down in the seat?
Mr. Hudson.
Pulled him over in her lap like.
Mr. Liebeler.
If you don't think the President got hit by the first shot and you say he got hit 'm the head with the second shot----
Mr. Hudson.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
And if we assume that he was hit twice, you would have to say that he was hit by the third shot; isn't that right?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
He was hit again after he got hit in the head?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you think that could have been possible when Mrs. Kennedy pulled him over, do you think he could have got hit in the neck after he had been hit in the head?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes, sir; I do.
Mr. Liebeler.
He was still sitting far enough up in the car he could have been hit?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you watch the President after he got hit in the head like that?
Mr. Hudson.
Well, as soon as everybody realized what had happened, you know, everybody went to going up the hill so we did too.
Mr. Liebeler.
So, you only saw the President hit once; is that right, sir?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes, sir; I just saw him hit once.
Mr. Liebeler.
That was in the head?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Liebeler.
And you aren't able to say from your own observation when he was hit in the neck?
Mr. Hudson.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
If he was hit in the neck.
Mr. Hudson.
No, sir.
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