Hargis: Right.

Bethell: But the actual - the fact that you were behind the car suggests that the shot in fact came from the front and right of the car.

Well, that right there is what I've wondered about all along, but see there's ah -- you've got to take into consideration we were moving at the time, and when he got hit all that stuff went like this, and of course I run through it.

Hargis: Well, that right there is what I've wondered about all along, but see there's ah -- you've got to take into consideration we were moving at the time, and when he got hit all that stuff went like this, and of course I run through it.

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Hargis: "Well, like I say, being that we know that the shot came from the School Book Depository, right then it was kind of hard to say what run through your mind. You know you pick up these little things. You don't know why you do it. You don't know why you do 'em, you just do 'em. It's just kind of instinct. But I had in my mind the shots you couldn't tell where they was coming, but it seemed like the motion of the President's head or his body and the splatter had hit me, it seemed like both the locations needed investigating, and that's why I investigated them. But you couldn't tell, there was -- it looked like a million windows on the Book Depository. You couldn't tell exactly if there was anyone in there with a gun.

Oser: So, in your opinion as a police officer and you're feelings from having been there, it is also possible, is it not, that the shot could have come from the front of the vehicle as you indicated to the Warren Commission as well as you are now saying that it could have come from the Book Depository? It could have come from anywhere.

Hargis: Uh huh. That's correct.

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Oser: Did his head jerk when he was hit?

Hargis: Yes. Uh huh.

Oser: Which way did his head jerk? Or pop?

Hargis: To the left forward. Kind of that way.

Oser: Over on his...

Hargis: Left shoulder.

Oser: Left shoulder. Could you see what part of his head got hit?

Hargis: No I couldn't see what part of it got hit.

Oser: Would you say that he was hit in the rear of the head, the side of the head, or the front of his head?

Hargis: If he'd got hit in the rear, I'd of been able to see it. All I saw was just a splash come out on the other side. (NARA record number 180-10096-10005, discovered by Joel Grant)