Mr. HUBERT. Touching each other?
Captain TALBERT. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And about three ranks back toward Main Street?
Captain TALBERT. That is my impression, yes, sir, about three ranks
back.
Mr. HUBERT. Describe "Area B," then?
Captain TALBERT. And "Area B," you had a railing as indicated here by a
dotted line. In front of that railing you had at least two or--probably
three ranks of people all the way down to the turnoff area, which is
the beginning of "Area C." In the center of "Area D," there were two
fixed cameras.
Mr. HUBERT. Television cameras?
Captain TALBERT. Television cameras, yes, sir. The others were movie or
still cameras and other cameramen, or strictly reporters, and in "Area
C," we had a fairly dense group in the immediate Main Street side, and
two to three ranks over towards the Commerce Street side dividing it in
half.
Now, immediately after Lieutenant Pierce informed me of the change in
plans, we had to remove the people from the ramps so that he could
get out on the Main Street side, and they immediately closed back up,
and as he cleared the parking area to enter the ramp, a plain white
or light-colored car pulled onto it, and pulled up behind the armored
car on the Commerce Street side, and another plain light-colored car
attempted to pull up behind him, but he wasn't up far enough, so, we
had to holler at them to pull up a little further, which he did. That
car was attempting to back in, and had to cut to the left in order to
back up the vehicle--go to the right to get back into the jail-office
entrance. That was my understanding of his efforts to do, and the news
media was crowding in on him, so, that there was danger of him running
over them with his vehicle, should it move. So, I was by the left front
fender of that vehicle, Chief Batchelor was to my right, Captain O.
A. Jones to my left and we were--and one or two--perhaps more reserve
officers were there, too, pushing the news media back to let that car
have room to maneuver.
Mr. HUBERT. I am going to mark on the map an area which I am marking
auto and----
Captain TALBERT. All right, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. With the understanding that the front of it indicated by an
arrow is pointed toward Commerce Street?
Captain TALBERT. All right, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. All right. Now, would you mark the circle where you were
about the time of the event you have just described?
Captain TALBERT. This auto is angled in here.
Mr. HUBERT. Maybe we had better angle it then.
Captain TALBERT. Would you like that black pen?
Mr. HUBERT. You do it. We, are changing the blue-pen marking because
Captain Talbert indicates that the automobile was on an angle, and he
is now marking it with the black pen. Would you put the word "auto," in
that, please. Now, draw a circle and indicate where you were standing.
Captain TALBERT. I was standing by the left front fender of the car, as
I previously said.