Mr. COMBEST. And until you got used to them it was pretty hard to look
into them.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you get used to them?
Mr. COMBEST. Yes, sir; I was pretty well used to them at the time the
actual transfer took place.
Mr. HUBERT. So, you could distinguish faces of people in "area B"?
Mr. COMBEST. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Could you distinguish faces in "area A"?
Mr. COMBEST. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. The lights gave you no trouble by the time the transfer
actually took place, is that correct?
Mr. COMBEST. Yes, sir; that's correct.
Mr. HUBERT. All right. When did you first see Ruby in that crowd?
Mr. COMBEST. Just as they started to lead Oswald past me, at the corner
there I observed him lunge from the crowd. Almost the whole line of
people pushed forward when Oswald started to leave the jail office, the
door, the hall--all the newsmen were poking their sound mikes across
to him and asking questions, and they were everyone sticking their
flashbulbs up and around and over him and in his face. I don't--when he
first lunged forward I don't think anyone noticed him. I didn't until
he came apart from the crowd and continued on towards Oswald.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, did he come from the area--we have marked on this
Exhibit 5100 as "area A" or as "area B," sir?
Mr. COMBEST. The best I could tell he would be coming approximately
half way between them there, between what you have marked as "area A,"
and "area B."
Mr. HUBERT. Sort of from the corner there?
Mr. COMBEST. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. I would like for you to take the pen and mark an "X" on the
spot that you first saw Ruby.