Mr. GREER. This was for the third shot.
Mr. SPECTER. Yes, sir.
Mr. GREER. This is "C." This not having an idea really of how much
footage is in there at all. I wouldn't----
The CHAIRMAN. I didn't understand.
Mr. GREER. I said I wouldn't probably know, Mr. Chief Justice, how many
feet would be in that distance, I would be guessing how many feet.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes; I understand.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you have any opportunity to observe the overhead as
you were driving along after the last shot occurred?
Mr. GREER. No, sir. I was fairly close to it, to the best of my memory,
and I was trying to watch then where I was going. I had to look ahead
to see, I was catching up on the lead car real fast, and I had to watch
what was ahead of me.
Mr. SPECTER. How fast was it possible to accelerate your automobile at
that time?
Mr. GREER. Well, it is a very heavy automobile, and it does not pick up
too fast on account of the weight. I have never tested to see how many
feet I could travel in a second. I have never had any reason to test it
to see how much I could travel. But it was in low gear at that time,
and that helps you to accelerate a lot faster.
Mr. SPECTER. Would you characterize it as a very rapid or a rapid
acceleration?
Mr. GREER. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Or how would you characterize it?
Mr. GREER. It is a very smooth car taking off anyway, and I would say
it wasn't rapid. It is fairly fast in low gear but not rapid like a
light car will be.
Mr. SPECTER. Does that car have an automatic transmission?
Mr. GREER. Yes, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. And what are the varieties of forward speeds in the
vehicle?
Mr. GREER. It has a low gear and then it has drive one and drive two.
It has two top gears. One has, one probably has, free wheeling more
than the other. The other is not a free wheeling gear.
Mr. SPECTER. How fast can the car be driven in the low gear?
Mr. GREER. I would say safely you can drive it up to 40 miles an hour
in low gear. That is estimating it at 40.
Mr. SPECTER. From the time of the first shot until the time of the
third shot, was your car moving in a straight line or in an arc or how
would you describe it?
Mr. GREER. I was following the contour of the road, the center of the
contour of the road as it goes.
Mr. SPECTER. What is the path of the contour of the road?
Mr. GREER. Well, at the time I didn't think much of it but it is a
little, there is a little bend in the road going to the underpass.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you hear anyone in the car say anything from the time
of the first shot until the time of the third shot?
Mr. GREER. Not to the best of my recollection, I don't remember.
(At this point, Representative Boggs entered the hearing room.)
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. SPECTER. Mr. Greer, did you hear anyone say anything from the time
of the third shot until the time of arrival at Parkland Hospital?
Mr. GREER. No, sir; I didn't. I didn't hear, I can't remember hearing
anyone say anything at all. We were quite preoccupied to get to the
hospital as fast as we can, as we could, and that was my mind was
really occupied on what I was doing. I didn't hear anything.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know what speed you were traveling at en route to
the hospital?
Mr. GREER. No, sir; I couldn't say. I was just getting through the
traffic and through the streets as fast as I could get through.
Mr. SPECTER. Would you have any estimate at all on speed?
Mr. GREER. I would estimate that I must have been doing 40 or 50, at
least 50 miles an hour at times. We might have been going as fast as 50
miles an hour, I am sure.
Mr. SPECTER. When you accelerated your automobile, did you at any time
come alongside of or pass the police car in front of you?
Mr. GREER. No, sir; I never passed it. I came up alongside one or two
motorcycle men and I called to them "get to a hospital fast". You know,
I called to them "hospital".
Mr. SPECTER. Were you led to the hospital?
Mr. GREER. Yes, sir; I was led to the hospital by the police car who
was preceding me.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you have any independent knowledge of the route from
where you were?
Mr. GREER. No, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. From the point of assassination to the hospital?
Mr. GREER. No, sir; I didn't.
Mr. SPECTER. Were you escorted by any other automobiles besides the
police car in front of you?
Mr. GREER. We had motorcycles and I don't know if there were other
police cars out in front of that or not. I am sure there may have been,
but I couldn't say right now.
Mr. SPECTER. Was there any radio communication between your automobile
and the hospital at any time prior to your arrival at the hospital?
Mr. GREER. No, sir; not between the hospital and our car.
Mr. SPECTER. Did Mr. Kellerman have any radio contact at all with
anyone in addition to that which you have already described?
Mr. GREER. He may have had some more communications to the car, the
lead car, but I can't remember what they were now.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you observe any bullets strike any portion of the car
or ricochet in any way during the course of the shooting?
Mr. GREER. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you observe any bullets or fragments of bullets at
rest in the car after the shooting terminated?
Mr. GREER. No, sir; I didn't. I left the car at the hospital and I
didn't see it any more until the next day.
Mr. SPECTER. I hand you Commission Exhibit No. 349, Mr. Greer, and ask
if you are able to identify what that picture represents?
Mr. GREER. That represents the windshield of the car.
Mr. SPECTER. Of the President's car?
Mr. GREER. Yes, sir; it looks like the windshield of the President's
car.