Mr. WHALEY. About 2-1/2 miles, sir.
Mr. BALL. Two and one-half miles?
Mr. WHALEY. Approximately.
Mr. BALL. Two miles and four-tenths approximately.
Mr. WHALEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Can you give me any estimate of the time it took you to go
that 2-1/2 miles?
Mr. WHALEY. Not actually, sir. I run it again with the policeman
because the policeman was worried, he run the same trip and he couldn't
come out the same time I did. But he was turning off of Jackson and
Lamar when the light was wrong, and he was hitting a red light at
Wood--I mean at Austin and Jackson and he hit a red light at Wood and
Austin, then he hit a red light at Houston. Where I wait to make my
turn until the light is right just after it has been green, almost
ready for it to come red, turn right then, then the other lights turn
green just as fast as you get to them, go on right through, you save
about 2 minutes in traffic that way. That is where I got the 2 minutes
on him he never could make up. So I had to go back with him to make
that trip to to show him I was right.
Mr. BALL. How much time, in that experiment, when you hit the lights
right, how long did it take you?
Mr. WHALEY. Nine minutes.
Mr. BALL. Nine minutes?
Mr. WHALEY. Nine minutes.
Representative FORD. Now on this particular trip with Oswald, do you
recall the lights being with you?
Mr. WHALEY. They were with me, sir; for I timed them that way before I
took off. Because I made that so much that I know the light system and
how they are going to turn.
Representative FORD. So this was a typical trip?
Mr. WHALEY. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. The witness has been driving a taxicab in Dallas for 36
years.
Mr. WHALEY. Thirty-seven, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Thirty-seven.
Mr. WHALEY. You name an intersection in the city of Dallas and I will
tell you what is on all four corners.
Mr. BALL. Did you stop and let your passenger out on this run on the
north or south side of the intersection?
Mr. WHALEY. On the north side, sir.
Mr. BALL. North side?
Mr. WHALEY. Yes.