Mr. JENNER. From the floor.
Mr. SURREY. From the floor? Well, the police went into the next room
and so did I, and sighted through the hole in the wall to the window.
Mr. JENNER. Yes, sir.
Mr. SURREY. And when Walker sat down at his desk, it went right through
his head.
Mr. JENNER. So he was seated on a chair substantially the height of the
one you are seated on?
Mr. SURREY. Yes, and he is approximately a little taller than I am.
Mr. JENNER. He is a little taller than you are. So that would be about
4, 4-1/2 feet.
Tell the Commission the distance from the wall, the point at which
you have marked an "X" with a circle, and the place at which General
Walker's chair was located.
Mr. SURREY. I would say 18 inches.
Mr. JENNER. He was that close?
Mr. SURREY. To the wall there; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. So that the representation you have made on Commission
Exhibit No. 1014 is distorted?
Mr. SURREY. Yes; it is. The desk was right up against the wall, and he
was seated in the middle of the desk.
Mr. JENNER. His chair was much closer to the wall than would appear to
have been as you have roughly diagramed on Exhibit No. 1014?
Mr. SURREY. That is correct.
Mr. JENNER. All right. In other words, he was close enough to the wall
when seated at that chair so that when a bullet penetrating the plaster
wall could have splattered plaster into his hair?
Mr. SURREY. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Proceed, sir.
Mr. SURREY. So I went over and looked at his arm, and there was a piece
of metal in one particular spot in his arm, that I noticed, in addition
to the other scratches, and I went looking for some first aid equipment
and found tweezers upstairs, and came back downstairs and picked that
piece of metal and two others out of his right forearm.
Mr. JENNER. And what was done with those pieces of metal?
Mr. SURREY. They were--I believe the police took them.
Mr. JENNER. But you recall that you, in fact, yourself took the pieces
of metal from General Walker's right forearm?
Mr. SURREY. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And--all right. Go ahead, sir.
Mr. SURREY. Well, then it became just a matter of the police
questioning the general and myself. I don't recall which detective or
which policemen and myself went out in the back and looked in the back
area.
Mr. JENNER. Is that what you did next, after you took the metal out of
General Walker's forearm?
Mr. SURREY. Yes.