AFFIDAVIT IN ANY FACT

THE STATE OF TEXAS

COUNTY OF DALLAS

Before me, the undersigned authority, on this the 22nd day of November A.D. 1963 personally appeared Jean Newman, Address: 3893 Clover Lane, Dallas, Texas, Age 21, Phone No. FL 2-4222.

Deposes and says:

My name is Jean Newman. I live with my parents, my father's name is G. O. Kimbriel. I work at the Rheam Manufacturing Company.

I was standing right on this side of the Stemmons Freeway sign, about half-way between the sign and the edge of the building on the corner. I was by myself, there were other people around watching the motorcade. The motorcade had just passed me when I heard that I thought was a firecracker at first, and the President had just passed me, because after he had just passed, there was a loud report, it just scared me, and I noticed that the President jumped, he sort of ducked his head down and I thought at the time that it probably scared him, too, just like it did me, because he flinched, like he jumped. I saw him put his elbows like this, with his hands on his chest.

By this time, the motorcade never did stop, and the President fell to his left and his wife jumped up on her knees, I believe it was, in the back of the car on her knees, I couldn't say that for sure. And I realized then it had been a shot. I looked in the car and she was on her knees, and he wasn't even visible in the car. I looked around then, and everyone was running every which way, I don't know why I didn't run, I just stood there and backed up and looked around to see if I could see anything, but I saw no one whatever with anything that resembled a gun or anything of that kind.

I just heard two shots. When it happened, I was just looking at the President and his wife, and when she jumped up in the car, I had my vision focused on her, and I didn't see anything else, about the others in the front of the car.

The first impression I had was that the shots came from my right.

                                                                                /s/ Jean Newman

Subscribed and sworn to before me on this the 22nd day of Nov A. D. 1963

                                                                                /s/ James J. Mulcahy

                                                                                Notary Public, Dallas County, Texas

 

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