JFK Assassination Hearings - H.B. McClain
JFK Assassination Hearings - H.B. McClain
(02:02:02) Opens with Deputy Chief Counsel GARY T. CORNWELL questioning H.B. McClain, police motorcycleman on JFK motorcade, about his and the cycle escort's positioning relative to each other and the motorcade (02:03:07) Cornwell introduces three photographs as exhibits, they are blow ups of frames from a movie of the motorcade, Cornwall has McClain identify the streets shown in the photographs and identify himself in the photographs (02:07:50) Cornwell asks if McClain heard any shots - McClains says he heard one, gives his location at that time and describes what he saw, which was a flock of pigeons taking off in flight around the book depository, McClain says then he got the order on the radio to go to Parkland hospital (02:09:30) Cornwell asks McClain about his radio use and channel that day (02:10:23) Cornwell asks McClain about what happened after he received the order to go to the hospital and how long it took him to catch up with the limosine - McClains explains (02:11:45) Cornwell has McClain describe the distinguishing characteristics of his motorcycle and then identify his bike and himself in a group of photographs Cornwell gives him (the photographs are not seen by the camera or gallery) (02:16:45) Cornwell asks McClain if based on his proximity to a fellow police cycleman during the motorcade, as revealed in a photo, if it was possible he could have heard the order to go to Parkland Hospital from this other officer's radio - McClain says it is possible - McClain then moves that the photographs be taken into consideration by the committee and adds that one of them suggests that McClain's radio was on Channel 1 (02:22:20) McClain tells the committee it was a common occurrence that his microphone relay was left on without his knowledge, he and Cornwall speculate as to why (02:23:44) Committee Chairman LOUIS STOKES asks Counsel Professor ROBERT BLAKEY to establish the chain of evidence for the Dallas Police tape, Blakey can only verify that the tape is of the police transmissions for the day of the assassination, he cannot however trace it to McClain's motorcycle (02:27:58) Stokes recognizes Representative SAMUEL DEVINE, Devine asks McClain a couple questions about his microphone and motorcycle (02:29:07) Stokes recognizes Representative ROBERT EDGAR, Edgar asks McClain a couple of questions about McClain's radio, trying in vain to get at evidence that McClain's radio was in the microphone mode (02:31:23) Stokes recognizes Representative FLOYD FITHIAN, Fithian asks McClain if he saw any activity around the grassy knoll - McClain responds that he saw Officer HARGAS (?) going up the knoll (02:32:16) Stokes recognizes Representative CHRISTOPHER DODD, Dodd asks how McClain can identify himself in the blown up photographs of the JFK motorcade taken from a film of the motorcade - McClain says he can identify himself by the way he is sitting on the motorcycle - Dodd and Delegate WALTER FAUNTROY joke playfully with McClain about how he sits that he can distinguish himself 15 years later in a photograph (in the photos the motorcyclemen's position seems to have nothing extrordinary about it)