COUNTY OF DALLAS
SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
SUPPLEMENTARY INVESTIGATION REPORT
Name of Complainant:
To: MR. DECKER:
November 27, 1963
Offense
Details of offense, progree of investigation etc:
(Investigating officer must sign)
Date: Nov 27th, 1963
I, and officer Orville Smith were standing on the curb in front of Criminal Courts Bldg., appx. 40 ft. East of Houston St., when the car bearing Pres. Kennedy passed. Appx 1 min. after the car turned right onto Houston St. we heard 3 shots. Officer Smith said to me "That sounded like a Deer Rifle." We saw people running toward the parkway and ran in that direction. Officers and People were running to the parkway on north side of Elm. I went to the rail yards and parking area west of the book store and helped search this area.
I talked to a city officer who said "I was stationed in rail yards and had this entire area in view. No body came this way." I then went to the Book Building and saw that several Sheriff's Dep. Were going in along with a large number of city officers. I did not go into the Bldg.
I took 1 man to S. O. to talk to officer Lummy Lewis. I did not learn the mans name and do not know what he told officer Lewis. I did not take any further part in inv.
/s/ W.W. Mabra