oswald lives at 1026 north meckley. he is an employee of a book-binding firm in the building which the police and secret servicemen believe the president was shot today. mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. everybody in the emergency room, the hospital was on the first floor they came and said we would have to remove the remains to a casket. lyndon johnson ordered that body be brought immediately to air force one. so there was a little tug of war. they almost shook the crucifix off the top of the coffin as they were trying to get that coffin out of the hospital. took him in and put him in the hearse and one of the secret
jail. bill, what s the situation. i m presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it s like an armed camp. accomplish officials are frankly worried. they don t want anything to happen to oswald. let me have it. i want it. led but eye captain fritz. there is lee. he s been shot. he s been shot. lee oswald has been shot. there is a man with a gun. it s absolute panic. absolute panic here in the basement of the dallas police headquarters. detectives have their guns drawn. there is no question about it. oswald has been shot at point blank range. fired into his stomach. he s shot. he is shot.
transfer lee into the regular prison during the night to avoid the press, and then someone must have overruled them so that lee could be photographed by the press during the transfer. we re standing by waiting the transfer of oswald from city jail to county jail and for that report, here is abc s bill lord at the city jail. bill, what is the situation? i m presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it s like an armed camp. police officials are frankly worried. they don t want anything to happen to oswald. it is through this corridor of newsmen, photographers and policemen that lee oswald will be brought to a vehicle for transfer to the dallas county jail, a distance of about 15 blocks, which ironically is just across from the scene where president kennedy was assassinated on friday.
here comes the ambulance. and oswald will be removed now. the ambulance is being pulled up in front of us here. here comes oswald, he s he is ashen and unconscious at this time, now being moved in. he is not moving. he s in the ambulance now. and attendants, police are quickly climbing in. the ambulance is leaving dallas police headquarters. where will he be taken? i m assuming parkland hospital. parkland hospital. the irony of ironies, the place where president john f. kennedy died. dallas city hall is normally a public building, but today it was really under armed guard. we is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting?
president johnson will have to take into his hands the reins of the most powerful nation in the world. is there any doubt in your mind, chief, that oswald is the man that killed the president? i think this is the man that killed the president, yes, sir. is there any evidence any one else may have been linked with oswald to this shooting? at this time we don t believe so. i don t know what this is all about. did you kill the president? no, sir, i didn t. how did you get the black eye? sir? did you shoot the president? i work in that building. were you in that building at the time? naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. back up, man. did you shoot the president? no they re taking me in because of the fact that i lived in the soviet union. i m just a patsy. this is room 317, homicide bureau here at the dallas police station.