Mr. Scoggins.

left New York I went to Connecticut to join the CCC camp and stayed there 3 years.

Mr. Belin.

CCC camp?

Mr. Scoggins.

Yes, sir. And then I went back to Texas.
The first thing I done was open up a cafe down there and operated it about a year, and from there went to Waco and worked in a cotton mill, and then I moved back to west Texas to a little town about 18 miles out of Waco, and lived there, and done farmwork for a couple or 3 years, and then I moved to Dallas.
I think late in 1941, and I worked for Newhoff Packers in Dallas for 2 years, and then I went into the aircraft business and worked for North American approximately 3 years, and then I went into the contracting business for about a year, and went to General Dynamics, worked there approximately 15 1/2 years, and then I have been working for the company, taxicab company, for a couple of years.

Mr. Belin.

You have been driving a cab for 2 years?

Mr. Scoggins.

No, not quite 2 years.

Mr. Belin.

A little bit less than 2 years?

Mr. Scoggins.

A year and 9 months. I don't know exactly when I started.

Mr. Belin.

Where were you driving your cab in the early part of the afternoon of November 22, 1963, if you remember?

Mr. Scoggins.

Well, I picked up a gentleman at Love Field at approximately 12:35, I would say, and I discharged him at 1 o'clock at 321 North Ewing.

Mr. Belin.

Then where did you go?

Mr. Scoggins.

I went around by the Gentlemen's Club which I believe is 125 Patton.

Mr. Belin.

What did you do there?

Mr. Scoggins.

I pulled up and parked at the corner of Patton and 10th and went back down to the club. At first, whenever I passed by, one of the guys hollered at me and asked me did I know the President had been shot, and I made the remark that I had not heard that one. I found a place to park and I came back, and he came back there in a couple of minutes and told me the facts about it. I thought it was some kind of a joke.
So I had to go plumb up to the corner of 10th before I could find a parking place, and I parked right there on the corner and went back and got me a coke and watched the deal, watched the television.

Mr. Dulles.

Would you speak a little louder, please; I can't quite hear.

Mr. Scoggins.

I got me a coke and watched television for a few minutes, I would say 10, 12, 15 minutes, there, and went out to eat my lunch.

Mr. Dulles.

What were you seeing on television?

Mr. Scoggins.

The deal about the President getting assassinated; and when I got back to my cab and got my lunch, and, well, I noticed a police car cruising east there on 10th Street.

Mr. Belin.

Where was your cab parked with relationship to the intersection of Patton and 10th?

Mr. Scoggins.

Well, it was headed north on Patton, facing 10th Street, on the right-hand side of the street, right close to where the stop sign had been.

Mr. Belin.

Now, the right-hand side of the street would be the east or the west?

Mr. Scoggins.

It would be the east side. I was headed north.

Mr. Belin.

All right. Were you on the north side of the intersection or the south side of the intersection?

Mr. Scoggins.

South side.

Mr. Dulles.

How near the intersection were you?

Mr. Scoggins.

Right near. They had a stop sign there and someone had had a wreck previously, I don't know, the sign was down. It was laying there, it had been bent over.

Representative Ford.

Was this a normal stop for you, or how did you happen to be stopped there?

Mr. Scoggins.

Well, I just went around just like I say. We can take our lunch hour anytime, you know; we can call in and say we are going to be out of