European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              November 19m the stars and stripes the Warren commission testimony testimony before commission if i had seen91 could have pulled him down9 Washington is the Lent of testimony by John Kennedy june 9 before the Warren commission investigating the  of pres ident Kennedy the chairman chief Justice Earl the commission will be in the commission would just like to have you say in your own in your own what happened at the time of the assassination of the presi run Ken general coun set Lee Rankin will ask you a few just from the time you my the Airport until the time you started for the hos and we want it to be we want it to be in your own words and want you to say any thing that you feel appropriate to that witness sworn would you be Kennedy do you solemnly swear thai the testimony you give before the commission will be the truth the whole and nothing but the so help you god Kennedy i the chairman would you be Rankin state your name for the Kennedy Jacqueline Kennedy Rankin and you Are the widow of the former Preil Dent Kennedy Kennedy that i Rankin do you 11 Here in Washington Kennedy returns to Pallas Rankin can you Back to the time that Yon Cam to love Field on 22 an describe what happened ther after you landed in the plane Kennedy we got o the the then vice pres Dent and Johnson were they Cave us am then the cur was by there was a big crowd a with banners and every and we went to Shak s with it was a very hot a id you went All Alon a Long i tried to stay close to my husband and lots of time you get pushed you know people leaning Over and Pullin your they were be i dont know to e got Back to the i think Tan Gressman Thomas Al Ien Texas some Low was helping there was to of Rankin then you did it into the and you sat on be left Side of the did and your husband on your right Kennedy Rankin and was Kennedy in front of Rankin and governor Connally to your right in the ump seat Kennedy Rankin and con ally was in the jump seat Kennedy Rankin and then did fou Start off on the Parade route Kennedy Rankin and were there Many people along the route that of waved to Kennedy it was Ather scattered going once there was a crowd of people with a sign saying some Hong like president Kennedy Ilease get out and shake our our neighbors said you president left Rankin did you Kennedy and he Stop Ped and got that you like a Little suburb an there were not Many by then the crowds gut bigger As you went Rankin As you got int the main Street of Dallas wer there very Large crowds on Al the streets Kennedy and you waved to them and proceeded Down the Street with the motorcade Kennedy and 1 the you i Usua by would be waving mostly to the left Side and he was waving mos by to the which is on reason you Are not looking i each other very and was terribly just All of Rankin do to remember As you turned off the main Street Onlo Houston Street Kennedy i dont kno the name of the Rankin that is that on Block before you get to the depository Kennedy remember whenever it or Connally we will soon we could see a Tunnel in rant of everything was ally slow and i a Mem or thinking it would to so Cool under that Rankin and then do you member As you turned off of Ouston Onlo Elm right by the repository building Kennedy i dont now the names of the it i suppose right by the depository is what you Are talking nut Rankin yes that is the treet that sort of curves As you o Down under the Kennedy yes that is when she Connally Aid to president you certainly cant say that the people 1 Dallas Haven give you a ice memory falters Rankin what did he by Kennedy i think he dont know if i remember t or have read you cer mainly or and of know then the car was very Low and there we rent very Many people and then do you want me o Tell you what happened Rankin if you Kennedy you know Here is always noise in a motor Cade and Here Are always motorcycles besides a lot of hem so i was look no to the i guess there was a but it didst seem Ike any different noise really because there is so much noise motorcycles and but then suddenly governor Connally a noises and then he sort of did this put his hand to his redhead and fell in my and then i just remember fall no on him and no i on my have shot my i love i re Ember i was and just Wing Down in the car with his Ead in my and it just seemed an you there were cures later on of me climbing it the Back but i dont remember that at Rankin do you i Iii secret service gent Clinton Hill coming to by to help on the car Kennedy i Dent re Lember i was just own like and finally i remember a Olce behind or and then i remember the people n the front or Nally knew something was and a voice which must have been get to the or maybe Kellerman another secret service Man in the front but someone i was ust Down and holding him reference to wounds Rankin do you have any of whether there were one or More shots two sounds Rankin did he turn to Ward you Kennedy i a looking his to the and Leard these terrible to and my husband Neve made any so i turned to the and All i remember is seeing my he a this sort of quizzical look on h and his hand was must have been his led hand and just As i turned and looke at i could see a piece o his Skull and i remember it a i remember thin ing he just looked As if he a a slight and i remember seeing no blood or there must have been two because the sound lha made me turn around was governor Connally and 1 used to confuse me because firs i remembered there were three and i used u think my husband didst make any sound when he was and governor Connally and then i read the other Day that it was the same shot that hit them both but i used to think if i Only a been looking to the right i would have seen the first shot that i then i could have pulled him and then the Seconi shot would not have hit by 1 heard governor Connally Yel ing and that made me tur and As i turned to in right my husband was doing the indicating with hand to neck he was receiving a an those Are the Only two i re Mem and i read there was a thai but i dont just those you have any Revolte ton generally of the Speed thu of were not any precise were really slowing in Long the and there Ere very few did you Stop at any me after the or proceed bout the same Way dont ont think we but then As such and i was own in the car and everyone As Yelling to get to the bos ital and you could hear them on and then suddenly i member a sensation of enor Mous which must have been when we took sped to Hosp Tol then from there you proceeded As rapidly As possible o the is that right you recall anyone say no anything else during the time the shooting there we rent any there was lust governor and then i suppose Connally was sort of cry no and covering her Lut i dont remember any and there was a big Windshield Between you know i set there the you those poor men in the you  tear Rankin can you think of anything More the chairman i think i think that is the Story and is what we came we thank you very Blank Rankin i would just like to ask u you recall special agent Kellerman saying anything to you As you came Down the Street after you turned that Cor Ner that you referred Kennedy you mean before the shots i because you it is very hard for them to but i do not re just As i dont recall climbing out of the Back of the you have told us what you remember about the entire period As far As you can have you the chairman thank you very seemed to me to respond with no More than a pulled look slow secret service amazed Yarborough Washington a amaze ment at what he called the slow response of secret service agents when the assassins bullets rang out in Dallas was embossed to the Warren commission tar Ralph he indicated they didst act As fast As trained infantrymen or marines would have Yarborough was two can be Hind the limousine when John Kennedy was assassinated the car n was a specially Seq do Ped one carrying eight secret an affidavit to the Warren com they Are detailed in one of he volumes of evidence which the presidential commission Gath ered in preparing its report of the associated press has now obtained Access to Trostl Mony in some of the Yarborough told of hearing the and continued after the one of the secret service men sitting Down in the car in front of us pulled out on automatic Rifle or weapon and looked All the secret service men seemed to me to respond very with no More than a puzzled in until the automatic weapon was i had been lulled into a sense of false Hope for the presidents safety by the Lack of excitement or apparent visible knowledge by the secret service that any thing so dreadful was knowing something of the training that combat infantrymen and marines 1 am amazed at the Lack of instantaneous response by the secret when the Rifle fire the presidential investigating headed by chief Justice Earl said of the secret there is no Evi Dence that these men failed to take action in Dallas within their Power that would have averted the the commission had available u it other testimony beside Yar boroughs including Testi Mony that some agents stayed up late the previous night and drank the commission it is conceivable tha those men who had Little and who had consumed alcoholic even in limited might have been More Alert in the dal Las motorcade u they had re tired but the commission report also said that the instantaneous and heroic response to the assassination of some of the agents concerned was in the finest tradition of government Yarborough said he was giving his testimony not to distress but in Hopes it would be of use for the Protection of future he added a poignant detail by his description of a secret service Man lying across the trunk of the presidential automobile As it sped away toward a Hospital he beat the Back of the Cor with one his face contorted by anguish and de in their testimony to the com the two secret service agents Riding in Kennedy car itself indicated they reacted swiftly to the first indication o Roy the agent in charge of the who was Riding beside the said he swung around at the sound of the first shot and saw Kennedy with both hands at his that was enough for me to verify that the Man was he in the same to i come right Back and grabbed the speaker and said to toe lets get out of Here we Are hit and grabbed the and i said to the for Ward we Are hit get us to n Hospital he had completed the two com mands before the second and third shots were he describing the reaction of the secret service agent William he we just literally jumped out of the god Damn