I was splattered with blood... then I felt something hit me. It could have been concrete or something, but I thought at first I might have been hit.

When President Kennedy straightened back up in the car the bullet hit him in the head, the one that killed him and it seemed like his head exploded, and I was splattered with blood and brain, and kind of a bloody water... well, at the time it sounded like the shots were right next to me. there wasn't any way in the world I could tell where they were coming from, but at the time there was something in my head that said that they probably could have been coming from the railroad overpass, because I thought since I had got splattered, with blood-I was just a little back and left of- just a little bit back and left of Mrs. Kennedy, but I didn't know. [Hargis ran up the knoll embankment.]