Two other witnesses were able to offer partial descriptions of a man they saw in the southeast corner window of the sixth floor approximately 1 minute before the assassination, although neither witness saw the shots being fired.[C4-287] Ronald Fischer and Robert Edwards were standing on the curb at the southwest corner of Elm and Houston Streets,[C4-288] the same corner where Brennan was sitting on a concrete wall.[C4-289] Fischer testified that about 10 or 15 seconds before the motorcade turned onto Houston Street from Main Street, Edwards said, “Look at that guy there in that window.”[C4-290]
Fischer looked up and watched the man in the window for 10 or 15 seconds and then started watching the motorcade, which came into view on Houston Street.[C4-291] He said that the man held his attention until the motorcade came because the man:
* * * appeared uncomfortable for one, and secondly, he wasn’t watching * * * he didn’t look like he was watching for the parade. He looked like he was looking down toward the Trinity River and the Triple Underpass down at the end--toward the end of Elm Street. And * * * all the time I watched him, he never moved his head, he never--he never moved anything. Just was there transfixed.[C4-292]
Fischer placed the man in the easternmost window on the south side of the Depository Building on either the fifth or the sixth floor.[C4-293] He said that he could see the man from the middle of his chest to the top of his head, and that as he was facing the window the man was in the lower right-hand portion of the window and “seemed to be sitting a little forward.”[C4-294] The man was dressed in a light-colored, open-neck shirt which could have been either a sports shirt or a T-shirt, and he had brown hair, a slender face and neck with light complexion, and looked to be 22 or 24 years old.[C4-295] The person in the window was a white man and “looked to me like he was looking straight at the Triple Underpass” down Elm Street.[C4-296] Boxes and cases were stacked behind him.[C4-297]
Approximately 1 week after the assassination, according to Fischer, policemen showed him a picture of Oswald.[C4-298] In his testimony he said, “I told them that that could have been the man. * * * That that could have been the man that I saw in the window in the School Book Depository Building, but that I was not sure.”[C4-299] Fischer described the man’s hair as some shade of brown--“it wasn’t dark and it wasn’t light.”[C4-300] On November 22, Fischer had apparently described the man as “light-headed.”[C4-301] Fischer explained that he did not mean by the earlier statement that the man was blond, but rather that his hair was not black.[C4-302]