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The second guy who was shooting, he shot a number of times,

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I don’t remember how much, and then he handed the gun to this woman

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who was with him, who I didn’t up to that time didn’t know

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she was with him. But she got up and took the gun from that fella,

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and she had what I thought was her coat draped over her left arm.

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She started shooting and the gun, being an automatic gun,

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it got away from her. The recoil went up like this,

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and that’s how some of the bullets hit the ceiling. Today those holes

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are still there, if you know. And then she finished.

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Well in the meantime while she was doing that, that second fellow

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that gave her the gun was being wrestled to the floor. By this time

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the other visitors in the gallery came to their senses

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as to what was going on and so they started wrestling this guy,

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and they wrestled him to the floor. Then she quit shooting.

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And she...I don’t know what she did with the gun; she might

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have dropped it or kept it. But anyhow, she unfurled what I had

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up that point thought was her coat, her overcoat hanging over her arm,

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but it wasn’t. She unfurled—it turned out to be—the Puerto Rican flag.

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These people were Puerto Rican nationalists, as I understand,

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a group of people that wanted to secede from the United States.

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And they were trying to draw attention to themselves. Well, they did.

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They drew attention to themselves in a negative way, of course.

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So she shouted out something, and I learned later that

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I think it was something like “Viva la Puerto Rico!,” or

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something like that. She waved the Puerto Rican flag like this;

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she just shook it, like you would shake a rug, you know.

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Then she threw it down to the ground and somebody wrestled her

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to the floor, also. And that was it. In the meantime,

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while all the shooting was going on, I remember just standing there

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in the archway too dumb to drop to the floor and hide,

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and too surprised. I could hear those bullets going

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alongside me . And one of them

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landed to my right which is about from here to that wall there,

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about eight feet away from me where Bill Emerson was sitting

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in the overseer’s chair, the Page Overseer. And a bullet landed just above

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his head by about, oh, maybe three, four feet. That bullet landed there.