Twyla Chocte Oral History

Twyla Chocte's aunt, Dorothy Ann Garner, was an office supervisor for the Scott Foresman publishing company's regional office inside the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. She observed the Kennedy motorcade from the building's fourth floor. In an FBI interview on March 20, 1964, she recalled, "I heard three loud reports which I first thought to be fireworks but only seconds later realized something had happened on the street below although at the time of the shots, the Presidential car was out of view behind a tree. I thought at the time the shots or reports came from a point to the west of the building." Garner also stated that she did not know Lee Harvey Oswald. At the time of the assassination, Garner was standing next to a coworker, Elsie Dorman, who captured a unique home movie of the motorcade from the building's fourth floor: Elsie Dorman film – Search dorman (Objects) – Search – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Twyla Chocte was one of seven people interviewed during an outreach visit to the Layden Senior Center in Forney, Texas on February 26, 2019. - Stephen Fagin, Curator