Johnny Calvin Brewer Tracks Oswald

Johnny Calvin Brewer saw a man who seemed anxious to avoid the police. The Warren Report summarizes his testimony about what he saw the afternoon of November 22, 1963:

"Shortly after the Tippit murder, police sirens sounded along Jefferson Boulevard. One of the persons who heard the sirens was Johnny Calvin Brewer, manager of Hardy's Shoestore, a few doors east of the Texas Theatre. Brewer knew from radio broadcasts that the President had been shot and that a patrolman had also been shot in Oak Cliff. When he heard police sirens, he 'looked up and saw the man enter the lobby,' a recessed area extending about 15 feet between the sidewalk and the front door of his store.

"A police car made a U-turn, and as the sirens grew fainter, the man in the lobby 'looked over his shoulder and turned around and walked up West Jefferson towards the [Texas] theatre. The man wore a T-shirt beneath his outer shirt and he had no jacket. Brewer said, 'He just looked funny to me. ... His hair was sort of messed up and looked like he had been running, and he looked scared, and he looked funny.' "

Brewer followed the suspicious-looking man to the Texas Theatre and saw him enter the building.