The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Q: Oh, I see, you retired from the mortuary business...
A: Oh, yeah. I was in the funeral business 33 years.
Q: All the time with Ballard?
A: Oh no, I had my own funeral home over in Las Cruces [N.M.],
and one in Soccoro [N.M.].
Q: Oh, okay.
Speaking of that, do you know Norman Todd or his family?
A: His dad and I took the state board together. He was at Clovis
[N.M.]. Norman’s his son isn’t it?
Q: Yeah. He’s a lawyer over in Las Cruces [N.M.]. His.,.
A: Wasn’t his dad the funeral director in Clovis [N.M.]?
Q: I think so. The reason I know him is because Mike Cook,
who is Steve Schiff’s press secretary, and he have been friends ever since
they were in kindergarten together. It turns out that Iris Todd, I guess his
stepmother, is the niece of Loretta Proctor. So talk about small world.
You got these calls from the mortuary offtcer who was asking you
all these questions. We don’t have to go back through all of this. Then at
some point you decided to go out to the base. What took you to the base?
A: At some point I didn’t decide, that’s not correct. Somebody
wrote that, but I don’t think it’s right. The way I ended up out at the base
later, we had the ambulance service. The way I got it, the ambulance service,
I got a call, was an airman that was hurt. I took him to the base. The best I
remember, he wasn’t on a stretcher or anything because we walked up the
ramp and he sat up in the front seat with me. So he weren’t real bad and
weren’t dying. Anyway... This guy walked in, I walked him in. Where I
usually park the ambulance, there was a tield ambulance there. I had to go
back up to the front. The airman and I walked up the ramps. That’s why I
went to the base.
Q: The hospital in those days was apparently a complex of
buildings, right?
A: Yeah. Kind of like Bob [Shirkey] said, like the offtcer’s club,
They’re all wooden barrack types.
Q: So the building that’s out there now, the rehab center is a
completely new building and had nothing to do with that.
A2 [Bob Shirkey]: No. Think of a long walkway, like a tunnel,
attached to the front of a series of...
Q: I know just what you’re talking about
A: ,..with a little of breezeway between each building, the best I
remember it. Isn’t that right, Bob?
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