RECORDING NYDA-#146-114A-114G. INTERROGATION OF Gerald Bingham, Jr.
QUESTION: What time was it then?
WITNESS: I don’t know exactly. It was after four in the morning.
QUESTION: What happened then?
WITNESS: Suddenly five policemen burst into my bedroom. They came in through the French doors leading to the terrace. Three of them were colored. The man in front was colored. They were all carrying weapons. The first man had a machine gun in his hands, and he said to me, “Who are you?”
I said, “I am Gerald Bingham junior, and I live in this apartment.”
He looked at me and said, “You the kid that sent out the report?”
“Yes,” I said, “I sent out a shortwave transmission.”
He grinned at me and said, “You get yourself out on that terrace.”
I told him I was crippled and couldn’t move because they had taken away my wheelchair and my crutches.
He said, “Okay, you stay right where you’re at. Where they at?”
“Down on the fourth floor,” I told him. “I think they’re all on the fourth floor, right below us.”
“Okay,” he said, “we’ll take care of them. You stay right where you’re at and don’t make no noise.”
They all started out of the apartment. I called after them, “Please don’t kill him,” but I don’t think they heard me.