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...main house. The Vice President, says San Miguel, shook his hand and promised to cooperate as they sat down to talk. Cheney, he says in the report, confirmed that he was part of a three-car hunting party consisting of himself, Harry Whittington, Ambassador Willeford, the two Armstrong women, and a three-man hunt team...
...Harry Whittington had walked up from behind and had positioned himself approximately 30 yards to the west of him," according to San Miguel?s report. Cheney told the deputy that Whittington was standing on lower ground and as a result was hit in the face and upper body. "Katharine Armstrong told me pretty much the same story Mr. Cheney told me," he wrote...
...Whittington did speak of the incident and explained foremost there was no alcohol during the hunt and everyone was wearing the proper hunting attire of blaze orange," writes San Miguel. "While looking for the downed birds, he [Whittington] had returned back at one point to the hunting vehicles.." Katharine Armstrong, who was sitting with her sister Sarita, told him to go for the second covey. "Mr. Whittington again reiterated that this incident was just an accident. He was concerned this incident would bring a bad imagine [sic] to hunting in Texas." After that, the interview got cut off because...
...wasn?t until Tuesday-two days after the shooting-that the deputy went back to the scene of the shooting in Comal pasture, about 4 miles west of US Highway 77, which runs by the Armstrong ranch. That day, he asked for affidavits from the Armstrong women, as well as from Willeford and the guide...
...Sheriff Salinas?s report says he first got a call Saturday around 5:30 p.m. from Capt. Charles Kirk about a possible hunting accident on the Armstrong ranch. He told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper he was barbecuing with his family when he was reached. Then, about 10 minutes later, a Secret Service agent called the sheriff at home to officially notify them of the accident and the involvement of Cheney. Kirk, meanwhile, had been rebuffed at the Armstrong gate by a Border Patrol agent who knew nothing about the accident. Salinas says in his report he decided...