Re-direct examination by Hermione Granger:
Q: Why didn't you fire when you got on line?
A: I don't know. There was a lot of firing going on and I couldn't tell whether it was incoming or outgoing.
Q: Weren't you ordered to fire into that village?
A: I don't remember whether the orders was to fire when we hit the ground.
Q: Wasn't everyone else firing?
A: I don't know.
Q: When did you first see a Vietnamese?
A: Right after we landed. In an open field.
Q: Did you fire?
A: No.
Q: Why not?
A: I didn't have orders to fire.
Q: Was he a resident of the village?
A: He was a Viet Cong, yes.
Q: Then why didn't you fire?
A: I didn't have my orders to fire.
Q: Didn't you get orders to kill him from Medina?
A: No. And besides, he was being guarded.
Q: When did you see the next Vietnamese?
A: In the village. He was thirty to fifty years old.
Q: Did you shoot him?
A: Yes.
Q: Why?
A: I was ordered to by Sergeant Mitchell, I believe. And besides, why take chances?
Q: Then you gathered up people. Why?
A: That was my orders. It ain't my reason to say why.
Q: When Lieutenant Calley came up and said, "Take care of these people," why did you continue to guard them?
A: I figured he just wanted me to guard them.
Q: Why didn't you shoot them?
A: I figured maybe he wanted to hold them for interrogation.
Q: What did you do?
A: I held my M-16 on them.
Q: Why?
A: Because they might attack.
Q: They were children and babies?
A: Yes.
Q: And they might attack
A: They might have a had a fully loaded grenade on them. The mothers might have throwed them at us.
Q: Babies?
A: Yes.
Q: Then why didn't you shoot them?
A: I didn't have no orders to kill them right then.
Q: Why didn't you fire first when Lieutenant Calley said, "I want them dead?"
A: Because Lieutenant Calley started firing first. I don't know why I didn't fire first.
Q: What were the people doing when Lieutenant Calley arrived?
A: They were sitting down.
Q: The women, the children and babies were sitting down?
A: Yes. Q: Did they attack you?
A: I assumed at every minute that they would counterbalance. I thought they had some sort of chain or a little string they had to give a little pull and they blow us up, things like that.
Q: What did you do?
A: I just watched them. I was scared all the time.
Q: How many people did you take to the ditch?
A: Seven or eight people.
Q: Why didn't you shoot these people rather than take them with you?
A: I assumed we was going to hold them for interrogation.
Q: Why didn't you kill them?
A: I didn't have my orders to kill them. It ain't my reason to figure what they was going to do with them. It was just natural procedure to hold them for questioning.
Q: Captain Medina's orders did not change that standard operating procedure for these seven or eight people, to hold them for interrogation?
A: No.
Q: What changed the order?
A: Lieutenant Calley said, "We've got another job to do, Potter."
Q: You said you were under emotional strain. Can you describe the strain?
A: Just I was scared and frightened.
Q: At what?
A: At carrying out the orders.
Q: Why?
A: Because nobody really wants to take a human being's life
Q: But they were Viet Cong, weren't they?
A: Yes, they were Viet Cong.
Q: And it was your job?
A: It was my job, yes.
Q: What were the children in the ditch doing?
A: I don't know.
Q: Were the babies in their mother's arms?
A: I guess so.
Q: And the babies moved to attack?
A: I expected at any moment they were about to make a counterbalance
Q: Had they made any move to attack?
A: No.
Q: When you left the ditch, were any of the people standing?
A: Not that I remember.
Q: Did you see anyone who was not shot?
A: I can't say. I didn't get down and check them out.
Q: Did you see anyone who wasn't shot?
A: There might have been a few. I didn't check 'em out.
Q: Now, Mr. Potter, one last question: Did Lieutenant Calley or did Captain Medina order you to kill?
A: I took orders from Lieutenant Calley. But--
Harry: That's all.