Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Police officers on the third floor testified that they carefully
checked all persons for credentials, and most newsmen indicated that
after Batchelor imposed security they were required to identify
themselves by their press cards.[C5-74] Special Agent Sorrels of the
Secret Service stated that he was requested to present credentials on
some of his visits to the third floor.[C5-75] However, other newsmen
apparently went unchallenged during the entire period before Oswald was
killed, although some of them were wearing press badges on their lapels
and some may have been known to the police officers.[C5-76]
According to some reporters and policemen, people who appeared to
be unauthorized were present on the third floor after security
procedures were instituted, and video tapes seem to confirm their
observations.[C5-77] Jack Ruby was present on the third floor on Friday
night.[C5-78] Assistant Chief of Police N. T. Fisher testified that
even on Saturday “anybody could come up with a plausible reason for
going to one of the third floor bureaus and was able to get in.”[C5-79]
Oswald and the Press
When the police car bringing Oswald from the Texas Theatre drove into
the basement of police headquarters at about 2 p.m. on Friday, some
reporters and cameramen, principally from local papers and stations,
were already on hand. The policemen formed a wedge around Oswald and
conducted him to the elevator, but several newsmen crowded into the
elevator with Oswald and the police. When the elevator stopped at the
third floor, the cameramen ran ahead down the corridor, and then turned
around and backed up, taking pictures of Oswald as he was escorted
toward the homicide and robbery bureau office. According to one
escorting officer, some six or seven reporters followed the police into
the bureau office.[C5-80]
From Friday afternoon, when Oswald arrived in the building, until
Sunday, newspaper reporters and television cameras focused their
attention on the homicide office. In full view and within arm’s length
of the assembled newsmen, Oswald traversed the 20 feet of corridor
between the homicide office and the locked door leading to the jail
elevator at least 15 times after his initial arrival. The jail
elevator, sealed off from public use, took him to his fifth floor cell
and to the assembly room in the basement for lineups and the Friday
night news conference.[C5-81]
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