Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. HUBERT. Any of the news people there then?
Mr. STEVENSON. Yes, sir; there were a few. This camera had been moved.
They were back over in this area back in here.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, now, you are indicating on the chart that they had
been moved to what is called there the parking area?
Mr. STEVENSON. Parking area of the basement; yes.
Mr. HUBERT. All right; go ahead.
Mr. STEVENSON. We returned back upstairs to the third floor. Chief
Lumpkin and I went to the second floor to the patrol captain's office.
Captain Talbert came up to the office and asked us to have a cup of
coffee with him, which we did. He asked us at this time about the time
of the route of the transfer. We told him at that time that we didn't
know definitely, but that we believed that it would be east on Commerce
to Central, north on Central to Main, and west on Main to the county
jail.
Mr. HUBERT. You say that you were not certain of that information, but
that you had gathered it? Could you expand on that and tell us where
you think you got that information? As far as you are concerned, then,
there had been no plans that you knew of as to the route?
Mr. STEVENSON. Not the exact route at 9:45 or 10 o'clock, somewhere in
that area. He asked us what route it would travel, and we told him that
we believed that it would go up to the Central Expressway and west on
Main at that time.
Mr. HUBERT. When you used the pronoun "we," whom do you mean?
Mr. STEVENSON. Chief Lumpkin and I.
Mr. HUBERT. So that the route, so far as you knew it at that time,
would be out of the Commerce Street exit, turning left, going beyond
Pearl Street, which was one way against the direction which you wanted
to go, and then over to North Central Expressway?
Mr. STEVENSON. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Turning left again and going to Main Street, turning left
again, and then all the way down Main to Houston?
Mr. STEVENSON. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he give any instructions, or did he indicate what he
was going to do in connection with that plan?
Mr. STEVENSON. He said that he would call 10 men from his outside
patrol and place one at each intersection on the route that would be
taken to the county jail, which, as I said, at that time we figured
would be Main Street, and he did make necessary arrangements.
Mr. HUBERT. All right then; go ahead.
Mr. STEVENSON. After we had drunk a cup of coffee, we returned back to
the third floor and were advised a few moments later--Chief Batchelor
advised me that the man had called him and that he was preparing to
send the truck now. We again went to the basement, he and I, to see
about the arrival of the armored truck.
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