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. Do you know of your own knowledge whether there was any
security as to the entrance to the city hall's first floor?
Mr. STEVENSON. Oh, only what Captain Talbert advised me, that they did
have it sealed off and had the elevators stopped on the first floor and
nothing to come below the first floor of the city hall proper.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know about what entrances do exist to the city hall
municipal building's first floor?
Mr. STEVENSON. Yes.
There is an entrance off of Main Street. There is an entrance off of
Commerce Street. There is also an entrance into what we call a freight
elevator off the alley on the east side which the alley runs between
Commerce and Main and right up to the east side of the city hall.
To my knowledge, those are the three entrances to the city hall proper
other than from the basement and the elevators up from the basement.
Mr. HUBERT. Isn't there a corridor, however, that leads from the first
floor of the city hall to the first floor of the police department?
Mr. STEVENSON. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know what security there was with respect to that
corridor?
Mr. STEVENSON. To my own knowledge, Mr. Hubert, I don't know other than
he did have, Captain Talbert said he had men on the first floor of the
police and courts building and I believe that you will find a steel
gate that closes off the police and courts building from the municipal
building.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know whether that gate was closed?
Mr. STEVENSON. No, sir; I do not. I did not inspect that.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know whether the entrance to the first floor of the
municipal building on Main and Commerce were locked or not locked?
Mr. STEVENSON. I did not inspect them; no, sir. I do not know of my own
knowledge, but usually on a Sunday, those doors are locked.
Mr. HUBERT. Is that statement true about the door on the alley?
Mr. STEVENSON. To my knowledge, only the maintenance crews have keys.
Mr. HUBERT. Now were any policemen assigned to any of those three
entrances from the outside into the first floor of the municipal
building? To wit, Main Street entrance, Commerce Street entrance, and
the service door on the alley?
Mr. STEVENSON. To my own knowledge, I don't know whether Captain
Talbert told me that he had security on the outside of the doors of the
city hall and the municipal building, but I did not go out and check
those to see.
Mr. HUBERT. Were you aware then--that is to say, on November 24th, of
the position of two reserve officers called Brock and Worley?
Mr. STEVENSON. Not by name; no, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know that there were two reserve officers in the
basement area, one of them near the elevators and one of them near
the----
Mr. STEVENSON. This is a driveway into the parking area.
Mr. HUBERT. The driveway into the parking area proper?
Mr. STEVENSON. To my own knowledge, no, sir; I don't. I did not go back
to the elevators over here to check on that. My officers were in this
general area in here.
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