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. BEATY. They are listed on the back of that, the best I remember.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You have listed on page 32, of what we have labeled
Commission Document 85 (Beaty Exhibit 5040), the names of about a dozen
police officers. Did you see all these people come down together, or
these people that you remember as having been in the basement?
Mr. BEATY. They came--let me read them.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me read them for the record. B. H. Combest. J. H.
Hutchinson.
Mr. BEATY. Those two, boy, they are supposed both special service
officers, too, and I don't know how in the world they could have
received word unless they called and told them to come down, because
they were the only ones from the special service bureau down there with
me at the time. I can't remember them getting off the elevator at the
time, but Captain Martin----
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me read them. W. J. Harrison.
Mr. BEATY. Yes; I remember him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Wilbur Jay Cutchshaw. James Watson.
Mr. BEATY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. L. D. Miller.
Mr. BEATY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. R. L. Lowery.
Mr. BEATY. Yes; he was on.
Mr. GRIFFIN. J. Charles Goolsby?
Mr. BEATY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. W. E. Chambers.
Mr. BEATY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Captain Frank Martin.
Mr. BEATY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Lieutenant W. Wiggins?
Mr. BEATY. No; he wasn't. He was a jail supervisor. He was already down.
Mr. GRIFFIN. R. C. Wagner?
Mr. BEATY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. That is the complete list.
Mr. BEATY. They must have been on two elevators.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, have these men that you saw come down, Harrison,
Cutchshaw, Watson, Miller, Lowery, Goolsby, Chambers, and Martin, were
all those people attached to the juvenile bureau?
Mr. BEATY. No; Chambers is forgery. Goolsby is juvenile. Lowery is
juvenile. Wagner, I believe, is forgery. Watson is auto theft. Harrison
is juvenile. I don't know where Miller works.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about Cutchshaw?
Mr. BEATY. Cutchshaw is juvenile. Hutchinson and Combest are both
special services.
Mr. GRIFFIN. But Wagner was not in the elevator?
Mr. BEATY. Yes; he was with them.
Mr. GRIFFIN. He came down in the elevator?
Mr. BEATY. Yes; Wiggins wasn't.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Wiggins wasn't in the elevator. Now, when these men got
off the elevator, what did they do? Where did they go?
Mr. BEATY. Walked straight out there in front of the elevator to the
windows by--are you familiar with that place down there?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes; I am.
Mr. BEATY. What I call it, where you go through that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Might as well call it the window in front of the jail
office, if that is where it was.
Mr. BEATY. That's right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am going to sketch a diagram of the basement. Did they
go through the swinging doors?
Mr. BEATY. We waited right about here.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You are indicating just about at the first window of the
jail office as you come from the elevator?
Mr. BEATY. That's right.
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