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. No, sir; I sure don't. There were so many of them, and guys
had them on their shoulders, and little tape recorders, and one thing
all over the joint.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, I am talking only about TV cameras, the big things
that set on a tripod as opposed to little movie cameras.
Mr. BEATY. They had some of the shoulder cameras.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I wasn't thinking of them. I am just talking about the
stationary cameras.
Mr. BEATY. I suppose I didn't pay any attention to them at all.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am only talking now about the instructions that you
remember that came from Captain Jones. Do you have any idea as to what
you were to do when Oswald got abreast of you?
Mr. BEATY. Yes, sir. He told us we would keep this aisle clear, and at
this time the cameras were run in and out of this door and something
through this door, and around here, and then he returned in about 3 or
4 minutes later and said, "All you people from the press move back into
the driveway." And I will indicate it by a dotted line across here.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Okay.
Mr. BEATY. And over into the driveway entrance of the parking area from
the Commerce Street, Main Street ramp. Would you want a dotted line?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes. Let me ask you a question about that. What is your
best estimate of the number of people that were over in the garage
entrance area?
Mr. BEATY. Counting the people here behind the camera?
Mr. GRIFFIN. No; not counting the people behind the camera.
Mr. BEATY. Right along in here?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes; along the dotted line.
Mr. BEATY. Thirty-five or forty.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was that congested?
Mr. BEATY. No; it wasn't. You can get that many people in. It is a
pretty wide area. Looks like it might be 50 feet across there, if this
is 15.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, across that 50-foot area, was there just a single
line across there?
Mr. BEATY. They could be doubled or tripled. They were all scattered
out, of course. But there seemed like there was some congestion right
around there and behind the cameras.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Will you draw a half circle in the area or quarter circle
in the area where the congestion was?
Mr. BEATY. Right along in here, best I remember.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, did there appear to be people standing behind the TV
cameras?
Mr. BEATY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were there people standing up above the TV cameras, if you
recall?
Mr. BEATY. I don't know what they would stand on. There is nothing for
them to stand on unless they had a box or something like that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, how did the congestion in this area that you have
indicated by a half circle which runs from about the position of the
TV camera close to the Main Street side, to about the middle of the
entrance to the garage, how did the congestion in that area compare to
the congestion along the Main Street ramp or across the Main Street
ramp?
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