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. Let's go back into the basement where you left off at the
end of the last sequence of questions. What time, roughly, would it
have been when you had completed the duty of informing the police who
were at the top of the Commerce Street entrance, and after you had
informed Captain Talbert, and after you had gotten these three men----
Captain JONES. To the jail office there?
Mr. HUBERT. What time was it, about?
Captain JONES. Well, it would take a minimum, I would say, of 5
minutes, to come up that. It would vary a little, and possibly more,
depending on how fast the elevators came up and so forth.
Mr. HUBERT. What did you do next then?
Captain JONES. Next thing I did--it was brought to my attention--we
don't have a chart here so I will have----
Mr. HUBERT. Here; I am going to mark it, "Dallas, Texas, March 24,
1963. Exhibit 5057, deposition of Capt. O. A. Jones." I am signing my
name below it and I would like you to sign your name, here.
Captain JONES. All right, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And then will you use the exhibit as you see fit. Let me
say to you that if you do refer to the exhibit please indicate in words
where it is rather than pointing to it because it will not make sense
later on.
Captain JONES. All right.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, you were saying about the basement----
Captain JONES. When I got off the elevator, came out and left the
elevator--all right, now, someone brought it to my attention that
photographers and news media were in this part of the jail.
Mr. HUBERT. In the jail?
Captain JONES. Jail office, outside.
Mr. HUBERT. Outside of the desks?
Captain JONES. Outside the booking area, outside of the desk part of
the jail office, and newsmen all out in here [indicating].
Mr. HUBERT. When you say "here," you are pointing to the jail area?
Captain JONES. The corridor they have from the driveway from the
basement jail office.
Mr. HUBERT. On the east side of the swinging doors?
Captain JONES. On the east side of the swinging doors; yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, what did you do?
Captain JONES. I did not know the instructions given to the other
officers down there prior to that. Nothing. So, immediately after
seeing them--I saw Chief Batchelor and Chief Stevenson come out the
swinging doors into the area, and Batchelor, being the highest ranking
officer present, I pointed these people out to him, and----
Mr. HUBERT. That is to say, in the jail office?
Captain JONES. In the jail office--were they supposed to be in there,
and wouldn't it be better, if we could get those people out of the jail
office, that it would be easier to watch the prisoner, and so, I don't
know the exact words, I used, and they walked around and looked around,
and then agreed that it would be. So, he and I, and at least one other
officer, and I don't know who he was, but at least one more removed
everyone out of the outer part of the jail office to just outside the
swinging doors coming from the basement of the city hall going east.
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