Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. BEERS. No, sir; I did not. As I arrived, there was quite a crowd
of people gathered around the building, and so some officers brought a
disheveled looking man from the building, and I thought this probably
was the person, so I ran over and made a picture, and then went over
to the building. This time the building was sealed off and no one was
allowed to enter.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How long did you remain there at the School Book
Depository?
Mr. BEERS. I remained at the School Book Depository for 2 or 3 minutes,
and I heard the report that an officer had been shot in Oak Cliff. I
ran back to my car, which was parked on Main Street directly across the
street from the county jail building, and notified our office by 2-way
radio that there was a report of a shooting, that a police officer had
been involved, and asked them if they had any information, or if this
would probably be linked to the President’s assassination, and they had
no information.
I checked the police dispatcher, and the dispatcher didn’t have
enough information to tell us, so I was told to remain at the Texas
School Book Depository, which I did until sometime quite late in the
afternoon, at the time the police had finished their investigation
there in the building, and then admitted the press to the building, and
we were taken to the sixth floor and allowed to photograph the area
where the rifle was found, and shown and allowed to photograph the area
in and around the window and make pictures from the window where the
assassination was supposedly--where the assassin was supposed to have
fired shots from.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you give us an estimate of what time that would have
been when you were up there taking the pictures on the sixth floor?
Mr. BEERS. This would be strictly a guess, an estimate. It would be
sometime around the vicinity of 4 o’clock. It was quite late in the
afternoon. Probably later.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now in your pictures that you took, were any of the
objects that were allegedly found up there on the sixth floor
photographed, such as the position of the rifle and the placement of
the boxes and other materials in the window from which the assassin is
believed to have shot?
Mr. BEERS. Yes. Prior to admitting us to the building, I made pictures
of a sack, very long narrow sack type of affair that was brought down
from there, and a pop bottle and some pieces of chicken, and I also
made a picture of the rifle which I believe it was Lieutenant Carl
Day from the Dallas police crime lab brought that. And upon going in
the building, I photographed the area where the rifle was found. I
photographed the area around the window from which the assassin was
supposedly seated, and I moved into that area and made a picture from
the window, supposedly the window from which the bullets were fired,
that showed a little corner of the boxes which possibly the rifle
rested on. It shows the street down below where the automobile was
traveling when the President was killed.
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