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. I believe that night when Mr. Oswald was apprehended, we had
a photographer dispatched to the police station to make photographs up
there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you know who?
Mr. BEERS. Mr. Bill Wentfre.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Are you and Mr. Wentfre the only news photographers?
Mr. BEERS. No, sir; we have approximately 10 news photographers at the
Dallas News.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I take it that all of the photographs that were taken by
all 10 of you photographers that day which had anything to with the
assassination would either be in the file that is in your managing
editor’s office, or else the negatives to the photographs would be
there?
Mr. BEERS. Yes, sir; to the best of my knowledge, we attempted to
collect all of those negatives and control them.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you have any photographer who was assigned to the
Dallas Police Department on a regular basis during those 3 days, the
22d, 23d, and 24th of November?
Mr. BEERS. No, sir; we have a photographer assigned there most of the
time, but it was not any one single photographer.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you work on Saturday?
Mr. BEERS. Yes, sir.
Mr. GRIFFIN. The 23d?
Mr. BEERS. Yes, sir.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you recall where you were working that day?
Mr. BEERS. Yes, sir; I worked hours 10 to 7 on Saturday, and I received
an assignment to go to the city hall, third floor of the city hall
near Captain Fritz’ office, homicide bureau, and to stand by there to
photograph whatever might take place or whoever might be brought in or
maybe any pictures of Mr. Oswald as he was going up and down the hall.
I arrived there roughly at 10:30 and remained there until roughly 1
o’clock, 1 p.m.
Mr. GRIFFIN. In the afternoon?
Mr. BEERS. Yes, sir.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, during the period that you were there, did you see
Jack Ruby?
Mr. BEERS. No, sir; I didn’t.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you have occasion to return to the police station that
day, Saturday?
Mr. BEERS. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Where did you spend the remainder of Saturday?
Mr. BEERS. I think, I can’t remember exactly where I spent the
remainder of Saturday, but I think just on general assignments out of
the paper there. On Saturday afternoon it is usually rather quiet, and
I possibly, I may have had one or more assignments, but I don’t think
so.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, before you left work on Saturday, did you have any
instructions as to what you were to do the next day, Sunday?
Mr. BEERS. No; I did not. It was approximately midnight anyway when I
left work Saturday night. I had no instructions. And at midnight, I
was called to the telephone and told to report to the basement of the
city hall Sunday morning at 10 a.m., to photograph the transfer of Lee
Harvey Oswald from the city jail to the Dallas County Jail.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What time did you actually arrive there?
Mr. BEERS. I arrived at the city hall just about 9 o’clock.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Where did you go when you came in?
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