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
There was some people moving back over here in this area just a little
bit, and then from approximately right in front of myself to up this
ramp, towards the Commerce Street exit was roughly the position that
the, this was the position people were asked to get into, that they
assumed that, roughly.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, do you have any recollection if the people were more
densely stationed along the Main Street ramp than along the area in
front of the entrance to the garage, or vice versa, or were they more
densely stationed in front of the garage than elsewhere?
Mr. BEERS. They were probably a little more concentrated right across
the ramp.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Main Street ramp?
Mr. BEERS. Not here. They were fairly well strung out this way
[pointing]. I couldn’t see too far up this ramp here without leaning
out and around and looking up this post, but from my observation, they
were fairly well strung out up toward the Commerce Street exit there
for a number of feet or yards.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you recall how many persons deep the people were that
were strung across the Main Street ramp?
Mr. BEERS. I am sure that would vary from two to maybe five.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, could there have been as few as 15 people strung
across the Main Street ramp?
Mr. BEERS. There was probably more--actually, they came around this
corner just a little bit and almost up to this door.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You are pointing towards the entrance of the jail office?
Mr. BEERS. The entrance to the jail office; yes. There were actually
a few at the corner there, and strung out across there, and I didn’t
particularly look over in that area because I was concentrating most
of my attention towards the jail office door, because we didn’t know
exactly what time they would be coming out, and we didn’t know what, if
any, advance warning we would have, so I didn’t dare look around too
much. I had already seen everybody I wanted to see, I think.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you ever have occasion to look up the Main Street ramp?
Mr. BEERS. I did look up there earlier.
Mr. GRIFFIN. From where you were in the basement, was it possible to
see anybody up at the top of the Main Street ramp?
Mr. BEERS. There was a policeman standing up at the top of the ramp up
there. Looked like he was out on the sidewalk.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was the visibility such that his features were
distinguishable?
Mr. BEERS. No; it was a silhouette.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you tell us what kind of advance warning you had that
Oswald was coming down?
Mr. BEERS. I believe there were some of the news media in this hallway
which I pointed out, that goes from the elevator to the Harwood Street
side of the city hall, and the hallway goes past the jail office and
goes into the police parking area.
I believe there were some members of the news media in the hall in
front of the window of the jail office, and someone, I think, shouted,
“Oh, here he comes.”
Then there was just a lot of noise and the door opened and he came in.
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