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. HUBERT. Also a sort of a corridor that goes into the jail office,
isn’t that correct?
Mr. FUQUA. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Your duties, normally, are just to assist in parking of
cars down there?
Mr. FUQUA. Right, and make sure that the right people--in other words,
we have people that come down each day to maybe want to park and go get
a prisoner out of jail or pay their water bill. We don’t permit that.
Mr. HUBERT. In other words, that parking area is used for employees of
the city and the municipal building, as well as for police automobiles?
Mr. FUQUA. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. Just not a public parking lot?
Mr. FUQUA. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. And that is your job, to keep them from parking down there?
Mr. FUQUA. Yes; and to assist, too.
Mr. HUBERT. And to assist getting cars out when people come for them?
Mr. FUQUA. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, on the morning of November 24, do you recall being
put out of the basement area, I guess you might call it, along with
Alfreadia Riggs and others?
Mr. FUQUA. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Tell us what happened.
Mr. FUQUA. You said tell you what happened?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes; tell us what happened.
Mr. FUQUA. All right, we were standing along and watching on, and then
we went back and sit down over there, you know, at the telephone down
where the elevator goes up into the municipal building.
Mr. HUBERT. That is the service elevator?
Mr. FUQUA. Right, and captain and sergeant came over and said--well,
said, “I hate to run you off your job”--said, “--but we’d rather for
nobody but news reporters and police officers be down here.” At that
time they were making a search through the basement there.
Mr. HUBERT. What time was that about?
Mr. FUQUA. About 9:30, somewhere about like that.
Mr. HUBERT. Then what happened next?
Mr. FUQUA. We all loaded on the elevator and went up to the first floor.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you go up with Mr. Pierce or did you come up a little
later?
Mr. FUQUA. Seemed to me that we all went up together, or maybe I went
up--I don’t know. I know that he made a trip down back. It might have
been that I didn’t go up with Mr. Pierce. I don’t----
Mr. HUBERT. And came up a little later?
Mr. FUQUA. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. Was it much later?
Mr. FUQUA. Not too much later, because the time the captain told me he
had rather for us to go.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, you went up to the first floor of the municipal
building then?
Mr. FUQUA. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. And that would have been about 9:30, or a quarter of 10:00?
Mr. FUQUA. About 9:30, something like that.
Mr. HUBERT. What happened after that?
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