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. FUQUA. We all were watching the action that was going on out on
Commerce Street side and there was a lot of people standing out on the
sidewalk with a--those officers were trying to keep them on the far
side of the street, on the south side of the street rather than the
north side, and when anybody would pass along there to try to maybe
enter the building, they would ask them for some type--would appear to
me that they would ask--were asking for some type of credentials or
something.
Mr. HUBERT. How long did you stay there watching them?
Mr. FUQUA. I guess must have been stayed there--seemed like to me 30
minutes or more stayed there watching them.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you leave?
Mr. FUQUA. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Where did you go?
Mr. FUQUA. Riggs and I left together and said, “Let’s see if we can’t
go down and watch it on television,” see, so, we went out to the
alleyway onto Main Street and walked back, came up the street and went
around there by the ramp there, and came on around and came in from the
Harwood side, and went down through the basement to the locker room to
watch it on television. There was one fellow down there, he said that
he didn’t think it would be on television, probably reruns would be on
television, so, we came back up, and just about the time we came back
up into the basement, that is--I guess that is when we heard the shot
and the scrambling. We went on, and we went into the records building,
which is right down from the jail office there.
Mr. HUBERT. When you came down in the basement, you don’t mean you came
into the ramps, or the parking area?
Mr. FUQUA. No.
Mr. HUBERT. You were there by the records room then?
Mr. FUQUA. Yes; on around right from the Harwood side.
Mr. HUBERT. How did you get out of the municipal building, sir?
Mr. FUQUA. You mean after the----
Mr. HUBERT. No; when you and Riggs left. First of all, what time was
it, about, when you left the municipal building to go out and around----
Mr. FUQUA. Seemed to me that it must have been 10 or after.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you think it was as late as 11?
Mr. FUQUA. No; I don’t think it was that late.
Mr. HUBERT. Let me put it another way. When you left Servance and
Pierce and the others, at the Commerce Street entrance and you and
Riggs decided to go and watch on television and you left for the
municipal building, how long was it before the shooting.
Mr. FUQUA. Oh, it wasn’t over 10 or 15 minutes at the most. I doubt if
it was that long, because we walked slowly along the street there and
where these two officers were on the Main Street side, and just walked
on around slowly, around the Harwood side, and looked down the ramp,
and by the time we found out it wasn’t--that it wasn’t going to be on
television and came back----
Mr. HUBERT. And that is about the time the shot was fired?
Mr. FUQUA. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. How long were you in the locker room?
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