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. Or going to the elevator and into the alleyway?
Mr. McKINZIE. That’s right. One of the two.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, do you know how they got out?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir; I don’t.
Mr. HUBERT. Are you willing to state that they did not get out through
the elevator at all?
Mr. McKINZIE. I can’t figure how they could unless one of them had a
key, and I don’t think one of them had a key, because I had the key
myself and when I turned it off I took it with me.
Mr. HUBERT. Nobody asked you to take them down?
Mr. McKINZIE. No.
Mr. HUBERT. Or to open the back door?
Mr. McKINZIE. No.
Mr. HUBERT. Is it possible that the back doors of the elevator were
open when you had the elevator cut off?
Mr. McKINZIE. I don’t think so. It could have been a button might have
flew open, but I think when I cut it off, when you mash your button,
why, it don’t open until you turn your switch.
Mr. HUBERT. You didn’t leave the back door open?
Mr. McKINZIE. No; I left it closed.
Mr. HUBERT. Sir, if somebody had to open it----
Mr. McKINZIE. It would have been open when I went back to it. It
wouldn’t close.
Mr. HUBERT. It wouldn’t automatically close?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. No way to make it close from the outside?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir; when you’ve got it cut off. When it is on
automatic when you cut it off if you leave your doors open they stay
open. If you close them up they stay closed.
Mr. HUBERT. And you say they were closed?
Mr. McKINZIE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. So, even pushing the button wouldn’t have opened the back
door?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. The key to the back door of the building that goes out to
the alleyway, was it left in the elevator when you left the elevator?
Mr. McKINZIE. I hang the keys on a ring and hang them up on the wall.
Mr. HUBERT. Those keys were there?
Mr. McKINZIE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. So if they had managed to get the elevator door open, they
could have used that key to get the back door leading onto the alley
open?
Mr. McKINZIE. Oh, yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. But, you didn’t see anything like that?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. You didn’t see them go out Main Street?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir. Now, which way they went out of that, I really
do not know, but I do learn--I heard them say, myself, they believed
they would go down to the police department and watch television.
Mr. HUBERT. How would they get to the police department from the main
floor of the municipal building?
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