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. McKINZIE. They would have had, at least, to went out Commerce
Street and went down and gone down into the basement, or either--or
they would have had to went through the screen door, the door between
the two swinging, so, they had to go one of two ways. The only way to
go to the police department from the municipal building into the police
department. After they got in that alley, they had to go right down in
the stairways, as I understand is where they was, they went downstairs,
they had to go out through a gate if they went downstairs, and they
stopped them over in the police department before they even got over to
the televisions. That is where they were stopped at.
Mr. HUBERT. Your thought is that they used the staircase, the fire
stairs?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir; I think they must have used the door between the
two buildings.
Mr. HUBERT. You mean that door that has got two metal doors like an
accordion?
Mr. McKINZIE. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Did they have a key to that?
Mr. McKINZIE. I don’t know whether Riggs had keys or not. He is a
truck-driver. He might have keys of his own. He works daytime and I
work nights. I don’t know too much about it. I don’t know too much
about it, but I know he drives a truck and porter work, and those head
boys, some of them has keys.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you know this man called Jack Ruby?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Never met him before in your life?
Mr. McKINZIE. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Of course, you have seen pictures of him?
Mr. McKINZIE. Yes, sir; that’s all.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he come in there that day?
Mr. McKINZIE. I don’t know. I didn’t see him if he did and I don’t
think he did. I really don’t.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, you are swearing that you didn’t see him come in?
Mr. McKINZIE. That’s right; that’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, since all this happened you must have stopped to think
to yourself, “Well, did that man come in through where I was supposed
to be?”
Mr. McKINZIE. Oh, yes, sir. I have thought of it, but I know he didn’t.
Mr. HUBERT. That is what I want to find out. You have put your mind to
it and you have thought about it a great deal----
Mr. McKINZIE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And you are prepared to tell us under oath now, Louis, that
this man did not come through, so far as you know, you didn’t see him?
Mr. McKINZIE. That’s right. That’s right. He come in there some other
way. He didn’t come through that elevator.
Mr. HUBERT. Have you anything else you want to say, Louis, that might
help the President’s Commission in finding out the truth about this
thing?
Mr. McKINZIE. Well, I don’t--other words about it, I just don’t know
anything I could say.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, we certainly don’t want you to invent anything. On
the other hand, we want you to feel free to say anything that is the
truth.
Mr. McKINZIE. Yes, sir; that’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. Because this is an important thing.
Mr. McKINZIE. Sure. I realize that.
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