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. PIERCE. That would be difficult to say just exactly how much prior,
but it was--to give an actual time on it, of course, when we went to
the main floor, the first floor on the elevator prior to the shooting,
in this corridor, that is a four-way corridor there. There is an
information desk sits right in the intersection of the two corridors,
and the several elevators is in the corridor that leads--that is the
reason I say it takes a little describing because it was facing that
corridor and that gate when you get off the elevator, and that was
9:30, probably 9:30.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, now, what other way is it possible to go from
the first floor of the municipal building into the police building?
Mr. PIERCE. From the first floor to the police building, the only
way from the first floor that you can get into the police and courts
building is to leave the municipal building first floor, that is the
only way you can get to it.
Mr. HUBERT. And go where?
Mr. PIERCE. And go either outside on the--only other way you can get
to it is to go outside on either Main Street or Commerce Street and go
down to the police and courts building and use one of their entrances,
or take the service elevator down to the basement, which you have the
model here, and walk across that garage area and the ramp area to the
basement. Two ways, but no other way you can get there from the first
floor.
Mr. HUBERT. About--what about the fire escape stairs?
Mr. PIERCE. No fire escape.
Mr. HUBERT. Isn’t there a fire case where----
Mr. PIERCE. The enter--staircase, you still can’t get there. It is
impossible to get there, because that staircase is always locked from
the municipal building. That stairway is inside the building proper. It
is not an outside stairway like this.
Mr. HUBERT. Yes; I understand.
Mr. PIERCE. And the entrance to it is always locked.
Mr. HUBERT. There are two staircases that open onto the main floor of
the municipal building, isn’t that correct, or three?
Mr. PIERCE. One on Commerce Street. One back in the building, and
then another one up on Main Street which goes up into a second floor,
but the second floor they are faced also with the same proposition
on weekends, which you are speaking of here. That entire building is
separated.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, now, as to both of those staircases, is it not a fact
that they do not go down into the basement at all. Only one goes down
to the basement?
Mr. PIERCE. Only one goes down to the basement?
Mr. HUBERT. And that one is a staircase just off the corridor on the
Main Street side?
Mr. PIERCE. Right. That goes down.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, they have doors that--two doors, sort of swinging
doors, are they not?
Mr. PIERCE. Not to the first floor; no, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Can’t you at all times use those doors to get into the
staircase and go either up or down?
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