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. From my own knowledge; no, sir. I don’t know. Now, there
was a small interval of time elapsed when we first left the basement
area here on the elevator and came up to the first floor. McKinzie
was the operator of the elevator, which has a buzzer system on it for
calling, and as such, is required to answer calls to whatever floor
the personnel is calling for elevator service there, because that
is the only elevator in operation, and he did answer a call or two
probably from the phone operators up on five, like I say, when we left
the basement area and went up to one, he was there, too, and in that
small interval of time, I would say about 10 minutes, he came back
and reparked the elevator there on one and said that--told me that a
policeman had told him not to answer any more calls on that elevator.
To even remove the elevator completely from the basement area, and
don’t answer any more calls until notified later. And that--and that
elevator stayed there then at that point there is one of the things
that entered my mind a while ago when you were speaking of--about the
elevator being shut off, and the operator can turn a switch and turn
it out of service, and he brought up the elevator and told me, and
Servance was there, at the time, and Servance is his immediate boss,
and told Servance that he had been instructed not to answer any more
calls on that elevator.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, I asked you whether or not you know how Riggs and
Fuqua got out of the building? What way they used to get out of the
building?
Mr. PIERCE. Now, they left us where we were there in that small
interval of time and it is possible that they went back down and walked
across to the stairway that goes to the police locker room, is--that is
the only way they could get to it, if they took that route, actually,
the question was, “Do I know how?”, and I’m not certain, because I did
not follow them or go with them.
The easiest way, across the other stairway and went down to the police
locker room or that stairway from Commerce Street down to the porters’
quarters, and the subbasement where our equipment is, from that
stairway there is a door that is locked there, also. They would have
to have a key. If they got in the police locker room there is a fire
escape from the locker room out to the outside in case they ever have
to leave, but you cannot go into it without a key.
If they used that route, they had to use a key, which I don’t know if
anybody has a key or not.
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