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. When you say between the two doors, you mean that on
Commerce Street there is an outside door, and a sort of a vestibule,
and then inside doors?
Mr. RIGGS. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Sort of wind-break doors?
Mr. RIGGS. Yes, sir; which actually, the outside door stays open
because they have, like I said, they have the deposit meter where you
can pay your bills and they keep it open.
Mr. HUBERT. So that the outside doors on the Commerce Street side are
always open, but then the inside doors also on the Commerce Street side
are closed on weekends?
Mr. RIGGS. That’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, Servance opened the inside door and then where did you
all go?
Mr. RIGGS. We stood in between.
Mr. HUBERT. In--you never did go out the outside door?
Mr. RIGGS. No, sir; because we had an officer outside the door. He was
standing on the steps there.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, what happened after that?
Mr. RIGGS. After we stood around there a certain length of time, I
don’t know exactly how long, I’d say approximately 45 minutes or an
hour, then the armored car came up, and they started backing down the
ramp, and Harold and myself decided that we would----
Mr. HUBERT. Pardon. Fuqua?
Mr. RIGGS. Fuqua; yes, sir. We decided we would try to go down in the
police locker room and maybe watch it on television. We came from the
first floor----
Mr. HUBERT. Well, you left the Commerce Street entrance--did you close
it? Did you lock it up?
Mr. RIGGS. No, sir; because Servance and the rest of them were still
standing up there.
Mr. HUBERT. So, you left before they did, and you don’t know whether he
locked it or not?
Mr. RIGGS. Then only Harold and myself left. We came in the elevator, I
got the keys, unlocked the back door, and I locked it back. I still had
the keys.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, when you went through the elevator door, did you leave
it open?
Mr. RIGGS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. The elevator door that is on the alleyway side was left
open?
Mr. RIGGS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And you took the key out of the elevator for the back door
on the alleyway, and you opened that back door?
Mr. RIGGS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, you kept the key?
Mr. RIGGS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, did you leave that back door open?
Mr. RIGGS. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, what do you mean?
Mr. RIGGS. I made sure I locked it back, because actually we usually
are supposed to lock the door, keep it locked, and when I unlocked the
door from the inside and in turn, took the key and put it on the other
side and locked it back.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, then what did you do?
Mr. RIGGS. We left from the alleyway and walked to the left as we went
out the back door.
Mr. HUBERT. Towards Main Street?
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