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. SERVANCE. And assume that the room we are in is the staircase room.
All right, anywhere you are on the first floor, or any of those floors
you can always go into those staircases, fire escapes, none of those
are not locked.
Mr. HUBERT. Except the basement?
Mr. SERVANCE. Except the basement where you come out, that’s right.
None of them are not locked, I am sorry, I got confused there.
Mr. HUBERT. I think that is right. You can go from the corridor into
the staircase on the first floor, because those doors do not lock?
Mr. SERVANCE. That’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, once you get into the staircase on the first floor you
can go down into the basement and go through the basement door into
the basement, but you couldn’t come through the door from the basement
because it is locked?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir; on the weekends; yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. I think that is straight now. You said there was another
fire-escape door?
Mr. SERVANCE. One more.
Mr. HUBERT. Where is that?
Mr. SERVANCE. That is the one where we were standing there, when--one
comes out of the building through the entrance right there.
Mr. HUBERT. Leads----
Mr. SERVANCE. On the Commerce side.
Mr. HUBERT. Leads to the fire-escape stairway?
Mr. SERVANCE. Well, it is a fire-escape stairway.
Mr. HUBERT. And it operates exactly on--like the other one we are
talking about?
Mr. SERVANCE. And it ends there on the first floor.
Mr. HUBERT. Doesn’t go down into the basement?
Mr. SERVANCE. Doesn’t go down into the basement.
Mr. HUBERT. I see. So, that if you were on the first floor of the
municipal building that staircase that we are talking about on the
Commerce Street side does not lead you to the basement?
Mr. SERVANCE. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. The one we are talking about before is on the Main Street
side of the elevator?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir; you see, you got to--you go in front of the
hall, and you have got a cross corridor there.
Mr. HUBERT. Two corridors that cross each other?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir; and on each corridor there is a door comes
from--winds around and so it comes down.
Mr. HUBERT. But, only one of them goes to the basement?
Mr. SERVANCE. Only one goes to the basement.
Mr. HUBERT. The only one that goes to the basement is the one we are
talking about?
Mr. SERVANCE. That’s right, only one, that’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. The other fire escape stops at the first floor?
Mr. SERVANCE. Stops at the main floor and do not go down into the
basement.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, all right, I think that it is clear. Now, has there
been any conferences between you, Mr. Servance, and any member of the
President’s Commission prior to this deposition?
Mr. SERVANCE. No, sir; nobody.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you consider that between this document number 5131
which you identified and your deposition that we have the whole story
about everything you now know about this matter?
Mr. SERVANCE. That’s right, best of my knowledge.
Mr. HUBERT. All right. Thank you.
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