The Texas School Book Depository
“The evidence does cast enormous suspicion on Oswald. . . . leaves him looking guilty of something. The evidence does not, on the other hand, put him behind a gun in the sixth-floor window.” Anthony Summers
At 11:45 am, Oswald’s co-workers on the sixth floor took the elevator down for lunch and to see the motorcade, leaving Lee without an elevator. His last words to them are: “Guys how about an elevator? Send one of them back up.”
At 11:45-11:50 am, Book Depository foreman Bill Shelley sees Oswald near a phone on the first floor.
At 11:50 am Charles Givens sees Oswald reading a newspaper in the first floor lunch room.
At 12:00 noon, Bonnie Ray Williams goes up to the sixth floor to eat his lunch, he stays there until 12:15 pm. He sees no one else while he is there. The remains of his lunch – chicken bones and lunch bag – are found after the assassination.
Between 12:00 and 12:15 pm, Junior Jarman and Harold Norman walk thru the second floor lunch room, and remember that there was “someone else in there”. During interrogation, in police custody, Oswald remembers two Negro employees walking thru the lunch room while he is there.
At 12:15 m, Arnold Rowland, standing outside across from the School Book Depository, sees two men in the sixth floor windows, one holding a rifle across his chest. Rowland points them out to his wife.
At 12:35 pm, on November 22, 1963, President Kennedy is assassinated. His motorcade is five minutes late.
“I asked him what part of the building he was in at the time the President was shot, and he said he was having lunch about that time on the second floor”.
At 12:37 pm, Marion Baker, a motorcycle policeman riding just behind the President’s car, thinks the shots came from the roof of School Book Depository. He races over and into the front door of the building, less than one and a half minutes after the shots are fired. He tries to use the elevators, but they are both stopped on the fifth floor. he races up the stairs. On the second floor, he encounters a man with a coke walking away from him. He calls him to stop. Mr. Truly, the building supervisor, catches up just then, he has been racing ahead of Baker to the top floors. “That’s Lee Harvey Oswald, he works here”. Oswald is calm, no sweat on his brow, not short of breath.
At 12:40 pm, right away after watching the motorcade, and the shooting, Victoria Adams rushes down the back stairway of the Texas Book Depository, “to see what was happening”. She has been working that day on the fourth floor of the School Book Depository. She does not see or hear anyone on those stairs, the stairs a sixth floor gunman would have had to use to escape.
Just at the time of the assassination shootings, Photojournalist James Altgen takes a photograph of the motorcade, with the front door of the School Book Depository, in view, behind the oncoming motorcade. There is a small man in the doorway, shirt half open, leaning to look out.
Is… that …man . . . Lee Harvey Oswald?
