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Lights Out."
By Raymond Gallagher 5/2011
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How convenient! Geneva Hine, the only employee on the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) second floor notices electrical power and phones go dead.
"THE LIGHTS ALL WENT OUT and the PHONES BECAME DEAD BECAUSE THE MOTORCADE WAS COMING NEAR"
(Testimony of Geneva L. Hine)
Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 395
Mr. Ball. Were you alone then at this time?
Miss HINE. Yes.
Mr. Ball. Did you stay at your desk?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir: I was alone until THE LIGHTS ALL WENT OUT and the PHONES BECAME DEAD BECAUSE THE MOTORCADE WAS COMING NEAR us and no one was calling so I got up and thought I could see it from the east window in our office.
Mr. Ball. Did you go to the window?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir.
Mr. Ball. Did you look out?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir.
Mr. Ball. What did you see?
Miss HINE. I saw the escort car come first up the middle of Houston Street.
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I turned and went through the back hall and came through the back door.
Mr. Ball. Of your office, the second floor office?
Miss HINE. Yes; and I went straight up to the desk because the telephones were BEGINNING TO WINK outside calls were beginning to come in.
Mr. Ball. Did they come in rapidly?
Miss HINE They did come in rapidly.
Mr. Ball. When you came back in did you see Mrs. Reid?
Miss HINE. No, sir; I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right then.
Mr. Ball. Did you see anybody else go in through there?
Miss HINE. No, sir; after I answered the telephone then there was about four or five people that came in.
Mr. BALL. Was there anybody in that room when you came back in and went to the telephone?
Miss HINE. No, sir; not to my knowledge.
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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 391
(Testimony of Miss Victoria Elizabeth Adams)
"...the power had been cut off on the elevator,..."
Mr. Belin. Did he let you come back in?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. Belin. Then what did you do?
Miss ADAMS. Following that, I pushed the button for the passenger elevator, but the power had been cut off on the elevator, so I took the stairs to the second floor.
Mr. BELIN. You then went all the way back to the northwest corner of the building and took the same set of stairs you had previously taken to come down, or did you take the stairs by the passenger elevator?
Miss ADAMS. By the passenger elevator...
Mr. Belin. Then what did you do?
Miss ADAMS. I went into the elevator which was stopped on the second floor, with two men who were dressed in suit and hats, and I assumed they were plainclothesmen.
Mr. Belin. What did you do then?
Miss ADAMS. I tried to get the elevator to go to the fourth floor, but it wasn't operating, so the gentlemen lifted the elevator gate and we went out and ran up the stairs to the fourth floor.
Mr. BELIN. Now trying to reconstruct your actions insofar as the time sequence, which we haven't done, what is your best estimate of the time between the time the shots were fired and the time you got back to the building? How much time elapsed? If you have any estimate. Maybe you don't have one.
Miss ADAMS. I would estimate not more than 5 minutes elapsed.
Mr. Belin. Is there any particular reason why you make this estimation?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, sir; going down the stairs toward the back, I was running. I ran to the railroad tracks. I moved quickly to the front of the building, paused briefly to talk to someone, listened only to the report of the windows from which the shot supposedly was fired, and returned to the building.
Mr. BELIN. How long do you think it was between the time the shots were fired and the time you left the window to start toward the stairway?
Miss ADAMS. Between 15 and 30 seconds, estimated, approximately.
Mr. BELIN. How long do you think it was, or do you think it took you to get from the window to the top of the fourth floor stairs?
Miss ADAMS. I don't think I can answer that question accurately, because the time approximation, without a stopwatch, would be difficult.
Mr. BELIN. How long do you think it took you. to get from the window to the bottom of the stairs on the first floor?
Miss ADAMS. I would say no longer than a minute at the most.
Mr. BELIN. So you think that from the time you left the window on the fourth floor until the time you got to the stairs at the bottom of the first floor, was approximately 1 minute?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, approximately.
Mr. Belin. As I understand your testimony previously, you saw neither Roy Truly nor any motorcycle police officer at any time?
Miss ADAMS. That's correct.
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While outside -- And I said, "I want to find out." I think the President is shot. There was a motorcycle that was parked on the corner of Houston and Elm directly in front of the east end of the building, and I pause -- there to listen to the report on the police radio, and they said that shots had been fired which apparently came either from the second floor or the fourth floor window, and so I panicked, as I was at the only open window on the fourth floor.
Baker's motorcycle...?
William Weston writes, "The electrical power for the whole building and even the telephone stopped working about five minutes prior to the assassination.303 How two such entirely different systems as the electricity and the phones could go out simultaneously is beyond explanation, unless one can assume that the interruption was deliberate."304 Although this claim is currently in dispute, it cannot be denied that the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy would have involved intimate knowledge of the TSBD building. Truly and Shelly were possibly employed to some extent by the building's landlord, David Harold Byrd.
303. Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. 6, pp. 391, 395, 396, cited in Weston, p. 11. Note: It was pointed out in the March 1993 Third Decade (pp. 22-23) that the testimony cited by Weston referring to "lights all went out and phones became dead" has two different interpretations. While that is true, there is ample evidence that commission attorneys altered testimony and chose language very carefully. Weston believes "that the Warren Commission was trying to avoid the subject." In a cover-up, this matter would be a prime target for obfuscation.
304. Weston, p. 11.
By Raymond Gallagher 5/2011
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How convenient! Geneva Hine, the only employee on the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) second floor notices electrical power and phones go dead.
"THE LIGHTS ALL WENT OUT and the PHONES BECAME DEAD BECAUSE THE MOTORCADE WAS COMING NEAR"
(Testimony of Geneva L. Hine)
Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 395
Mr. Ball. Were you alone then at this time?
Miss HINE. Yes.
Mr. Ball. Did you stay at your desk?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir: I was alone until THE LIGHTS ALL WENT OUT and the PHONES BECAME DEAD BECAUSE THE MOTORCADE WAS COMING NEAR us and no one was calling so I got up and thought I could see it from the east window in our office.
Mr. Ball. Did you go to the window?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir.
Mr. Ball. Did you look out?
Miss HINE. Yes, sir.
Mr. Ball. What did you see?
Miss HINE. I saw the escort car come first up the middle of Houston Street.
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I turned and went through the back hall and came through the back door.
Mr. Ball. Of your office, the second floor office?
Miss HINE. Yes; and I went straight up to the desk because the telephones were BEGINNING TO WINK outside calls were beginning to come in.
Mr. Ball. Did they come in rapidly?
Miss HINE They did come in rapidly.
Mr. Ball. When you came back in did you see Mrs. Reid?
Miss HINE. No, sir; I don't believe there was a soul in the office when I came back in right then.
Mr. Ball. Did you see anybody else go in through there?
Miss HINE. No, sir; after I answered the telephone then there was about four or five people that came in.
Mr. BALL. Was there anybody in that room when you came back in and went to the telephone?
Miss HINE. No, sir; not to my knowledge.
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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 391
(Testimony of Miss Victoria Elizabeth Adams)
"...the power had been cut off on the elevator,..."
Mr. Belin. Did he let you come back in?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. Belin. Then what did you do?
Miss ADAMS. Following that, I pushed the button for the passenger elevator, but the power had been cut off on the elevator, so I took the stairs to the second floor.
Mr. BELIN. You then went all the way back to the northwest corner of the building and took the same set of stairs you had previously taken to come down, or did you take the stairs by the passenger elevator?
Miss ADAMS. By the passenger elevator...
Mr. Belin. Then what did you do?
Miss ADAMS. I went into the elevator which was stopped on the second floor, with two men who were dressed in suit and hats, and I assumed they were plainclothesmen.
Mr. Belin. What did you do then?
Miss ADAMS. I tried to get the elevator to go to the fourth floor, but it wasn't operating, so the gentlemen lifted the elevator gate and we went out and ran up the stairs to the fourth floor.
Mr. BELIN. Now trying to reconstruct your actions insofar as the time sequence, which we haven't done, what is your best estimate of the time between the time the shots were fired and the time you got back to the building? How much time elapsed? If you have any estimate. Maybe you don't have one.
Miss ADAMS. I would estimate not more than 5 minutes elapsed.
Mr. Belin. Is there any particular reason why you make this estimation?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, sir; going down the stairs toward the back, I was running. I ran to the railroad tracks. I moved quickly to the front of the building, paused briefly to talk to someone, listened only to the report of the windows from which the shot supposedly was fired, and returned to the building.
Mr. BELIN. How long do you think it was between the time the shots were fired and the time you left the window to start toward the stairway?
Miss ADAMS. Between 15 and 30 seconds, estimated, approximately.
Mr. BELIN. How long do you think it was, or do you think it took you to get from the window to the top of the fourth floor stairs?
Miss ADAMS. I don't think I can answer that question accurately, because the time approximation, without a stopwatch, would be difficult.
Mr. BELIN. How long do you think it took you. to get from the window to the bottom of the stairs on the first floor?
Miss ADAMS. I would say no longer than a minute at the most.
Mr. BELIN. So you think that from the time you left the window on the fourth floor until the time you got to the stairs at the bottom of the first floor, was approximately 1 minute?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, approximately.
Mr. Belin. As I understand your testimony previously, you saw neither Roy Truly nor any motorcycle police officer at any time?
Miss ADAMS. That's correct.
----------
While outside -- And I said, "I want to find out." I think the President is shot. There was a motorcycle that was parked on the corner of Houston and Elm directly in front of the east end of the building, and I pause -- there to listen to the report on the police radio, and they said that shots had been fired which apparently came either from the second floor or the fourth floor window, and so I panicked, as I was at the only open window on the fourth floor.
Baker's motorcycle...?
William Weston writes, "The electrical power for the whole building and even the telephone stopped working about five minutes prior to the assassination.303 How two such entirely different systems as the electricity and the phones could go out simultaneously is beyond explanation, unless one can assume that the interruption was deliberate."304 Although this claim is currently in dispute, it cannot be denied that the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy would have involved intimate knowledge of the TSBD building. Truly and Shelly were possibly employed to some extent by the building's landlord, David Harold Byrd.
303. Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. 6, pp. 391, 395, 396, cited in Weston, p. 11. Note: It was pointed out in the March 1993 Third Decade (pp. 22-23) that the testimony cited by Weston referring to "lights all went out and phones became dead" has two different interpretations. While that is true, there is ample evidence that commission attorneys altered testimony and chose language very carefully. Weston believes "that the Warren Commission was trying to avoid the subject." In a cover-up, this matter would be a prime target for obfuscation.
304. Weston, p. 11.