Well!
1.
Ms Geneva Hine, early statement: She describes an officer ALONE coming up into the second-floor office area "almost immediately" after seeing pandemonium break loose out on the street.
Suggestion: This officer was in fact Officer Marrion L. Baker. Mr Truly had run in after him and merely shown him where the FRONT stairs were. No heroic quick dash a deux up the buildingWhat other DPD candidates are there? Which other officer ran into the building very quickly after the shooting? None that I know of...........
Officer Baker MAY have been the officer who (
on his own) was a little later seen by Mr Bonnie Ray Williams coming on to the fifth floor BY REAR ELEVATOR and checking out the floor:
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2.
From the testimony of Inspector J. Herbert Sawyer:Mr. BELIN. Now you took an elevator up, is that correct?
Mr. SAWYER. That's right.
Mr. BELIN. The route that you took to the elevator, you went to the front door?
Mr. SAWYER. Right.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mr. SAWYER. We got into the elevator. We run into this man.
Mr. BELIN. Well, when you say you got into the elevator, where was the elevator as you walked in the front door?Who was the man Mr Sawyer ran into? Mr Belin doesn't want to know! But we know he was apparently a Depository man:
Mr. SAWYER. And I went with a couple of officers and a man who I believed worked in the building. The elevator was just to the right of the main entrance, and we went to the top floor, which was pointed out to me by this other man as being the floor that we were talking about. We had talked about the fifth floor. And we went back to the storage area and looked around and didn't see anything.Suggestion: This man was none other than Mr Roy Truly. He did NOT accompany Officer Baker up the building, but stayed downstairs. (Or, if an inference is to be made from Mr Eddie Piper's testimony, he went up only one story with him and then came back down to first floor.) Then, some 4-5 mins post-shooting, he accompanied Inspector Sawyer up to the FOURTH floor in the passenger elevator*****
3.
From the Stroud Letter:“Miss Garner, Miss Adams’ supervisor, stated this morning that after Miss Adams went downstairs she (Miss Garner) saw Mr. Truly and the policeman come up.”Suggestion: Miss Garner saw Mr Truly AND THE UNIFORMED INSP. SAWYER arrive on the fourth floor some 5 mins post-shootingWhen Mr Barry Ernest interviews the elderly Ms Garner, she does NOT confirm seeing Mr Truly and an officer come up the REAR STAIRS. Her abiding memory of the chaotic aftermath is this:
“It was total confusion,” she said. “The Dallas Police, FBI, Secret Service were coming up the stairs,
in the elevators, in all the offices."
Now cf what Insp. Sawyer says about what he did when he got on to the fourth floor:
Mr. BELIN. Now when you got off, you say you went into the back there into a warehouse area?
Mr. SAWYER. Storage area; what appeared to be a storage area.Exactly where we would expect Ms Garner to be at this time.............
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4.
From the testimony of Mr Jack Dougherty:
Mr. BALL - Did you hear Mr. Truly yell anything up the elevator shaft?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - I didn't hear anybody yell.
Mr. BALL - Or, did you see Mr. Truly?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Well, when the FBI men---I imagine it was who it was---he showed me his credentials, but he asked me who the manager was, and I told him, "Mr. Truly." He told me to go find him. Well, I didn't know where he was so I started from the first floor and Just started looking for him, and .by the time I got to the sixth floor, they had found a gum and shells.
Mr. BALL - When you went up to the sixth floor, it was after they found the shotgun and shells?
Mr. DOUGHERTY - Yes, sir; and I found out later he was on the fourth floor, which I didn't find.But what timeframe is Mr Dougherty talking about here when he says Mr Truly had been on the fourth floor? As usual in his testimony, his sense of time is all over the place. Thankfully however he will make it perfectly clear in his 1971 interview with Mr Gill Toff:
Q: I know cause he, he kinda helped out somewhat, according to them, to their statement. Did you happen to eh, you know you said you came back downstairs and someone said go and see Mr Truly or go find Mr Truly, was he in the office at the time?
JD: No, he was upstairs on another floor.= Mr Truly was upstairs on another floor AT THE TIME someone said go and find Mr Truly
Q: So when you came downstairs the first floor Mr Truly was in his office right?
JD: Yes, for a while.
Q: For a while, but then, you stayed downstairs for a while and then some FBI man came in you say and told you to go find him for him?
JD: Yes, uh huh.The implications of what Mr Dougherty has just said are explosive, for they offer confirmation that
a) when Mr Dougherty came downstairs just after the shooting, Mr Truly was ON THE FIRST FLOOR
b) when, a little later, some man flashing credentials asked Mr Dougherty to find Mr Truly, Mr Truly was NO LONGER on the first floor but was upstairs on another floor------------the FOURTH floor.
Development of earlier suggestion: The reason Mr Truly was at this later time on the fourth floor was that he had gone up there with Inspector Sawyer.