Mr. Griffin.

He came down in the elevator?

Mr. Beaty.

Yes; Wiggins wasn't.

Mr. Griffin.

Wiggins wasn't in the elevator. Now, when these men got off the elevator, what did they do? Where did they go?

Mr. Beaty.

Walked straight out there in front of the elevator to the windows by---are you familiar with that place down there?

Mr. Griffin.

Yes; I am.

Mr. Beaty.

What I call it, where you go through that.

Mr. Griffin.

Might as well call it the window in front of the Jail office, if that is where it was.

Mr. Beaty.

That's right.

Mr. Griffin.

I am going to sketch a diagram of the basement. Did they go through the swinging doors ?

Mr. Beaty.

We waited right about here.

Mr. Griffin.

You are indicating Just about at the first window of the jail office as you come from the elevator?

Mr. Beaty.

That's right.

Mr. Griffin.

The elevator we are talking about is the general elevator that services all floors and is available to anybody that comes into the building?

Mr. Beaty.

We are not talking about the jail elevator?

Mr. Griffin.

That's right.

Mr. Beaty.

That's right.

Mr. Griffin.

Now, when you all congregated outside that window, what took place ?

Mr. Beaty.

Within 5 or 10 minutes, Captain Jones came through and spoke to me, and we walked through the small hall by the Jail office window into the double doors and he instructed us to stand on either side of that hallway, which would be just outside the double doors as you enter into the basement parking area.

Mr. Griffin.

Now, Mr. Beaty, I am going to hand you my pen. I am going to ask you if you will mark on this diagram where was your understanding that people were to place themselves.

Mr. Beaty.

Where they were assigned?

Mr. Griffin.

Yes; what assignments did Jones make at that point?

Mr. Beaty.

He said, "Divide yourself up about half and half. Half on this side and half on this side."

Mr. Griffin.

Now, you have drawn a line on either side, straight line on either side of the hallway that leads out between the swinging doors and the Main Street and Commerce Street ramp.

Mr. Beaty.

That's right.

Mr. Griffin.

Did he tell officers to stand any place except along those two walls where you have drawn the line ?

Mr. Beaty.

No, sir. He instructed us to, when they brought Oswald out of the smaller swinging door in the outside hall, to make a path for him and be sure that nobody got to him or slowed him down. In other words, indicating that--I don't remember whether he said to get to him or not, He just said keep the people back so we can get him through, something like that.

Mr. Griffin.

Let me ask you this: What was your understanding that you people were to do, if anything, when Oswald got abreast of you ?

Mr. Beaty.

To keep the people back. Of course, over here where I was, there was nobody behind me.

Mr. Griffin.

Would you place on the chart where it was you were stationed? Put an "X" there.

Mr. Beaty.

[Complies.]

Mr. Griffin.

Let me ask you again. As Oswald moved out of the jail office and approached the car that he was to get in, did you have any understanding as to any action that you were supposed to take?

Mr. Beaty.

Like I said before, of course, there was nobody at that time, we thought, but the press and police officers down there, and at that time we were, television cameras were set up across the ramp behind a railing about 4 foot tall.

Mr. Griffin.

Will you place the TV cameras?