I mean other than as an assassination lookout. If someone had books, why not put them in a library or a bookstore or an archive? Why did anyone need an entire building to deposit books?
Just stumbled on something that is a big ME for me, wondering if this resonates for anyone else. I was watching the latest season of the Umbrella Academy and - minor spoiler alert - it involves time travel around the events of the JFK assassination. Episode 2 they are at the infamous Texas Book Depository and it has this big, garish billboard on top of it advertising Hertz rental cars. Stuck out like a sore thumb. I just assumed was part of an alternative timeline type thing, which would align with visual styling of the show, etc. Just in case though I decided to google it and....
Holy shit. That billboard was actually there in 1963! https://www.jfk.org/the-assassination/history-of-the-texas-school-book-depository/
Does anyone else remember this huge, yellow, totally out-of-place looking car rental billboard being on top of one of the most famous buildings in American history? Because I sure don’t!
Texas School Book Depository circa 1963
Update: found film footage from the day that shows the sign up on the building as well (starting at 6:17): https://youtu.be/Avv_iwkXq_8
For reference, it’s the building JFK was shot from.
I just learned this today, but hearing it, it just screamed “indie college rock band” to me. I’m not sure, I might be crazy
I know that anyone who worked at the Texas School Book Depository in the '60s is likely over 70 now, so this will probably go nowhere. Anyway, I want to know about that place in the days, weeks, months and years after it happened.
For instance:
- There had to have been someone hired who replaced Oswald. Did you know that person and was that person aware that they took his over his duties?
- If you were ever alone on the sixth floor, did you get the creeps when you walked by the Oswald window? Was it even accessible?
- Were there any cool inside jokes about Oswald that got carried down to the next generation of workers?
- Was there that one guy who would tell the same story about that fateful day over and over again? Did you want to kick his ass for telling his story too much?
- Do you know of someone who was working on 11-22-63 who continued at the company until it relocated to northwest Dallas in 1970? What happened to the company once it relocated? Did it merge with another company? Did it close? Did people who work there after the move still talk about Oswald?
After seeing the fatal head shot, Adams and co-worker Sandra Styles ran to the stairwell and raced down the stairs to the first floor, determined to get out the back of the building to see what they could find in the railroad yard behind the fence on the grassy knoll.
The key aspect of her testimony was that the stairway Adams took was the same stairway Lee Harvey Oswald would have had to have taken to get from the sixth floor to the lunchroom, where he was found by Baker and Truly. Yet, Adams testified she saw and heard nobody else on the stairs at that time. She estimated the time between hearing the shots and leaving the window to head for the stairway was between 15 and 20 seconds. She estimated it took less than a minute to run down the stairs from the fourth floor to the first floor. The problem was that Adams did not see Oswald passing her on the stairs; she testified she did not hear anyone else on the stairs when she was running down.
Investigative reporter Barry Ernest describes in his book “The Girl on the Stairs” his 35-year search to find and interview Victoria Adams. When he finally found her in 2002, Adams repeated for him her story in person. She explained how various government officials, including the Dallas Police Department, had harassed her over her testimony.
She produced for Ernest a 1964 letter her attorney had written to L. Lee Rankin, the chief counsel for the Warren Commission, complaining that someone had made changes in her deposition, altering her meaning. She explained to Ernest that she left Dallas after the assassination because she was seeking to disappear. “Remember, though, I was a very young woman at the time (22 years old) and believed in my government,” she told Ernest. “Because of the strange circumstances and discounting of my statements, my multiple questioning by various government agencies and the Warren Commission’s conclusions, I lost my starry-eyed beliefs in the integrity of our government. And I was scared, too. I was a young lady alone with no family or friend support at the time.”
Reviewing with Ernest her testimony as published in the Warren Commission volumes, Adams insisted her testimony had been altered. “The freight elevator had not moved, and I did not see anyone on the stairs,” she insisted to Ernest. When Ernest asked her why the Warren Commission never called Sandra Styles to testify, Adams speculated, “Looking backwards I think they didn’t want to corroborate any evidence.”
Yet, the record i
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