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    "ocrText": "Building. In E crime of such gravity, where there is official innocence,\nno stones, would be left untumed. In fact, what was unturned in the form\nof stones which marked a conspiracy 'were so numerous that they resembled\nglacial deposits. Let us continue to pick our way through those deposits\nof first-day conspiratorial stones which jutted up all over Dealey, Plaza\non November 22, 1963, for the trüth is concealed under them.\nNumerous law enforcement officers and spectators immediately after\nthe shots were fired ran toward the railroad yards in pursuit of suspected\nassassins. (VI H 288, II H 181) The films of Dealey Plaza immediately after\nthe shots had been fired dramatically illustrate the rush of persons to the\ngrassy knoll area. Within minutes of the assassination an estimated 50\npolicemen were searching the parking lot and railroad yards. (VI H. 288,\nII H 181)\nPoliceman Billy Hargis left the motorcade and raced up the grassy knoll\nto the apparent source of the shots. (V H 295) Sam Holland, a,spectator,\nfearlessly ,raced into the parking lot which sits atop the grassy knoll from\nthe railroad overpass. (VI H 243-246) Seynmour Weitzman not only raced\nto the area of the knoll, but later located a piece of the President's skull\non the South side of Elm Street and then found a rifle on the 6th floor of\nthe Depository Building. (VII H 107)\nOne report was that a man and woman had been seen scrambling away\nacross the grassy knoll. (Dallas Times Hearald, Nov. 22, p. 1) A man with\na \"headpiece\" in his hand had been seen running away from another spot in\nthe knoll area. (XIX H, .492, XXIV H 222) The first people to reach the parking\nlot, where most of the spectators thought the shots originated from, found\nnumerous footprints in the mud behind a picket fence. (VI H 245-246,\nXXII H 833) Two men with rifles had also been seen on the 6th floor of the\nTexas School Book Depository Bldg. (XXIV H 522) Ten minutes after the\nassassination a suspect raced from the Depository, signaled a car, jumped\n-11-\n11"
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