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    "ocrText": "Kennedy According to Henry Wage, the D. A. of Dallas,\nprelim-\ninary reports indicated more than one person was involved in the\nshooting the electric chair is too good for the killers. (Dallas\nMorning News, Nov. 23, 1963) There was reason to believe of course,\nthat others might be involved as accessories befor and after the\nfact. It should be added that, if Oswald was involved, there was\nimmediate evidence of at least one accessory after the fact. The\nonly convincing eyewitness identification of Oswald made that day was\nby a Deputy Sheriff, Roger D. Craig, who saw him leave the Depos-\nitory ten minutes after the shooting and then identified him at\npolice HQ's. (VI H 266 &c 26) He stated that he saw Oswald run\nfrom the Depository and jump into a car driven by another man whick\nsped away from the scene. Oswald, according to Craig, immediately\nadmitted that he had full knowledge of the incident. (VI H 270;\nXIX H 524)\nOn that afternoon, the strongest evidence against Oswald was that\nhe was inside the Depository when the shots were fired. Since he\nworked in the Depository, and there were also others in the build-\ning at the time of the assassination, this is poor evidence indeed\nWhen asked where he was at the time of the shots, he replied that\nhe was on the first floor eating his lunch. Since patrolman Marior\nBaker and Depository manager Roy Truly rushed up into the Depository\nimmediately following the shots and found Oswald in the second\nfloor lunchroom, there would appear to be no reason to question\nOswald's claim. Baker testified he was calm and was not out of -\nbreath. (W-149, 152) Depository employees who were near the stairs\nor who ran down them were questioned, but none had seen or heard\nOswald descending the stairs. (W-71; VI H 388; XXII H 632, 676) .\n-25-\n25"
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