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    "ocrText": "November 26, 1963\nMr. J.E. Curry,\nChief of Police\nSubject: Shooting of Lee Oawald\nSir:\nOn Sunday, November 24, 1963, at around 11AM, Deputy Chief\nStevenson approached me in the administration offices and\ndirected me to place two officers at the Commerce Street\nentrance to the ramp leading into the basement of the City\nHall. He said to instruct these two officers that an\narmored truck was enroute and for them to assist the truck\nback as far as possible down the ramp into the City Hall.\nHe also told me to take any remaining detectives that were\navailable on the third floor to the basement and place them\nany place they were needed in the basement to supplement\nthe officers already stationed. Most of the detectives had\npreviously been sent to the basement. I entered each of\nthe bureaus except Homicide and Robbery and told the duty\nofficer to have any available officers to report outside\nthe jail office and went to the basement. Two or three\ndetectives accompanied me and remained near the jail office.\nI went to the head of the ramp on Commerce Street and in-\nformed Patrolman Jez and one other patrolman to remain\nthere and keep the way clear and to assist the armored\ntruck in backing into the City Hall. I informed Captain\nTalbert of these instructions.\nI then returned to near the jail office and stationed some\nof the detectives at the doors leading into the building\nproper, and noticed the Press Media was inside the jail\noffice, but outside the admitting desk. I saw Assistant\nChief Batchelor and Deputy Chief Stevenson and called Chief\nBatchelor's attention to the people in the jail office. I\naccompanied him inside and upon his instructions this area\nwas cleared. Upon leaving the jail office we also had all\npersons except security personnel moved north of a line\nrunning east from the brick corner of the jail office to\nthe railing on the opposite side and on a line from this\npoint running east to the exit lanes for cars from the\nbasement to the ramp itself.\nDeputy Chief Stevenson then approached and said there had\nbeen a change in plans and, as the truck could not get into\nthe City Hall, they were going to use two cars. At this\ntime two police cars were started and brought up onto the\nramp. Several officers had to move to allow the cars to\nget onto the ramp. I had given instructions to (cont'd)\n56"
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