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    "ocrText": "-8-\nBuilding aiming out at Elm St. and also looking out the window\nto Houston St. by the fire escape. I was able to take the photos\nof the entire Plaza from the roof of the Records Building because\nI made friends with a negro maintenance man working in that building\nnamed John Luster, 31, an employee of the Building since 1962. His\naddress is 3500 Meadow St. Apt. #205.\nNew witness a) Luster was a witness to the assassination who has\nto the Assass- never been questinned by anyone and was very willing\nination\nto tell what he knew. He said that he heard three\nshots but when I questioned him further he said that\nthey were not single shots they were groups of shots\n(three) which he took to be spontaneously exploding\nfirecrackers. He viewed the President on Houston and\nafter the motorcade turned the corner he heard the\nshots and thinking they were only firecrackers he enter-\nSidewalk\ned the sidewalk, street-level, elevator (no one ever\nElevator\nmentioned this! I have film of him going down it)\nHe descended to the basement in the elevator along\nwith three other men whose identity he could not re-\nmember. He did think that one or mere of these men\nwere strangers to him. This is puzzling because there\nis really no reason for a man to go down in this ele-\nvator unless he has work in the basement. There is\na much more practical entrance to the rest of the build-\ning around the corner. I still need still photos of\nthis. The roll I took of this did not come out due\nto a camera malfunction. Also on this roll were photos\nfrom the Dal-Tex Building and from the TSBD.\nb) The Dal-Tex Building still photos did not come out\nbut I feel that we must reevaluate our contention\nthat a shot was fired from the second floor and con-\nsider a shot from the seventh or top floor. The isol-\nation of a small office, one of a row of offices whose\nwindows face out on the Houston St. side. This window\nis well hidden from the street by the shadow cast by\nthe TSBD and because of the fire escape which is attached\ncovering part of the window. See the Altgens Photo.\nAlso in this sort of office enclosure is a clutter of\nracks of clothing. Perfect soundproöfing for any noise\nand also an ideal abundance of place to hide a rifle.\nOn the second floor there is a good vantage point and\nthe shots fired according to the analysis of the Zap-\nruder film indicate that the second floor was a likely\nperch for the assassin. However, this window is in\nplain view of the entire floor of the building (see\nany\nor\naerial shot of the roof of the and if there\nwere any other spectators on that floor they would have\nseen the assassin or at least would have had any easy\nview of him had they been so inclined. His getaway would\nhave been difficult if he made any strange movements\nbecause he was so open to any workers on that floor ex-\ncept for the few people in the small front offices just\noutside the elevator."
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