Mr. Truly. I believe so. I believe it to be.
Mr. McCloy. In your judgment, you think that is the route that Oswald took?
Mr. Truly. I think—he had two possible routes there. One of them, he could come half way down the east wall and down this way, but he would have to make one more turn. But if he came all the way down the east wall to where the rows of books stop, he had a straight run toward the sixth floor stairs.
Mr. Dulles. You do not think he used any of the elevators at any time to get from the sixth to the second floor?
Mr. Truly. You mean after the shooting? No, sir; he just could not, because those elevators, I saw myself, were both on the fifth floor, they were both even. And I tried to get one of them, and then when we ran up to the second floor—it would have been impossible for him to have come down either one of those elevators after the assassination. He had to use the stairway as his only way of getting down—since we did see the elevators in those positions.
Mr. Dulles. He could not have taken it down and then have somebody else go up to that floor and leave it?
Mr. Truly. No, sir; I don't believe he would have had time for that.
Representative Ford. He couldn't have taken an elevator down and then sent it up to a higher floor?
Mr. Truly. No, sir. Yes; he could. I suppose he could put his hand through the slotted bars and touched one of the upper floors.
Mr. Belin. On both elevators?