But I think they told us we were going to have to walk up a couple of flights because the elevator didn't go all the way.
Mr. Belin. Where did you take this elevator?
Mr. Hill. Walked in the front door of the Book Depository and turned to the right. Took the passenger elevator. We did not take the freight elevator. The freight elevator goes all the way, I believe.
Mr. Belin. You took a passenger elevator?
Mr. Hill. Yes.
Mr. Belin. When you got off the passenger elevator, what did you do?
Mr. Hill. We asked them where the stairway was to the top floor, and if this was on the fifth, we walked through—there is a little office section near the elevator. We walked over past it and through a large room to the stairway, and then went all the way as high as the stairway would take us, which would have been on seven.
In the middle of the floor on the seventh floor there was a ladder leading up into an area they called the penthouse, which was used mainly for storage.
Westphal went up this ladder, I know, and the uniformed officer went up it.
The rest of us were checking around the boxes and books.