Mr. Hubert. Did you hear him say anything?
Mr. Stevenson. No, sir. Frankly, I was not close enough. The only ones that I could see or did see were those lined up in the front of the room.
Mr. Hubert. How many people were in that room, do you suppose?
Mr. Stevenson. I would say, and this is an estimate on my part, Mr. Hubert—I would say from 100 to 125, including officers and news media and everything.
Mr. Hubert. Do you know what security plan or actual operations were put into effect with respect to Oswald during that period?
Mr. Stevenson. When he left upstairs, he was taken back through the jail office. From the jail office down, there is an elevator to the downstairs jail office, onto the "showup stage," as we call it in the assembly room. He was taken down through the jail; was not taken out from there.
Now to take him into the showup room, I was not where I could see how many officers were around him. But it was necessary to bring him from the elevator next to the homicide bureau every time we brought him down to interview him. At that time we would have as many as three officers with him, and from four to half a dozen officers on the route through to the next door.
Mr. Hubert. Do you know what check was made of the people who were allowed into the assembly room?
Mr. Stevenson. No one was supposed to have been in the assembly room or on the third floor except news media properly identified.
Mr. Hubert. How was this established?