Mr. Belin.

Miss ADAMS. No, sir.
Mr. BELIN. You went back in through the front entrance, through the front of the building?
Miss ADAMS. Well, I didn't go back in right away.

Mr. Belin.

What did you do then? There is a street that would be a continuation of Elm Street that goes in front of the building, and Elm Street itself angles into the freeway. Did you go back either of those streets?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, sir. I went by the one directly in front of the building.

Mr. Belin.

What did you do when you got there?

Miss ADAMS. When I got there, I happened to look around and noticed several of the employees, and I noticed Joe Molina, for one, was standing in front of the building, and also Avery Davis, who works with me, and I said, "What do you think has happened?"
And she said, "I don't know."
And I said, "I want to find out." I think the President is shot.
There was a motorcycle that was parked on the corner of Houston and Elm directly in front of the east end of the building, and I paused-there to listen to the report on the police radio, and they said that shots had been fired which apparently came either from the second floor or the fourth floor window, and so I panicked, as I was at the only open window on the fourth floor.

Mr. Belin.

Did they say second floor or second floor from the top?
Miss ADAMS. It said second floor. So then I decided maybe I had better go back into the building, and going up the stairs---
Mr. BELIN. Now at this time when you went back into the building, were there any policemen standing in front of the building keeping people out?
Miss ADAMS. There was an officer on the stairs itself, and he was prohibiting people from entering the building, that is correct. But I told him I worked there.

Mr. Belin.

Did he let you come back in?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, sir.

Mr. Belin.

Then what did you do ?

Miss ADAMS. Following that, I pushed the button for the passenger elevator, but the power had been cut off on the elevator, so I took the stairs to the second floor.
Mr. BELIN. You then went all the way back to the northwest corner of the building and took the same set of stairs you had previously taken to come down, or did you take the stairs by the passenger elevator?
Miss ADAMS. By the passenger elevator.

Mr. Belin.

Do those stairs go above floor 2?
Miss ADAMS. No, sir; they didn't.

Mr. Belin.

What did you do when you got to the second floor?

Miss ADAMS. I went into the Texas School Book Depository office and just listened for a few minutes to the people that were congregating there, and decided there wasn't anything interesting going on, and went out and walked around the hall to the freight elevator meaning the one on the northwest corner.

Mr. Belin.

Would it have been the west or the east? The one nearest the stairs or the other one?
Miss ADAMS. Yes; the one nearest the stairs.

Mr. Belin.

Then what did you do?

Miss ADAMS. I went into the elevator which was stopped on the second floor, with two men who were dressed in suit and hats, and I assumed they were plainclothesmen.

Mr. Belin.

What did you do then?
Miss ADAMS. I tried to get the elevator to go to the fourth floor, but it wasn't operating, so the gentlemen lifted the elevator gate and we went out and ran up the stairs to the fourth floor.

Mr. Belin.

Then you went back to the Scott Foresman Company offices?
Miss ADAMS. Yes, sir.

Mr. BELIN. Now trying to reconstruct your actions insofar as the time sequence, which we haven't done, what is your best estimate of the time between
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