Dorothy Ann Garner

[Dealey Joe]

When she first heard the shots, Dorothy Ann Garner was sitting at a desk behind a fourth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. With her were Elsie Dorman, Sandra Styles, and Victoria Adams. Mrs. Garner was an office supervisor for the Scott, Foresman Co., publishers of textbooks, with headquarters in Chicago. The company's Dallas regional office was located on that floor. She had been employed there for more than 10 years. Her employees would describe her as a very dedicated, professional woman. According to one she was "detail-oriented" and "never missed a thing." "She demanded the best, watched the clock like a hawk and tolerated no nonsense or talking when she ruled her kingdom," Victoria Adams would say. "If you can picture an old fashioned prim librarian telling everyone to 'shush,' you have an idea of the power and demeanor of Dorothy Garner." On November 22, 1963, Mrs. Garner took a break from her duties and joined the three other women to watch as the presidential motorcade passed below. Elsie Dorman sat on the floor behind a window that had been partially opened for her benefit; she was filming the event with her husband's recently purchased video camera. Behind her stood Miss Styles and Miss Adams. Mrs. Dorman told the FBI two days later she felt the shots had come from the area of the Dallas County Records Building, located cattycorner to the Depository. Mrs. Garner, interviewed by the FBI on March 20, 1964, said she felt the shots originated from somewhere west of the building. Nothing else appears on the public record regarding these two women. Neither was questioned by the Warren Commission and their names do not appear anywhere within the 888 pages of the Warren Report. This is particularly disturbing when one considers the significance and subsequent controversy surrounding what fellow employee Victoria Adams did following the shooting. Miss Adams told authorities she and Sandra Styles left the fourth-floor window moments later and descended the back stairs to the first floor. The timing of their actions was crucial. If Miss Adams was accurate, the pair had been on those stairs at the same time Lee Oswald was as he raced down them from the sixth floor sniper's lair. Oswald was on his way to a second-floor lunchroom encounter with Dallas policeman Marrion Baker and Depository manager Roy Truly, who had come up those same stairs from the first floor. Yet Miss Adams had seen and heard no one. The dilemma was ignored by the Warren Commission for it never included Miss Adams in any of the time tests conducted regarding Oswald's escape. She was the only person excluded. Nor did it question any of the three other women who were with her at the window. It simply concluded that Oswald was on the stairs at that time and if Miss Adams did not see or hear him, then she was wrong. She must have come down the stairs later than she thought, the Report surmised, after Oswald had passed the fourth floor going down, after the lunchroom encounter had occurred, and after Baker and Truly had continued beyond the fourth floor going up to the roof, Baker's original destination.

[kenmurray]

From Jim Marrs book "Crossfire":http://books.google.com/books?id=UppSEd ... er&f=false