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Fireside Chat. The fire started near the second-floor escalator around 3 a.m. on the Saturday that Marcus had expected to be "the biggest day of the Christmas shopping season," roared up the stairwell to gut the fourth and fifth floors. In some sections of the store untouched by flames, plastic hangers melted in the intense heat, dropping expensive clothing into dirty, swirling water. More than 150 firemen fought for five hours to control the fire, the costliest in Dallas history...
...minute precision. A Dallas motorcycle cop, M. L. Baker, who was in the presidential motorcade on Nov. 22, had heard the shots, dashed into the Depository building. The Commission had him re-enact his part, timed him at 90 seconds between the time he left his motorcycle and the time he encountered (but did not arrest) Oswald outside a second-floor lunchroom. Could Oswald have run that quickly from the sixth floor to the second? A Secret Service agent, testing, moved at a "fast walk" from the killer's lair to the lunch room in 78 seconds?without being winded...
Inside the second-floor County courtroom in Danielsville, Ga. (pop. 362), the air was hot and humid. On the narrow balcony overlooking the courtroom a dozen Negroes silently watched the proceedings. Below, the seats in the whites-only section were jammed. All had come last week to see the murder trial of State of Georgia v. Joseph Howard Sims and Cecil William Myers...
...President headed upstairs, followed by the herd of reporters, who were admitted to the President's private, second-floor living quarters for drinks, caviar and cheese canapes. Exploring the place, one brunette newswoman peered around a half-open door, quickly retreated. "The President is in his underwear!" she cried. While changing clothes in his bedroom, Lyndon watched a special three-screen TV unit that allowed him to see all the major networks at once. "I feel very relaxed," he told a reporter invited in for a chat, "and even relieved...
Never one to neglect business, Cap took the little girl to his store every day for a while, sometimes let her sleep at night on a cot in his second-floor storeroom near what she recalls as "a row of peculiar long boxes." Her father told her they were "dry goods," but Lady Bird later learned they were coffins...