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...commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, the Marx-spouting ne'er-do-well, had fired a mail-order rifle from a sixth-floor window of Dallas' Texas School Book Depository, killing John Kennedy and wounding Texas Governor John Connally as they rode by in an open limousine. The report also said that the fleeing Oswald had murdered Dallas Patrolman J. D. Tippit within an hour after he shot Kennedy. And the commission concluded that those crimes, as well as the slaying of Lee Oswald himself by Nightclub Owner Jack Ruby before TV cameras in the Dallas Police...
Fireman use a ladder to enter the building through a window in the south wall to evacuate other students on the sixth floor. Master Bullitt meets Chandler and University Police trying to break through fire exits on the seventh floor to reach any remaining students. Using a pass key, they enter three suites, but are blocked by smoke. Garland E. Allen, Senior Tutor of Quincy House, crawls along the sixth-floor hall, under the smoke, attempting to warn other students who may still be trapped...
Hose trucks, hook-and-ladders, pumping wagons, and 200 evacuated Quincy students fill DeWolfe St. as thirty-foot flames roar through a broken sixth-floor window...
...second fire company arrives, bringing the number of fire fighters to 107, and the equipment to 17 pieces. Fire breaks through sixth-floor windows on the west side of the House. Rumors spread that Robert Sinclair has not been evacuated...
Firemen ascend the ladder toward the sixth-floor window on the courtyard side, carrying a three-inch hose. They break through the unbroken corner of the window with the nozzle and bring the fire under control...