Vicki Adams: The Lost Interview

[Martin Weidmann]

If you look at the Bell film linked in posts 3 &4 of this thread: https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,3893.0.html the aftermath of the shots can be seen. From appearances, it appears to me that people didn’t begin to cross Elm Street and run up the grassy knoll until after the camera cars (convertibles) had left Dealey Plaza. Mark Tyler has the camera cars leaving Dealey Plaza approximately one minute and fifteen seconds after the shots were fired. It seems to me that Vicky Adams must have stayed at the window until people were running past Elm Street and towards the railroad yards. Otherwise, how would she know that she wanted to go back there to find out what was going on?

From appearances, it appears to me

It seems to me

Isn't just too bad that "it appears to me" and "it seems to me" isn't actual evidence of anything, except perhaps a biased opinion?

Otherwise, how would she know that she wanted to go back there to find out what was going on?

Where does Adams say that's what she wanted to do? It isn't in her FBI statement of 11/23/63 nor is it her WC testimony. The simple fact is that the stairs (and elevators) in the back of the building offered her the fastest way to get out of the building and Adams would have known that.

[Marjan Rynkiewicz]

Adams seems to have taken a few minutes to get to near the grassy knoll carpark area, where she was told to go back.

Seems? Where did you get this information from?

If you want a problem that needs to be explained, try this one; After Adams and Styles were told by a police man to return to the building, they went to the front entrance at Elm street and when the arrived there, Styles, re-entered the building before it was sealed of. Adams stayed outside a bit longer and found herself being stopped from re-entering by the officers who had sealed of the building. So, how could Styles get to the front office and re-enter the, still unsealed, building if the women did not leave the 4th floor at the time Adams said they did?

I deduced this information. (1) Adams exited the dock at say 100 sec. (2) An Officer took sentry on the railway line between the grassy knoll carpark & the TSBD at say 300 sec. (3) Adams should have been able to join the throng in the carpark well before 300 sec, unless (4) Adams took more than 200 sec to get to the sentry. (5) Adams should have been able to make her way along & over some rails & rough ground to the carpark in less than 100 sec, which (6) is a problem.

[Charles Collins]

Miss Adams: Yes, sir; going down the stairs toward the back, I was running. I ran to the railroad tracks.

[Michael Capasse]

She heard the shots and immediately ran down the back stairs. Sandra Styles confirmed it b/c she ran with her.
Dorothy Garner confirmed it happened before the cop and building manager passed the 4th floor.

[Martin Weidmann]

I deduced this information. (1) Adams exited the dock at say 100 sec. (2) An Officer took sentry on the railway line between the grassy knoll carpark & the TSBD at say 300 sec. (3) Adams should have been able to join the throng in the carpark well before 300 sec, unless (4) Adams took more than 200 sec to get to the sentry. (5) Adams should have been able to make her way along & over some rails & rough ground to the carpark in less than 100 sec, which (6) is a problem.

So, it's speculation. Got it.

[Martin Weidmann]

Miss Adams: Yes, sir; going down the stairs toward the back, I was running. I ran to the railroad tracks.

You are aware, are you not, that there is a railroad track directly next to the TSBD annex which goes behind the loading dock?

So, Adams and Styles, after leaving the loading dock were always going to be running "to the railroad tracks".

The decision to run there could have easily be made just after they left the loading dock. And it wouldn't have been a difficult decision to make, as they knew that the shots were fired at the motorcade as it passed the grassy knoll.
There wouldn't have been much point in running in the other direction, would it now?

[Charles Collins]

From her FBI statement:

“Sandra Styles and I then ran out of the building via the stairs and went in the direction of the railroad where we had observed other people running.“

I have never heard of  anyone saying people other than Adams & Styles were running around the northeast corner of the TSBD towards the railroad yard. And the fact that Adams said “had observed” indicates to me that they must have seen them running from the fourth floor window. If not, I think that it would have made better sense for them to use the elevator and front door to get to Elm Street where the shooting occurred.