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Unknown Workmen Laying New Floor
They were refurbishing the floors in the Depository that week, which allowed unknown workmen in and out of the building.(1)This is an important point, as it is otherwise difficult to explain how a group of strangers could have been assured of easy access to the building.
Unfortunately, it is not true. There were no "unknown workmen" roaming the hallways; the work on the floor was being performed by a half-dozen Texas School Book Depository employees, including assassination eyewitnesses Bonnie Ray Williams, Charles Givens, Bill Shelley, Billy Lovelady, and Danny Arce.(2)
NOTES:1. Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film (New York: Applause, 1992), p. 162. All quotations are from the shooting script and may vary slightly from the finished motion picture.
2. Warren Commission Report, pp. 68, 140, 143; Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. III, pp. 163-65, 187; Vol. VI, pp. 328, 337, 364.