Original Question: Did the Texas Book Repository continue renovations after JFK was shot?Did the Texas Book Repository continue renovations after JFK was shot?
It wasn't being renovated when the assassination took place, it simply had additional flooring being installed by its own employees. The fifth floor had been completed and they had just started on the sixth floor.
The Texas School Book Depository has changed hands and uses over the last 56 years, but it is still there.
Today it holds the Sixth Floor Museum to the assassination, and a seventh floor 5,500 square foot gallery used for various meetings and other functions.
About 350,000 people visit it annually, an adult ticket is $18, seniors $16. It also has a gift shop and cafe. There is even a live cam on the side the shots were taken from. (They milk it for all it is worth.) Abraham Zapruder’a family also gave his famous film and all rights to it, to the museum after his death.
Gregg Gray replied to your comment on an answer to: "Did the Texas Book Repository continue renovations after JFK was shot?"
The Warren Commision testimony of the workers themselves, contained in Volume III of the 26 Volume Hearing Transcripts and Exhibits. Here is a link to one workers entire testimony, it is long and boring. Testimony Of Bonnie Ray Williams here is relevant portion you are asking about; from Mr Bonnie Ray Williams.
Mr. WILLIAMS. Before November 22, I think we had been working on the fifth floor, I think, about 3 weeks. I think altogether I had been up there just about 4 weeks, I think.
Mr. BALL. And how long had you been on the sixth floor before how long have you been working on the sixth floor before November 22?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Let's see. Before November 22, I think it might have been 2 days--it might have been 2 days. I would say about 2 days, approximately 2 days.
Mr. BALL. Before you started to lay the floor, did you have to move any cartons?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes; we did.
Mr. BALL. From what part of the sixth floor did you move the cartons?
Mr. WILLIAMS. We moved cartons from, I believe, the west side of the sixth floor to the east side of the sixth floor, because I think there was a vacancy in there.
These workers were not in any hurry as the boss (Mr. Truly) was making work for them instead of laying them off, and the workers knew that.
Employees Bonnie Ray Williams, Harold Norman and James Jarman jr. and construction worker Howard Brennan telling their stories
Texas School Book Depository Employees
Employees Bonnie Ray Williams, Harold Norman and James Jarman jr. and construction worker Howard Brennan telling their stories
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