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On a warm November afternoon in 1963, a young Victoria Elizabeth Adams stood behind a fourth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. She watched as John Kennedy was murdered in the streets below. Then, with a co-worker in tow, she ran down the back stairs of the building in order to get outside and determine what had happened.
At that precise moment, her life changed forever.
Unknowingly, she had descended those stairs at the exact same time the government would later say Lee Oswald had been on them as he made his escape from the sixth floor sniper’s nest.
Yet Miss Adams had seen and heard no one.
Her truths caused serious problems for the Warren Commission. Her pleas for ways the government could verify her story were ignored. So too was the woman who went down the stairs with Miss Adams. Instead, the government concluded this witness was simply mistaken, wrong in her estimations of time. She would eventually be branded a liar.
But she knew different. When other witnesses began dying under mysterious circumstances, Miss Adams became afraid. She left Dallas, and vowed to never tell her story again.
The Girl on the Stairs is the tale of the author’s three-decades-long hunt for this elusive witness. Crystal clear with her memory when he finds her, she is still plagued by the fears of Dallas. Yet she does not want to die with the truth and is convinced to talk. Discovered too is the co-worker who accompanied Miss Adams down the stairs. Both women provide the details the government did not want to hear.
Woven throughout this frightening, humbling and often amusing journey is a story filled with other discovered truths found along the way, many that debunk the still popular myths and theories surrounding the crime, others that not only corroborate Miss Adams but support a case of official cover-up.
The Girl on the Stairs is more than just another book on the Kennedy assassination.
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