Victoria Adams was an employee of the Texas School Book Depository. Immediately after the shooting she came down the only stairs in the building, accompanied by fellow employee Sandra Styles. They had to take the stairs because, for some unknown reason, the electric and phones were cut off shortly before the motorcade went by.  It should be noted that she was one of several witnesses that said the car stopped briefly when the shooting began.

The significance of this lies in the fact that Lee Oswald was seen on the second floor calmly drinking a Coke when a police officer and the building's manager passed through the area. The women did not see him on the stairs where he would have been if, indeed, he was busy shooting the President from the 6th floor just moments before.  It would have been necessary for Oswald to use those same stairs since, for an as yet unexplained reason, electric power to the building was cut off shortly before the shooting.

Her descent and further implications are chronicled in the book “Girl on the Stairs” by Barry Ernest who began looking at the Warren Commission timeline. She was not invited to testify before the Commission.

The Girl on the Stairs: The Search for a Missing Witness to the JFK Assassination
by Barry Ernest

On November 22, 1963, a young Victoria Elizabeth Adams stood behind a fourth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas and watched as Pres. John F. Kennedy was murdered in the streets below. At that moment, her life changed forever. This book tells the story that the government covered up with fabricated evidence.