Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
District Attorney Wade also held one more press conference. Before
doing so on Sunday evening, he returned once more to the police
station and held a meeting with “all the brass” except Curry. Wade
told them that “people are saying * * * you had the wrong man and you
all were the one who killed him or let him out here to have him killed
intentionally.” Wade told the police that “somebody ought to go out in
television and lay out the evidence that you had on Oswald, and tell
them everything.” He sat down and listed from memory items of evidence
in the case against Oswald. According to Wade, Chief Curry refused to
make any statements because he had told an FBI inspector that he would
say no more. The police refused to furnish Wade with additional details
of the case.[C5-237]
Wade nonetheless proceeded to hold a lengthy formal press conference
that evening, in which he attempted to list all of the evidence that
had been accumulated at that point tending to establish Oswald as the
assassin of President Kennedy. Unfortunately, at that time, as he
subsequently testified, he lacked a thorough grasp of the evidence and
made a number of errors.[C5-238] He stated that Oswald had told a woman
on a bus that the President had been killed, an error apparently caused
by the busdriver having confused Oswald with another passenger who was
on the bus after Oswald had left. Wade also repeated the error about
Oswald’s having a map marked with the route of the motorcade. He told
reporters that Oswald’s description and name “went out by the police
to look for him.”[C5-239] The police never mentioned Oswald’s name in
their broadcast descriptions before his arrest.[C5-240]
Wade was innocent of one error imputed to him since November 24.
The published transcript of part of the press conference furnished
to newspapers by the Associated Press represented Wade as having
identified the cabdriver who took Oswald to North Beckley Avenue
after the shooting, as one named “Darryl Click.” The transcript as it
appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post of November 26,
reads:
A. [Wade] a lady. He then--the bus, he asked the bus driver to
stop, got off at a stop, caught a taxicab driver, Darryl Click.
I don’t have his exact place--and went to his home in Oak
Cliff, changed his clothes hurriedly, and left.[C5-241]
The correct transcript of the press conference, taken from an audio
tape supplied by station WBAP, Fort Worth, is as follows:
A. [Wade] A lady. He then--the bus, he asked the bus driver to
stop, got off at a stop, caught a taxicab driver.
Q. Where?
A. In Oak Cliff. I don’t have the exact place--and went to
his home in Oak Cliff, changed his clothes hurriedly and
left.[C5-242]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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