Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. CURRY. I don't believe so, I am not sure. I am not positive.
Because they were in pretty rapid succession. But after I noticed some
commotion in the President's car and a motorcycle officer ran up aside
of me and I asked him what had happened and he said shots had been
fired, and I said, "Has the President been hit or has the President's
party been hit?
And he said, "I am sure they have."
I said, "Take us to the hospital immediately," and I got on the
radio and I told them to notify Parkland Hospital to stand by for an
emergency, and this is approximately, I would say, perhaps a couple of
miles or so to Parkland Hospital from this, and we went to Parkland and
I notified them to have them to be standing by for an emergency, and we
went out there under siren escort and went into the emergency entrance.
As I recall, I got out of the car and rushed to the emergency entrance
and told them to bring the stretchers out, and they loaded the
President, President Kennedy and Governor Connally onto stretchers and
took them into the hospital.
Mrs. Kennedy, I went into the hospital, and I know she was outside
the door of where they were working with the President, and someone
suggested to her that she sit down and she was very calm, and she said,
"I am all right. Some of your people need to sit down more than I do."
But everyone was very concerned. I remained around the hospital. I was
contacted by some of the special sergeants who asked me to stand by in
my car and get another car and take the President, then Vice President
Johnson to Love Field.
Mr. RANKIN. You have told us about that, haven't you?
Mr. CURRY. Yes; I have told you about that.
Mr. RANKIN. And you told us you attended the swearing in of President
Johnson?
Mr. CURRY. Yes; I did.
Mr. RANKIN. And that you waited until the plane left and then you came
back?
Mr. CURRY. To my offices.
Mr. RANKIN. And Judge Hughes left at the same time?
Mr. CURRY. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Now, did you do anything about the assassination after this
or at some time?
Mr. CURRY. No. I left this to be handled by Captain Fritz who is in
charge of all homicide investigations.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you know whether anything was done, did you make inquiry?
Mr. CURRY. Yes; he told me they were interrogating him, Oswald about
the assassination and trying to check on the movements of Oswald, and
they obtained, I understand, some search warrants to go out and search,
they found out where he had been staying.
Mr. RANKIN. What about the building immediately after the occasion?
Mr. CURRY. It was sealed off, Inspector Sawyer who is a uniformed
police inspector, I think was the first ranking officer to the School
Depository Building. He would have had to come perhaps 10 blocks. I
believe he told me that he was about at Akard and Maine when this came
on the air that we had had some trouble down there.
Mr. RANKIN. You say you imagine. Is this something that they reported
to you?
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