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. RANKIN. Did you hear any more than three shots?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. RANKIN. Are you sure of that?
Mr. CURRY. I am positive of that. I heard three shots. I will never
forget it.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you have something, Mr. McCloy?
Mr. McCLOY. I was going to ask you, chief, as you were approaching the
underpass you were looking toward the underpass presumably?
Mr. CURRY. That is right.
Mr. McCLOY. Was the underpass bare of people or were there people on it?
Mr. CURRY. No; I could see some people on each side but not immediately
over, but there were some people up in the railroad yard. I also could
see an officer up there. I don't know who the officer was.
Mr. McCLOY. You could recognize an officer on the top of the underpass?
Mr. CURRY. Yes; their instructions had been to place officers on every
overpass and in every underpass.
Mr. McCLOY. How close were you then to the underpass when you first
heard that shot?
Mr. CURRY. Oh, perhaps 150 feet or 100 feet or so.
Mr. McCLOY. So you are convinced that the shot could not come from the
overpass?
Mr. CURRY. I don't believe it did; no, sir.
Mr. McCLOY. Then----
Mr. CURRY. Because there didn't seem to be any commotion going on over
there. This seemed to be people that I could see, they didn't seem to
run or anything. They just seemed to be there.
Mr. McCLOY. You spoke of the railroad yard. Just where is that railroad
yard in relation to the underpass? We will see that.
Mr. CURRY. It is over----
Mr. McCLOY. It is on the other side.
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir. You see these tracks.
Mr. RANKIN. Mark that as Exhibit 703 and you can refer to.
Mr. CURRY. Yes; here is the School Book Depository. The railroad goes
over.
Mr. DULLES. This aerial view of the Elm Street there, isn't it of the
underpass, will be admitted as 704.
(Commission Exhibit No. 704 was marked for identification, and received
in evidence.)
Mr. McCLOY. Do you call that the railroad yards?
Mr. CURRY. Yes; that is true.
Mr. McCLOY. Above the underpass?
Mr. CURRY. Yes.
Mr. McCLOY. Did you see a number of people in the railroad yard?
Mr. CURRY. I would estimate maybe a half dozen.
Mr. DULLES. They were spectators or were they workmen. They were
spectators?
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir; as well as I was able to tell. They might have
been workmen, too, but I presume it was people who were in the area and
as the motorcade approached they got into position where they perhaps
could have seen it.
Mr. McCLOY. Did you recognize any officer amongst them?
Mr. CURRY. I seemed to recall seeing a uniformed police officer up
there.
Mr. McCLOY. In the railroad yard, and there was no commotion amongst
the railroad yard people?
Mr. CURRY. I don't believe so.
Representative FORD. Do you know who the officer was?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir; but I believe by looking at the assignments we
could determine what officer was up there.
There is an assignment of personnel which has been submitted for the
record.
(Discussion off the record.)
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