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
Mrs. RANKIN. On the record, we will supply for the purposes of this
record the name of the officer and check it with Chief Curry, who was
on the underpass or really the over part of the pass.
Mr. CURRY. Really over.
Mr. RANKIN. At the time of the motorcade.
Representative FORD. Who determined there should be one, not more
officers at an overpass?
Mr. CURRY. Deputy Chief Lunday and Assistant Chief Batchelor went over
this route with Sorrels, and I believe Lawson was with them. And they
were the ones who determined how many men would be placed at each
location.
Mr. RANKIN. The inquiry I think particularly is did the Secret Service
decide it would be one or did you decide it would be one?
Mr. CURRY. No; it would be the Secret Service because we just let them
tell us how many men they wanted. The only deviation we made from that
was in the security of the Trade Mart. I believe they requested 143
men, as I recall to secure the Trade Mart, and I believe we supplied
them with 193 or 194 men, somewhat in excess of what they asked for at
this location.
I called the State police, and they furnished a number of men, about 30
men, and Sheriff Decker furnished about 15, and I think we furnished
from our department everybody that they asked for really, so we had a
surplus.
Representative FORD. But the details as to how many men should be
placed where were determined by Lawson and Sorrels of the Secret
Service?
Mr. CURRY. That is right, sir; yes, sir.
(At this point Senator Cooper entered the hearing room.)
Mr. McCLOY. May I ask one question?
As you were leading this or just ahead of the President's car, as you
came around past the School Depository Building, was there anything
that attracted your attention to the building at all as you went by?
Mr. CURRY. Not at all.
Mr. McCLOY. There was no movement or anything?
Mr. CURRY. Not at all.
Mr. McCLOY. You weren't conscious of looking up at the windows?
Mr. CURRY. Not at all.
Mr. McCLOY. You had Secret Service men in that car with you?
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCLOY. Were they inspecting the windows as they went by?
Mr. CURRY. It seemed that Sorrels, he was looking around a whole lot
and so was Lawson. I know comments were being made along the route as
to first one thing and then another.
Mr. DULLES. If you had had the other Car with police officers in it to
which you referred and which I gathered you recommended what would have
been the function and duties of the officers in that particular car?
Mr. CURRY. It would have been, of course, to guard the President, but
in the event that anything happened they would have immediately dropped
out of their car with rifles and submachine guns. That was what we had
planned.
Mr. RANKIN. Now, as a part of the plans for the motorcade, was there
anything said about the inspection of buildings along the route?
Mr. CURRY. The comment was made that in a city like this how in the
world could you inspect or put somebody in every window of every
building.
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