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. The jail personnel would have brought him down from
downstairs and brought him into the room and then removed him.
Representative FORD. Who handled the actual process of identification
or attempted identification by various witnesses?
Mr. CURRY. Usually Captain Fritz or some of his homicide detectives are
present. I know when they were having a showup for a little lady, I
don't know her name but she was a waitress who observed the shooting of
the officer, I just--I wasn't there during the entire showup but I was
present part of the showup and Captain Fritz was asking her to observe
these people and see if she could pick out the man she saw who shot the
officer and she didn't identify Oswald at that time.
Representative FORD. Did you say the actual process that was--that took
place in these several showups was similar to or different from the
showups in other cases?
Mr. CURRY. The only one where we didn't have any particular witnesses
to show him up to, but the number of the news media had asked if they
couldn't see him and it was almost impossible for all of them to see
him up in this hallway and we decided that the best thing to do, if
we were going to let them see him at all would be to take them and
get them into a room, and then there was utter confusion after we did
that because they tried to overrun him after we got him there and we
immediately removed him and took him back upstairs.
Representative FORD. You mentioned earlier there had been some
allegations to the effect that Oswald had been badly treated.
Mr. CURRY. There was--I didn't hear this myself but someone told me, I
don't recall who it was, that some of the news media, I understood this
was broadcast over the radio and TV.
Representative FORD. Did you investigate that rumor?
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir.
Representative FORD. What did you find out?
Mr. CURRY. I found he had not been mistreated.
Representative FORD. You checked with all the police personnel who had
anything to do with it?
Mr. CURRY. Everyone I knew about and the only marks on him was, that
I could see there was a slight mark on his face up here, and this was
received when he was fighting the officers in that theatre, and they
had to subdue him and in the scuffle, this episode in the theatre, he
apparently received a couple of marks on his face.
But he didn't complain to me about it. I think he--one of the times he
was coming down the hall someone asked him what was the matter with
his eye and he said, "A cop hit me," I believe, or "A policeman hit me."
Representative FORD. Did you ask Oswald whether he had been mistreated?
Mr. CURRY. I don't believe I did, sir.
Representative FORD. But you talked to Oswald on one or more occasions?
Mr. CURRY. I don't know that I ever asked him any questions at all.
I was present during the interrogation, but he was very sullen and
arrogant and he didn't have much to say to anybody. Fritz, I think did
more talking to him than anybody else.
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