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. Yes, sir; there was one other complaint in his file, where
he had stopped a lady and given her a ticket and also had given her, he
gave her two tickets, one for no operator's license, and after he had
issued the tickets she found her driver's license, and she called to
him across the street, and said something about she found her license
and he told her okay, show it in court, but she thought he was being
rather abrupt and discourteous to her, she felt like he should have
come back over and taken this ticket for driver's license and destroyed
it.
Under our rules and regulations you cannot destroy a ticket; if it is
destroyed it has to be accounted in our auditor's office and that was
the only complaint in the years on the force.
Mr. DULLES. A rumor reached me that Officer Tippit had been some way
involved in some narcotic trouble, I don't know what the foundation of
that is. Do you know anything about that at all?
Mr. CURRY. Nothing whatsoever; no, sir.
Representative FORD. You mean you know nothing about it or you checked
it out and there is no validity?
Mr. CURRY. This is the first I ever heard of it that he was involved in
any narcotics.
Representative FORD. But your records, so far as you know, would not
indicate such?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Thank you.
Mr. McCLOY. Did you, so far as you know, did Tippit know Ruby?
Mr. CURRY. I don't believe he did. I am sure he didn't. He would not be
the type I think that would even have any occasion to know him because
some of the officers that we found that did know him, either worked in
the area where he had a night club or some of the officers that worked
in the vice squad who had occasion to go in and inspect these cases
or a few officers we found they went out there for social purposes,
outside their regular duty.
Tippit, for a number of years, had been assigned out in Oak Cliff. I
don't think he had ever been assigned in an area where Jack Ruby--well
Jack Ruby did live in Oak Cliff but I am sure, to the best of my
knowledge, Tippit never had any occasion to be around Jack Ruby.
Mr. DULLES. Was Tippit at the time he was killed on a regular assigned
assignment or was he just roving in a particular area?
Mr. CURRY. On this particular day, now he had been assigned to Oak
Cliff for several months farther out than he was, but when this
incident occurred at the Texas School Book Depository, this is
customary policy in the police department if something happens on this
district and tying up several squads that the squads from the other
district automatically move in in a position where they can cover off
or something else might happen here, much the same as fire equipment
does, this is automatic.
Mr. RANKIN. Will you explain that further?
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