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. And he decides then in all cases of this type whether
or not the police will take him across to the sheriff's jail or the
sheriff will come and get him?
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir; ordinarily it wouldn't even come to my attention
how it was handled.
Mr. RANKIN. Did it come to your attention this time?
Mr. CURRY. It did this time. I had asked, it seemed to me like it was
on Saturday after he had been filed on late or early Friday morning,
the news media many times had asked me when are you going to transfer
him and I said, "I don't know."
Mr. RANKIN. What do you mean by "early Friday morning?"
Mr. CURRY. I mean early Saturday morning. Late Friday night or early
Saturday morning.
Representative FORD. Where do you actually do this filing?
Mr. CURRY. Ordinarily our detectives would go down to the courthouse
which is right near where the President was assassinated and file it
in the district attorney's office. However, in this case the district
attorney and also his assistant was up at the city hall with us, and we
drew up the complaints there at the city hall.
Mr. RANKIN. Who do you mean by we?
Mr. CURRY. When I say we, I mean the Dallas police officers and the
homicide officers working in this case.
Mr. RANKIN. I see.
Representative FORD. What evidence did you have at that point?
Mr. CURRY. I couldn't tell you all the evidence. I think Captain Fritz
can tell you better than I. Captain Fritz just told me on Friday
afternoon he said, "We have sufficient evidence to file a case on
Oswald for the murder of Tippit." Later on that night, somewhere around
midnight, I believe, he told me, he said, "We now have sufficient
evidence to file on Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination of
President Kennedy."
He told me he had talked it over with Henry Wade and with the assistant
district attorney and they agreed we had enough evidence to file a
case, and a decision was made then to file the case, which we did.
Representative FORD. At that time you had the rifle, did you not?
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir.
Representative FORD. Who made the original identification of the rifle,
the kind of rifle that it was?
Mr. CURRY. I don't know, sir.
Representative FORD. It was reported that the original identification
was a 7.65 Mauser. Are those reports true or untrue?
Mr. CURRY. I wouldn't know, sir.
Representative FORD. You don't know?
Mr. CURRY. I don't know.
Representative FORD. Do you know when it was finally determined that it
was not a 7.65 Mauser?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir; I don't know that.
Mr. McCLOY. As far as I know there was no police report that it was a
7.65 rifle.
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. RANKIN. Chief Curry, do you know of any police records of your
police department that showed that this weapon that was purportedly
involved in the assassination was a Mauser rifle?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir; not to my knowledge.
Representative FORD. All of your records show affirmatively it was the
Italian rifle?
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir. That is correct.
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