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
Senator COOPER. I want to come back to that point later, but I want to
ask this, outside of what you had in your police files, your records,
did you know yourself, or did you know whether anyone in authority in
the police force or anyone in the police force, to your knowledge, had
any knowledge of the presence of Oswald in Dallas?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir; I have asked my criminal intelligence section,
which would have been the persons who had knowledge of this.
Senator COOPER. Had anyone informed you that he was working in the
Texas School Book Depository Building?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Had he ever tangled with the Dallas Police in any respect
of which there is any record?
Mr. CURRY. We have no record at all of him.
Representative FORD. Did the Secret Service people inquire of you as to
your knowledge of these various groups that you had infiltrated?
Mr. CURRY. I don't remember them specifically asking me what were these
groups planning to do.
Representative FORD. Did you volunteer any information on it?
Mr. CURRY. I think perhaps we told them what we had done. They
were aware of the fact that we did know the plans of the various
organizations, and I know we sent Lieutenant Revill and a couple of his
men up to Denison, or Denton, to talk to a man that had purportedly
said they were going to embarrass the President and had made some
remarks about it and after we talked with him he said, "I won't even
be in Dallas. I was just popping off. I will assure you I am not even
going to be down there. I don't want any part of it."
Then some of the study group in North Texas, we had an informant in
this group, and they had decided they would be in Dallas with some
placards to express opinions about the President or some of his views.
Some of these people were arrested after the shooting because we were
afraid that the people were going to harm them. They were down around
the Trade Mart with some placards.
Senator COOPER. I have a couple of more questions.
Do you remember the full page advertisement that was in the Dallas
paper?
Mr. CURRY. I saw it; yes.
Senator COOPER. Directed against the President of the United States?
Mr. CURRY. Yes.
Senator COOPER. What date did you give that statement in making any
kind of preparations for his visit?
Mr. CURRY. In the first place, I didn't think it was very appropriate,
it makes us apprehensive, a little more apprehensive of the security of
the President, but we were doing everything that I knew we could do to
protect him. I will never forget that as we turned to go down toward
that underpass the remark was made, "We have almost got it made," and I
was very relieved that we had brought him through this downtown area,
and were fixing to get on this expressway where we could take him out
to the Trade Mart where we had a tremendous amount of security set up
for him.
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