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. I don't know why it wasn't in that log except that these
logs, after they are recorded, they are pretty difficult to try to take
everything off of them, channel 1 and channel 2 is in on them and they
spent many hours going over these and copying these.
This would be available and I listened to our recording.
Mr. RANKIN. That is Exhibit 705 you are talking about?
Mr. CURRY. That is right.
Mr. RANKIN. So if there is a discrepancy between the two, are you
satisfied that Exhibit 705 is correct?
Mr. CURRY. Is the correct exhibit; yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Commission Document No. 290 does say at the heading that
most routine transmissions were left out for reasons of brevity.
Would that be any explanation?
Mr. CURRY. Perhaps it could be, yes. Because these would have been
routine broadcasts. The fact the squad was moving into this area
because this is more or less normal procedure when we have incidents
occurring of any magnitude, the squads immediately begin moving in to
cover officers of the district.
Mr. RANKIN. You were going to tell us about how it came to your
attention about the moving of Lee Oswald to the jail from your place on
Saturday?
Mr. CURRY. To the county jail?
Mr. RANKIN. Yes.
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir.
I asked Captain Fritz a time or two when he wanted to move Oswald,
because this is left up to him. Whoever will be handling the case, I
mean I don't enter in the transfer of prisoners. I don't ordinarily
even know when they are going to be transferred.
Mr. RANKIN. Why is that?
Mr. CURRY. It is just a routine matter.
Mr. RANKIN. Can you tell us is that involved quite a few times in your
operations?
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir. Usually it is a daily transfer of prisoners,
and usually the sheriff's office sends up there and picks them up on
routine prisoners.
Mr. RANKIN. Are there a number each day?
Mr. CURRY. I would say perhaps anywhere from maybe none to 15 a day.
Mr. RANKIN. When did you talk to Officer or Captain Fritz about this?
Mr. CURRY. I think I talked to him some on Saturday, because the
newspaper people or the news media kept asking me when are going to
transfer him?
Mr. RANKIN. That would be November 23?
Mr. CURRY. Yes; and I said this I don't know because that would be left
up to the men doing the interrogation. When they felt like they were
finished with him and wanted to transfer him or when Sheriff Decker
said, "We want the man."
Mr. RANKIN. Did you have anything to do with his transfer then?
Mr. CURRY. Other than to, I called Sheriff Decker on Sunday morning and
he said, I told him and I think he had talked to Fritz prior to that
time, too, and he told Fritz, he says, "Don't bring him down here until
I get some security set up for him."
So, Sunday morning I talked to Sheriff Decker.
Mr. RANKIN. Why didn't you do it at night?
Mr. CURRY. This is not customary to transfer prisoners at night.
Mr. RANKIN. Why?
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