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. Well, in talking with Captain Fritz, and here again the
prisoner was his, and when some of my captains, I believe it was
perhaps Lieutenant Swain, it is in the record somewhere said something
about, "Do you think we ought to move him at night?"
And Captain Fritz was not in favor of moving him at night because he
said, "If anything does occur you can't see, anybody can immediately
get out of sight, and if anything is going to happen we want to know
where we can see and see what is happening."
Mr. RANKIN. Were you fearful something might happen?
Mr. CURRY. I didn't know. I thought it could happen because of a
feeling of a great number of people. But I certainly didn't think
anything to happen in city hall. I thought that if anything did happen
to him it would probably be en route from the city jail to the county
jail.
Mr. RANKIN. What precautions did you take?
Mr. CURRY. The precautions that were taken, when I came in on Sunday
morning, now Captain Fritz, I had talked to him on Saturday night or
Saturday evening anyway, and he said, he thought he would be ready
to transfer him by 10 o'clock the next morning, that would be Sunday
morning.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you tell that to the media?
Mr. CURRY. I told them at some time after that. Several of them asked
me when are you going to transfer him, and I said, I don't know.
They said, "Are you going to transfer him tonight," and I said, "No, we
are not going to transfer him tonight." I said, "We are tired. We are
going home and get some rest."
Something was said about well, we are tired, too. When should we come
back, and I think that this is recorded in some of the tape recording,
that I told them if you are back here by 10 o'clock in the morning, I
don't think that you would miss anything you want to see.
Mr. RANKIN. What did you do then about precautions?
Mr. CURRY. The next morning when I came in, that would be about 8:30,
8:45, I think, parked in the basement of city hall, I started up to
the elevator and I noticed they had moved some cameras into a hallway
down in the basement and I told Lieutenant Wiggins who is in the jail
office, I said, "These things will have to be moved out of here, and
I also told Chief Batchelor, and Chief Stevenson, Assistant Chief
Batchelor, and Assistant Chief in Charge of Investigations Stevenson
who came down in the basement at the time.
Mr. RANKIN. Those were TV cameras?
Mr. CURRY. That was in the lobby or in near the lobby of the jail
office. I told them they were--would have to move those out of there.
This was also in the parking area, there was a ramp come down from Main
Street and goes out on Commerce Street, and then there is a parking
area east of this.
I told Lieutenant Wiggins who was there, I said, "Now, move these squad
cars," there was a transfer car there and a squad car, "move these cars
out of this area and if the news media wants down here put them over
behind these railings, back over in the basement here."
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