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. After they had gotten the armored car down there, in talking
with Captain Fritz, and here again this prisoner was his responsibility
and I don't want to be in a position of just overriding him, and I was
willing to trust his judgment, he had been doing this for, like I say,
nearly 40 years, and he said, "Chief, I would prefer not to use that
armored car, I don't know who the driver is. It is awkward to handle
and if anybody tries to do anything to us, I am afraid we would be
surrounded. I would prefer to put him in a police car with some of my
men following him, and get in and just take him right down Main Street
and slip him into the jail."
So I said, "It will be all right with me if you want to do it that way
but let's not say anything about this."
Mr. RANKIN. Now the armored car was not a Dallas police car, was it?
Mr. CURRY. No; it was not.
Mr. RANKIN. It was one you were arranging to get from----
Mr. CURRY. I believe his name was Mr. Sherrell, who was the manager of
the Armored Motor Service there in Dallas.
Mr. RANKIN. And they would furnish a driver with it?
Mr. CURRY. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. What else was done, if anything?
Mr. CURRY. We went ahead with our plans and we instructed the officers
that would be involved in this transfer they would go east on Commerce
Street, north to Elm Street, west on Elm Street to Houston Street, and
then back south on Houston to the rear entrance of the county jail.
Mr. RANKIN. How many officers would be involved in the transfer?
Mr. CURRY. In the actual transfer, I would think perhaps 15 or 18
besides the men that were stationed at the intersections downtown.
Mr. RANKIN. How far would it be from your police department to the
county jail?
Mr. CURRY. I would say 12-15 blocks.
Mr. RANKIN. Were there any other precautions you haven't described?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir; that is about all I know of, except that Captain
Fritz wanted to transfer the prisoner in his car, with some of his
detectives. This is not unusual. He has transferred many, many
prisoners, especially where there is--it is an unusual case involving
more than the ordinary routine crime, so it is not anything unusual to
transfer him, for him to transfer prisoners.
But, it was then suggested or arranged that they would put his car in a
position behind the armored car that we would bring the prisoner out,
put him in his car, and he would have two detectives in the back seat
with him, plus one driver and two or three detectives following him
immediately and there was supposed to be another car to pick up and go
with them or get into a car van with these two.
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