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. Your law says he shall be brought immediately.
Mr. CURRY. Immediately, but it has been----
Mr. RANKIN. But in interpretation you ordinarily follow a practice
of----
Mr. CURRY. During the normal course of the court's business. This was
actually unusual because this type of arraignment--because usually it
would have been later than this, but we were trying to take whatever
precautions we could to see that he was given his--we were not
violating his civil rights. That is the reason that we did arraign him
in the city hall. Ordinarily we would have taken him before a court.
Mr. RANKIN. I didn't understand you to say that the justice of the
peace told him he had a right to counsel or said anything about that.
Mr. CURRY. I don't recall whether he did or whether he did not. He read
all this to him.
Mr. RANKIN. That is, he read the complaint to him?
Mr. CURRY. The complaint, and I don't recall what all he said to him.
Mr. RANKIN. So, according to the practice in Texas at the time that
he was taken for arraignment would have been the usual practice or a
little earlier?
Mr. CURRY. A little earlier, actually.
Mr. McCLOY. Were you present at any investigation or interrogation of
Ruby?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir; I was not.
Mr. McCLOY. Did you hear any further elaboration of this charge that
Oswald made that Hosty had mistreated his wife; what was the nature of
the mistreatment?
Mr. CURRY. I was not present when this happened. This was told to me, I
think Captain Fritz told me this, and he seemed to gather that he had
more or less sort of browbeat her in interrogating her is what Fritz,
the impression that Fritz got.
Mr. McCLOY. When was that? Do you have any reason to know--Captain
Fritz will perhaps tell us about it--as to when that interrogation of
Hosty and Mrs. Oswald took place?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir.
Mr. McCLOY. You don't take normally any tape recordings of witnesses'
examinations?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir.
Mr. McCLOY. I guess that is all, except the general question I have
of Chief Curry. Do you know anything else with respect to this whole
matter that you think would be of any help to this Commission in
getting at the facts?
Mr. CURRY. Not that I know of, except to say we were extremely sorry
that, of course, this thing happened in Dallas. We thought we were
taking every normal precaution that we could take to insure the safety
of the President in cooperating with the Secret Service and all other
agencies and we felt like we had done a good job.
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