Mr. HUBERT. What I am getting at--what security measures were taken, if you know, with respect to who was in that crowd of newsmen of the people in the assembly room? Mr. CURRY. I don't know, other than on the third floor. I know that there was some police reservists and a police sergeant who was screening people who came up on the third floor. Mr. HUBERT. Now, how would they screen them? Mr. CURRY. As they got off of the elevator, I would observe that they would check them, apparently asking for identification. Mr. HUBERT. The elevator would be the only way to get up there? Mr. CURRY. The stairway, they could get up the stairway. The officers were so located that had someone come up the stairway they would have seen them too. Mr. HUBERT. In other words, the officers checking the elevator could also check the staircase? Mr. CURRY. That's right. Mr. HUBERT. Do you know whether any instructions had been given to those officers? Mr. CURRY. I don't know of my knowledge, but I observed them checking the people who came in. Mr. HUBERT. Whose responsibility would it have been to post those officers for the purpose of checking there? Mr. CURRY. Usually the captain on duty in that building--that would have been Captain Talbert, I believe, but it could have been someone else. Had they observed the need for it, they could have issued orders to get someone else. Mr. HUBERT. Obviously, someone must have posted two men there? Mr. CURRY. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Would you say you have in the department any standard operative procedures to cover a situation like that? Mr. CURRY. Not exactly this type incident. Mr. HUBERT. So, in any case, you observed that that was a security check going on? Mr. CURRY. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Is the same thing approximately true about the group that was in the assembly room when Oswald was brought down? Mr. CURRY. Well, now, I don't know that they were all checked as they went into the assembly room. Mr. HUBERT. Did you give any instructions about the security of Oswald there? Mr. CURRY. No; I just told them to keep the newsmen--and I told the newsmen they would have to stay back inside the confines of the room and not approach the prisoner. Mr. HUBERT. Let me put it this way--generally speaking, did you give any specific instructions regarding the security of Oswald, during that period we are talking about? Mr. CURRY. No, not this period--no. Mr. HUBERT. Do you know what system of checking for identification was being used by the officers on the third floor guarding the elevator and staircase? Mr. CURRY. I don't know of my own knowledge. I could see them checking the people to see whether they were up to do police business or whether they were newsmen trying to cover the incident. We were carrying on the normal business we would conduct, and this would bring a great many people to the third floor, relatives of prisoners, complainants, various people that would come to the other bureaus.