Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) — John Shaqi
Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
I went on up to the office and Chief Batchelor and Chief Stevenson, I
think, remained in the basement a while and Captain Talbert was down
there.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you delegate to any specific person the security of
Oswald?
Mr. CURRY. No, sir; I could see that he was being taken care of by the
captain on duty, Captain Talbert, and Lieutenant Wiggins was assisting
in it, so I didn't see any need to particularly call some officer
over there and say, "Look, you are in charge of this security in this
basement." It was being taken care of, I could see.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, for the record, will you tell us what you saw that
satisfied you that it was being taken care of?
Mr. CURRY. Officers were being stationed at the strategic points in
the basement to screen people coming in, and they were moving out the
vehicles as I asked them to, so I went on upstairs and I told Chief
Batchelor and Chief Stevenson that we should clean out everything in
the basement and screen everything that came back in.
Mr. HUBERT. When you ordered everything to be "screened" did you give
any specific instructions?
Mr. CURRY. No; I didn't
Mr. HUBERT. Or does that term have any significance in police work?
Mr. CURRY. Well, it means to satisfy yourself that they were people who
had a legitimate reason to be there when you screen them.
Mr. HUBERT. In other words, within the organization of the police
department, the word "screening" is understood so that you were
satisfied that there would not be people there who were not supposed to
be there?
Mr. CURRY. Any unauthorized people.
Mr. HUBERT. Just one more point on that--under the system, who would be
considered as unauthorized persons?
Mr. CURRY. I think I specifically stated that only newspaper reporters
or police officers would be allowed in the basement.
Mr. HUBERT. Only the news media?
Mr. CURRY. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Television people--would be included, too?
Mr. CURRY. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Was there any discussion of the route to be taken?
Mr. CURRY. Not at that time.
Mr. HUBERT. All right; let's go ahead.
Mr. CURRY. Then, I went on upstairs and a little while later I went
to Fritz' office and they were interrogating him--they--there were
several people in there, some I recognized as FBI agents, some were
Secret Service agents, some were Dallas detectives, and Captain Fritz
was talking to Oswald at the time, I believe, and I stood around a few
moments and when there was a lull in the interrogation, I asked Captain
Fritz if he was about ready to transfer Oswald and he said, "Well, no;
they were still talking to him," so I left the room.
Mr. HUBERT. That was about what time?
Mr. CURRY. As I recall, it was probably 10:30, but I didn't care when
they transferred him at all. It didn't make any difference to me. The
arrangements had been made to transfer him and then when it was brought
to----
Mr. HUBERT. What arrangements had been made?
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