Mr. HUBERT. Can you tell me why it was that the Commerce Street exit was chosen to put the armored car in and for the cars carrying Oswald to leave in, rather than the Main Street exit? Mr. CURRY. Because Commerce Street is one way east and all the traffic comes in on Main Street. Mr. HUBERT. Main Street is two-way traffic? Mr. CURRY. It is two-way traffic and the exit is one way east, so the vehicles were placed there. Mr. HUBERT. As a matter of geographical fact, except for the fact that you would have been going the wrong way, up the Main Street ramp and that you had two-way traffic on Main Street, the actual closest route would have been to go up the Main Street ramp, turn left up Main Street and go down? Mr. CURRY. Yes; it would. It would have been about three or four blocks closer, because when we came out of Commerce you had to go east to the second block and make a turn one block and make a turn back west. Mr. HUBERT. Chief, have you any comment to make as to why the longer route instead of the shorter route was taken? Mr. CURRY. Well, just because ordinarily we don't violate traffic rules and regulations in the transfer of prisoners and we thought this was the normal route that should be taken and that's the reason it was set up that way. Mr. HUBERT. The original decision, as I remember it, was to go through the Commerce Street exit and then turn left up to North Central? Mr. CURRY. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. And then turn left again and go to Elm and then go on down to the county jail? Mr. CURRY. When I went back up into the homicide office and told Fritz about our plans of transferring the prisoner, he was not particularly pleased with the idea of putting the prisoner in the armored car. Mr. HUBERT. Did he say why? Mr. CURRY. He said if someone tried to take our prisoner, he felt like we ought to be able to maneuver and he felt that this would be too awkward in in this heavy armored car and he preferred that the prisoner be transferred in a regular police car with detectives. Mr. HUBERT. Was a policeman to drive the armored car? Mr. CURRY. No; not the armored car. Mr. HUBERT. Is that a factor, too--I suppose--it wouldn't be a member of the police force under your control driving that car? Mr. CURRY. No; but he felt like--Fritz said if anyone tried to take our prisoner we should be in a position to be able to cut out of the caravan or to take off or do whatever was necessary to protect our prisoner.