Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. SORRELS. No; nothing about the route. The basement is used by the
police generally. They have a passageway which comes from Main Street
down into the basement, and then the exit continues on out to Commerce
Street, and the police cars that bring prisoners in use the basement.
In other words, they drive the car right down to the basement, and the
actual receiving office, the receiving office for the jail is on the
basement floor.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you recall ever having spoken to either Curry or some
other member of the police department about the possibility of moving
Oswald in a way other than that which was planned?
Mr. SORRELS. When I heard that they were supposed to take him out at
10 o’clock--that was the announcement and so forth on the radio and in
the papers--I remarked to Captain Fritz that if I were he, I would not
remove Oswald from the city hall or city jail to the county jail at
an announced time; that I would take him out at 3 or 4 o’clock in the
morning when there was no one around.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know when you told that to Fritz?
Mr. SORRELS. That was on the Sunday morning, before he was removed.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you tell that to any other person?
Mr. SORRELS. No.
Mr. HUBERT. Was any other person present when you told that to Fritz?
Mr. SORRELS. No; not that I recall.
Mr. HUBERT. What caused you to give that advice to Captain Fritz?
Mr. SORRELS. The importance of the prisoner, to my mind, was such that
in order to remove the opportunity for some crackpot or anyone who
might feel inclined to try to kill the prisoner, if the removal was
made more or less unannounced or in secret, that those opportunities
would have been at least lessened to a great degree.
Captain Fritz said that Chief Curry did not want to--let’s reverse that
just a bit--that Chief Curry wanted to go along with the press and not
try to put anything over on them; or words to that effect.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you gather from what Fritz told you that the reason why
your suggestion was not acceptable was that Fritz at least thought that
captain--that Chief Curry did not want to break his word, as it were,
to the press?
Mr. SORRELS. I didn’t consider it so much as breaking his word as I
would that he did not want to tell them one thing, or in other words,
move him out without the press being aware of the fact--let’s put it
that way. That was my impression.
Mr. HUBERT. What time was it, about, do you know, that you made that
suggestion?
Mr. SORRELS. That was pretty close to 11:15 in the morning, just a
short time before they got ready to move him.
Mr. HUBERT. You do not know, do you, whether he conveyed your thought
to Chief Curry?
Mr. SORRELS. No; I do not. I doubt that he did, because Chief Curry had
left Fritz’ office at that time, as I recall it.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember about what time it was when the Oswald move
began from Fritz’ office?
Mr. SORRELS. It was shortly after 11:15 in the morning, as I recall it.
In other words----
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