Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. HUBERT. That would have been before you called Decker?
Chief CURRY. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. I think at that time you or perhaps Chief Batchelor ordered
certain cameras to be removed that were in the hallway. Do you recall
that?
Chief CURRY. I told Chief Batchelor or Stevenson or someone that those
cameras will have to be moved.
Mr. HUBERT. They were in the hallway leading from the jail office down
into the basement?
Chief CURRY. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you direct where they should be moved to?
Chief CURRY. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Where was that?
Chief CURRY. Well, if you are familiar with the basement, there is a
driveway entering from Main Street. You would be traveling south. As
you near the end of the ramp where you would make a turn to the left
and go east to go into the parking area, there are some guardrails that
would protect people from stepping off of the ramp into the basement.
Mr. HUBERT. They separate the ramp from the basement?
Chief CURRY. From the parking area; yes, sir, and I instructed, I
believe it was Lieutenant Wiggins, who was standing there, to have a
patrol car and a patrol wagon, which might be referred to as a paddy
wagon, moved from the first two spaces, and have the television cameras
set up there. If they, the news media, wanted to set them up, they
would have to be set up there.
Mr. HUBERT. At that time it had not been decided whether Oswald would
be transferred by armored car or by your police car, or for that
matter, by the sheriff?
Chief CURRY. That’s correct.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember whether anyone gave any orders to the
effect that press media and all authorized persons there should be kept
on the east side of the rail that you just described, and not in the
ramp area?
Chief CURRY. That’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. That order was given, do you remember?
Chief CURRY. At the time, I instructed that all the press would be
behind the guardrail--all the news media.
Mr. HUBERT. Was any request made by anybody that they should be allowed
to stand on the west side of the rail?
Chief CURRY. Not to me.
Mr. HUBERT. Was it your thought all the way through that they were
being kept on the other side?
Chief CURRY. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, as I understand it, of course, the plans were
formulated by yourself and Batchelor and perhaps Stevenson, and after
you learned that Sheriff Decker was agreeable to your bringing the
prisoner over, or it was agreed that you would, the plan of carrying
him there by armored truck was first discussed, and later that was
changed. That was the plan. Who was in charge of actually executing the
plan?
Chief CURRY. I don’t suppose any one particular man would have been
charged with the responsibility of the entire movement.
Chief Stevenson and Chief Batchelor and Chief Lumpkin, all of these
men went into the basement immediately prior to the transfer, and each
would have had responsibility to correct anything that was amiss.
Mr. HUBERT. All were aware of the plan?
Chief CURRY. Yes.
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