Mr. HUBERT. To use the armored truck which had meanwhile pulled up as a decoy and carried out as you described a few moments ago? Chief CURRY. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. I think there has been some testimony by other people prior that an attempt had been made to reach you early Sunday morning but that the line was reported busy. Chief CURRY. The FBI asked me about that a few days ago, and I recall that the squad that came out, or that they actually called me and said they had been trying to get me and the squad was on the way out there; and discussing this with my wife, she said that she had taken the phone off the hook sometime during the night, and that the telephone company had made some kind of noise over the phone that woke her up and told her that something was wrong with the line, and the phone was off the hook, and she replaced it on the hook. But when I was talking to the FBI Agent Vince Drain, about this, I didn’t remember just what was wrong with the telephone. At the time, I had been up for quite awhile, and it was not my instructions to her to take it off the hook. She took it off sometime on her own initiative, she said, so we could get some sleep. That was the trouble with the phone. Mr. HUBERT. Chief, is it possible to comment upon this? To what extent was the failure of security caused by the presence of news media in the basement? Chief CURRY. Well, in my opinion, it afforded some concealment for Ruby after he entered the basement, the presence of these news media people. Mr. HUBERT. You mean by that, that it was difficult to distinguish him from news people? Chief CURRY. Yes; looking back now, I can see that, had they all been excluded, that he would have immediately been seen as an unauthorized person in the basement, and that some action would have been taken to remove him. Mr. HUBERT. Was any consideration given to the action of the single individual in the security precautions discussed? Chief CURRY. Was what? Mr. HUBERT. Was any consideration given to the possible action of a single man in setting up the security measures that you did, as opposed to mob action, as I understand it? Chief CURRY. Oh, no. Mr. HUBERT. Your security was really directed toward mob action more than to a single-man action? Chief CURRY. That’s right. We felt that if an attempt was made on him, that it would be made by a group of people. Some of the threats that had been made during the night was, “this is a group of one hundred and we will take the prisoner before you get him to the county jail,” so we really expected trouble, if we had trouble, from a group of people and not an individual. Mr. HUBERT. Is it fair to state then that there was not any consideration given to the probability of a one-man action? Chief CURRY. It was not discussed at all, that I know of, in our discussions of security. It was based on the fact that we thought a group of people might try to take action.