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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XII - Page 41« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Chief Jesse E. Curry)

Mr. Hubert.
of Chief J. E. Curry," and I am signing my name on that, and on the second page I am placing my initials.
With respect to the second document, it seems to be a copy of an interview of you made by FBI Agent Leo Robertson on December 10, 1963, and I am marking on the margin of the first page, as follows: "Dallas, Tex. April 15, 1964, Exhibit 5314, deposition of Chief J. E. Curry," and I am signing my name at the bottom of that page, and since the document has a second page, I am placing my initials at the bottom of the second page.
Now, I am going to ask you if you would mind signing your name where my name appears and your initials where my initials are, so that the record will show we both are talking about the same document?
Mr. CURRY, Okay.
(Signed document as requested by Counsel Hubert.)
Mr. Hubert.
Then I am going to ask you whether you have any comments to make about those two documents? Would you initial the second page, too?
Mr. Curry.
Yes; I will.
(Witness Curry initialed instruments as requested by Counsel Hubert.)
Mr. Hubert.
Now, Chief, have you had an opportunity to read both of those documents?
Mr. Curry.
Yes; I looked them over.
Mr. Hubert.
Do they represent the truth so far as you know of the interviews that they purport to cover?

Now, if you have any comments to make or deletions or modifications or changes, or if you find that those documents are incorrect, I would like for you to say so, because what we will have to do is to get into the record what is correct and not what is not correct.
Mr. Curry.
[Examining instruments as referred to.] Yes, sir.
Mr. Hubert.
Are they correct, sir? Do you have any comments or deletions?
Mr. Curry.
No; I don't have any comments. As far as I know--as far as I can recall, this is about what happened.
Mr. Hubert.
Now, have you ever been interviewed by any member of the Commission's staff prior to this time?
Mr. Curry.
No, sir; I had a little conversation with you over in my office.
Mr. Hubert.
That was about 2 weeks ago when I was present in Dallas?
Mr. Curry.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
Was there anything that occurred during that conversation that has not been covered here?
Mr. Curry.
Not to my knowledge.
Mr. Hubert.
Now, finally, is there anything at all you would like to make a matter of record concerning this whole thing? You are at liberty to say anything you want to say.
Mr. Curry.
No; the only thing I would like to say is that I deeply regret the incidents that occurred and I feel like we did everything that could be expected of us as a police department to set up the security of the President and to cooperate with all agencies that had a responsibility in this matter, that we certainly would have liked for Oswald to have remained alive and faced trial.
According to the information that was given to me by the homicide bureau, we had developed a very good case on him and would have been able to, I'm sure, would have been able to convict him in a court of law. Jack Ruby--I do not know, I did not know. It has been intimated that a great many of the Dallas police officers did know him, but from what I've been able to find out, there were some police officers who knew him, but most of them knew him because of the fact they had conducted police business with him at his place of business There were a few, perhaps, that knew him and had gone to his place of business for social activities, but it was certainly not--he is not known by the majority of the police department.
Mr. Hubert.
Chief, perhaps you would like to comment on two things--one, is that, as you know, there has been some talk or rumor, of course, that the police department cooperated, or some members of it, with Ruby for an opportunity for Ruby to shoot Oswald.
Have you looked into that, and if you have, would you give us your observations about it?
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