Do you know why they all assembled there instead of in some other spot?
Captain KING. No--in my thinking on it; and I don't even know why I thought it was going to be from the basement, but this was the only thing that had occurred to me. There might have been something that I heard and don't recall, but my impression w.as that it was going to be from the basement and out, and maybe because this is our normal method of transfer, our normal way we transfer. We bring them down into the jail office and out through the jail office and this might be why I was thinking this about it, but this was the way I thought about it.

Mr. Hubert.

In this second paragraph of Exhibit No. 3 you say you went to the basement because of the number of newsmen who were assembled there. Do you mean by that that that was a matter of some concern to you?
Captain KING. Actually no--not a matter particularly of concern--there was not anything happening there that I thought was unusual or anything that I was particularly concerned about. There were more newsmen going down in there than there were up on the third floor and I went down there actually to be available more than anything else.

Mr. Hubert.

In other words, the way that the letter reads--the way that sentence reads--the fact that newsmen were there was what motivated you to go there?
Captain KING. That's correct.

Mr. Hubert.

Because otherwise you had no connection with the transfer?
Captain KING. That's correct.

Mr. Hubert.

And you thought it was your duty to be there since you were the press man?
Captain KING. That's correct.

Mr. Hubert.

And where the press was, you would be?
Captain KING. That's correct.

Mr. Hubert.

I notice in the fourth paragraph you state that you talked briefly with Captain Jones, Captain Talbert, and Captain Arnett--do you recall the nature of the conversation?
Captain KING. I don't recall what was said only we spoke briefly, and I don't remember actually what any of us said. I remembered having seen them down there. I don't know whether it was anything more than a greeting or not.

Mr. Hubert.

Would you say that the conditions you have described concerning the press, that is to say, the number of them, the noise, the commotion, the cameras and so forth, continued to be as bad after Oswald was shot, as those conditions had been prior to the shooting? You see, heretofore, you have described the conditions really on the 22d and the 23d.
Captain KING. Yes.

Mr. Hubert.

And for the morning of the 24th. Then came the shooting of Oswald, and what would you have to say about the conditions with relation to the press after that incident as a comparison?
Captain KING. I don't recall any noticeable change.

Mr. Hubert.

Ruby was not ever on the third floor, as I recall it, was he?
Captain KING. I don't know--I don't remember ever having seen him on the third floor--I don't know whether he was there or not.

Mr. Hubert.

I have also shown you previously what appears to be a galley proof of the purported publication of a speech made by you before the meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and I have marked this document for identification as follows: "Dallas, Texas, May 28, 1964, Exhibit No. 4, deposition of Capt. Glen D. King," and I have signed my name in the right-hand margin.
The pages that I have shown you are marked with blue ink--this is page 7 and it is on that page that I have marked the identification data which I have just dictated.
On page 8, marked in blue ink, I have put my name in the bottom right-hand corner, the same with page 9, and the same with page 10, and the same with page 11, where your speech ends at the top of page 11, and also I have marked my name on the bottom of page 17, because there is a comment by you there on that page, and the same with pages 18, 19, and 20.

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