Mr. Curry.

While I was out at Parkland Hospital.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know about what time that was, the day?

Mr. Curry.

It was on the 22d and the best I recall it was around 1 o'clock or maybe a little after 1 o'clock.

Mr. Rankin.

How did that come to your attention?

Mr. Curry.

Some of my officers came to me and said they had arrested a suspect. in the shooting of our Officer Tippit.

Mr. Rankin.

What else did they say?

Mr. Curry.

They also told me a little later, I believe, that he was a suspect also in the assassination of the President.

Mr. Rankin.

What did you do then?

Mr. Curry.

I didn't do anything at the time. I was at the hospital, and I remained at the hospital until some of the Secret Service asked me to prepare two cars that we were informed that President Kennedy had expired and we were requested to furnish two cars for President Johnson and some of his staff to return to Love Field.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you do that?

Mr. Curry.

Yes; I did.

Mr. Rankin.

What else what did you do after that?

Mr. Curry.

After the planes departed from Love Field, I was there for the inauguration of the President, and then we left the plane, and Judge Sarah Hughes and myself, and I remained at Love for some, I guess perhaps an hour.

Mr. Rankin.

By inauguration, you mean the swearing in of the President?

Mr. Curry.

That is right, sir.

Mr. Rankin.

On the plane?

Mr. Curry.

On the plane; yes.

Mr. Rankin.

And then you left Love Field?

Mr. Curry.

I talked to Mayor Cabell and his wife for a little while and after the plane left Love Field then I left Love Field.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you go with Judge Hughes or she go with you?

Mr. Curry.

No; she was in her own car.

Mr. Rankin.

I see.

Mr. Curry.

And I returned to the city hall.

Mr. Dulles.

Did I understand correctly, how long were you at Love Field after the plane of the President left?

Mr. Curry.

As I recall it was approximately an hour.

Mr. Dulles.

That is what I thought.

Mr. Curry.

We waited there until the casket bearing the President, and then the cars bearing Mrs. Kennedy arrived, and it was, I would judge an hour perhaps.

Mr. Rankin.

Then what did you do?

Mr. Curry.

I returned to my office at city hall.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you do anything about Lee Harvey Oswald at that time?

Mr. Curry.

No. As I went into the city hall it was overrun with the news media.

Mr. Rankin.

What did you do about that?

Mr. Curry.

I didn't do anything. They were jammed into the north hall of the third floor, which are the offices of the criminal investigation division. The television trucks, there were several of them around the city hall. I went into my administrative offices, I saw cables coming through the administrative assistant office and through the deputy chief of traffic through his office, and running through the hall they had a live TV set up on the third floor, and it was a bedlam of confusion.

Mr. Rankin.

Did anyone of the police department give them permission to do this?

Mr. Curry.

I noticed--well, I don't know who gave them permission because I wasn't there. When I returned they were up there.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you inquire about whether permission had been given?

Mr. Curry.

No; I didn't. We had in the past had always permitted free movement of the press around the city hall but we had never been faced with anything like this before where we had national and international news media descending upon us in this manner.