(Testimony of Henry Wade)
Mr. Wade.
Ruby and Oswald were in an adjoining booth. There is lots of other people, I think your master of ceremonies, they had him on television and said he had seen them there but later on said he hadn't when they got to interviewing him. But my own personal knowledge that you are all interested in was that one man who told me that.
Mr. Rankin.
Was there anyone either from the State or Federal Government that urged you not to state a crime of international conspiracy if you found one was present?
Mr. Wade.
No; not in that light. It is like I mentioned to you what Mr. Carr and Mr. Sanders both inquired, said they had heard on the radio about this or talked with someone in Washington about it, and I told them right off that whether it was so or not doesn't make any difference. It wouldn't be alleged. I mean if I had known he was a Communist I wouldn't have alleged it. I mean, suppose I knew he was a Communist, and signed a statement he was a Communist. That was a time when the press blew up when they had nothing else to talk about at the time, actually.
The answer to your question is "No."
Mr. Rankin.
Was any statement made by you as to whether or not there was any international conspiracy, conspiracy with Oswald about the assassination?
Mr. Wade.
No, sir; I don't think there was. I think in one of those interviews you will find that I said they found some literature or something from the Fair Play for Cuba at his home, something to that effect. If I did anything, that was all that was said, in one of those interviews.
Mr. Rankin.
Did anybody ask you to say anything one way or another about that?
Mr. Wade.
If they did I don't remember it. I am sure they asked that, but I am talking about, I mean in all these interviews, that was the thing where they were trying to prove a connection or something, you know, and I told them I knew nothing about it.
Mr. Rankin.
But no officials asked you to say anything about it publicly or otherwise?
Mr. Wade.
No, sir; not that I recall.
Mr. Rankin.
Did anybody ask you at any time not to say that a foreign government was involved if you found it was or anything about that?
Mr. Wade.
Your FBI man may have. I don't know. I talked to him two or three times. I wish I could think of his name because I don't think I ever met him. He was an inspector out of Washington.
Mr. Dulles.
He is not our FBI man, he is the FBI. We are an independent commission.
Mr. Wade.
I see. But he had talked with me something, I think his conversation, as I recall, largely dealt with the giving out of information. He was concerned about it and so was I, and where we had the longest conversation was, I will run through Sunday, and get me up to it real fast because I talked to him Sunday night. We haven't covered one of my television interviews.
After I went down to the police station and I will take this real fast if it is all right with you all, they told me that Oswald had been shot and I was there in the Chief's office when he died, when Oswald died and the Chief says I have got to go out here and announce it.
So as he went out for a press conference, I went down the back door, went home and went to bed because I was tired and disappointed actually because we got even interested in trying Oswald, and I didn't mean to have anything else further to say.
I woke up about 5 o'clock and a national commentator was giving the Dallas police hell, me hell, and just about everybody hell, and saying that I had said that the case, there would be nothing further on the case, it would be closed, in which I had never even had a television interview, I don't know where they got it.
Somebody might have said that. I don't know but it wasn't me because I hadn't talked to anybody.
And then I went out to dinner.and got to thinking, I said, well now, the Dallas police did have a breakdown in security here, and they are taking a beating and
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