Mr. Wade.

worse since all television networks were on the assassination all---24 hours, I mean all day. And there was no central thing from---there was no central person who had any control of handling the thing that information was given out. You see they interviewed some of your patrolmen who were giving out evidence, you know, some of your foot patrolmen on the corner, they were interviewing anybody.

Mr. Rankin.

Would it help or hinder the handling of such a crime of the killing of the President if it was a Federal crime, in your opinion?

Mr. Wade.

Well, offhand, I think probably it would, but----

Mr. Rankin.

It would help?

Mr. Wade.

I think it would help, but you are going to have the same situation. I am thinking if you had, if it is a Federal crime, for instance, it is still murder in Texas. If Captain Fritz and the Dallas police had arrested this man, the FBI wouldn't have had him. I don't care if it was a Federal crime. We have bank robberies where there is joint jurisdiction. The one that gets him, if it is the State police or the city police gets them, they file with me and if the FBI gets them they file with the Federal.

Mr. Rankin.

You need more control over the police investigation in order to carry out your duties, is that----

Mr. Wade.

Of Course; my idea if you had it to do over, it is easy to do that, but I think you need someone where all the information is channeled through one person. If anything is given out and getting an intelligent person, not just a police officer, you know. Now, your city manager of Dallas is a newspaper man, Elgin Crull, he would have been an ideal person and he was there but I don't think he ever said anything in any way. He was there in the middle of all that thing.

Mr. Rankin.

Is the lawyer that you referred to in answer to Senator Cooper's questions Carroll Jarnegan?

Mr. Wade.

Carroll Jarnegan is his name; yes, sir. Let me mention another thing for the record here, I don't know whether it is mentioned. Saturday, most of my day was spent in talking to Dean R. G. Storey, and the dean of the Harvard Law School, raising, wondering what the situation was with reference to attorneys for Oswald.

Mr. Rankin.

What Saturday are you talking about?

Mr. Wade.

Saturday the 23d, 1963; November 23. I told them that, all of them, we had calls from various people and most of them was from people here in the East calling lawyers there in Dallas rather than me, and them calling me.

Mr. Rankin.

What were they saying to you about that?

Mr. Wade.

Well, they were very upset, one, in looking at American justice where the man didn't have an attorney, as apparently, and two, that too much information was being given to the press too, by the police and by me. some of them had said, and that is what prompted me probably to talk to Chief Curry about the thing, because I had received some of those calls.
I told them they ought to appoint the president of the bar association and the president of the Criminal Bar Association to represent him.

Mr. Rankin.

Who did you tell that to?

Mr. Wade.

Told that to Mr. Paul Carrington and also to Mr. Storey, I believe. I believe they are the two that discussed it more at length with me.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know whether anything was done about that?

Mr. Wade.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

What?

Mr. Wade.

They got ahold of Louis Nichols who is the president of the Dallas Bar Association. They got ahold of the president of the Criminal Bar Association, but they had started a Tippit fund in the meantime, and practically every lawyer was scared they were going to be appointed, you know, and they had gone and subscribed to that fund so they were having much trouble getting a lawyer appointed.
Now, I must go a little further and tell you that under Texas law that is an improper time to appoint them. The only one who can actually appoint him is the judge after indictment under the Texas law, no one else has really authority.
Louis Nichols, I talked to him, the president of the bar, and he was trying