Jesse E. Curry

I ask you those questions in a general way, we will go back to certain parts of that but I would like to proceed at this time in view of the fact that the Chief Justice and possibly other members of the Commission who will come may not be able to be here all the time that you are being examined and I would like to get to certain crucial matters if I may.
When did you learn of the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald?

While I was out at Parkland Hospital.

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

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

How did that come to your attention?

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

What else did they say?

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

What did you do then?

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.

Did you do that?

Yes; I did.

What else what did you do after that?

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.

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

That is right, sir.

On the plane?

On the plane; yes.

And then you left Love Field?

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

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

No; she was in her own car.

I see.