Representative Ford. Will you call the attention of the Commission to what you find out, whether it should or should not be in the record?
Mr. Smith. Yes, I will. May I tell Mr. Stern?
Representative Ford. Surely.
Mr. Stern. Were you aware of a suggestion that a vehicle with representatives of the Dallas homicide squad be in the motorcade, I believes behind the Vice President's car, a decision that was changed just before November 22?
Can you tell us anything about that?
Mr. Lawson. I believe I recall some mention of them asking—I don't remember if they asked if there should be a car or not but I believe there was some mention that there be a car, that they could have a car in the back there. This was not usual procedure. In New York it is, and on foreign trips it is.
Mr. Dulles. I understood that car was to be between the lead car I think and the President's car, was it not, or is it between—no, between the lead car and the President's car.
Mr. Stern. I haven't yet seen the transcript of yesterday's session, sir, and I am not quite sure.
Representative Ford. My recollection is that it was to follow the President's car, either behind the followup car or behind the Vice President's car.
Mr. Dulles. We can check that. It is somewhere in there. I have a feeling it was ahead of the President's car but I may be wrong.