Mr. Curry. I don't recall giving any interviews to newspapers.
Mr. Rankin. Any news releases?
Mr. Curry. Not that I recall.
Mr. Dulles. Do you recall having told them that you had sent a radio order out to surround the book depository?
Mr. Curry. I didn't do that, sir. That was one of my inspectors, I believe that gave that order. I was riding in the Presidential parade and approximately a hundred feet, I guess, ahead of the President's car, and when we heard this first report, I couldn't tell exactly where it was coming from.
Representative Ford. What report are you talking about now?
Mr. Curry. A sharp report as a firecracker or as it was it was the report of this rifle.
We were just approaching an underpass, and there were some people around on each side of the underpass, up in the railroad yards, and I thought at first that perhaps this was a railroad torpedo, it was a sharp crack.
Inspector—no, it wasn't Inspector, it was Lawson of the Secret Service and Mr. Sorrels of the Dallas office of the Secret Service, and Sheriff Bill Decker and myself were in this car.
Mr. Dulles. I may be anticipating.