Mr. Rankin. Going to the Trade Mart building would be assumed that you would go by the Texas Depository Building?
Mr. Curry. If we went on Stemmons Expressway and that is the way they wanted to go. The only other way we could have gone. We could have continued down Main Street passed through the underpass about a block past there to Industrial Boulevard and then we would have gone Industrial Boulevard and made an entrance from the Trade Mart, from the north side of the Trade Mart there. But it was decided with the Secret Service people that we would go Main to Houston, Houston to Elm, Elm through to triple underpass onto the expressway and the expressway to the Trade Mart where they would come off and had parking facilities reserved and had a security setup.
Mr. Rankin. Will you describe the cars of the——
Mr. McCloy. Just before that, how far before November 22 was that route decided on?
Mr. Curry. Approximately 2 days or so, I believe. That is in this chronological record.
Mr. Dulles. When was this route published?
Mr. McCloy. That route was published.
Mr. Curry. It was published perhaps 2 days before, a day or two before.
Mr. Rankin. Is the Elm Street route a shorter route than to go by Industrial Boulevard?
Mr. Curry. It's a more scenic route. The Stemmons Expressway was and it was easier to travel, traffic is easier to control on it, it is a 10-lane highway, and the Industrial Highway is heavily traveled by commercial vehicles and goes through a commercial section of the industrial area. And there was a more scenic route and traffic was more—a freer flow of traffic anyway.