Mr. Curry. No, sir; none at all.
Mr. Dulles. It was purely a maneuver to cover an area which had been evacuated or been left uncovered because of the assassination and the reassignment of squads?
Mr. Curry. The reassignment of squads, that is right.
Mr. McCloy. Because of the withdrawal of people of the Oak Cliff area into the Houston Street area?
Mr. Curry. That is correct. So we pulled some of the squads further assigned to the area into the most central area to cover anything that might happen so they would be in position to go out or come in.
Mr. McCloy. That does clear it up.
Mr. Rankin. Will you tell us on the record what was normal procedure that you just spoke about?
Mr. Curry. Normal procedure would be when we have a great number of squads on assignment in an area, in their particular district, as squads go out of service, say they are checking out, to haul prisoners into the jails or they are on calls, it just is automatic they are instructed in school when they go to school if the adjoining squad goes out of service, doesn't stay, say he adjoins you on the east, don't go to the far west side of your district, go to the east side of your district where you could be on the west side of his district, so if something else occurs in his district you would be in a position to answer the call.
Ordinarily it is not necessary for us to, so that squads go to getting out of service, to go and rearrange squads.
In this particular instance, when he asked 81 and 78 if they were in central Oak Cliff they said yes, but they were moving there because this would be a normal thing to do, to move into an area where other squads had gone out of service.