Mr. Curry. There were made, some of them, in the office down in Dallas, they were in a tremendous hurry to get all of these items to the laboratory here in Washington, and our only concern was this, that if this case is tried in Dallas, we need the evidence to be presented here in a court in Dallas and we were a little bit apprehensive about it if it gets to Washington will it be available to us when we need it. If we need somebody to identify, attempt to identify the gun or other items will it be here for them to see?
And that was our only concern.
We got several calls insisting we send this, and nobody would tell me exactly who it was that was insisting, "just say I got a call from Washington, and they wanted this evidence up there," insinuated it was someone in high authority that was requesting this, and we finally agreed as a matter of trying to cooperate with them, actually.
Mr. Dulles. Have you any more questions?
Mr. McCloy. Not at this stage.
Mr. Rankin. Shall we convene at 2?
Mr. Dulles. Mr. Murray, do you have any?
Mr. Murray. No, thank you.
(Whereupon, at 12:45 p.m., the President's Commission recessed.)