Representative Ford. When did this conversation take place?
Mr. Brian. The date I don't have any idea. Probably 2 or 3 weeks, I will tell you——
Mr. Dulles. 2 or 3 weeks what? After November 22?
Mr. Brian. No, sir; before the date I wrote the report, because I messed around there for another couple of weeks and then I walked in the office one day and he said, "Chief Curry wants it today," and I said, "All right, I will write it," and I sat down and wrote it, and I believe the next day or the day after that he brought it, came up here, and all this come out in the paper about making a statement and me backing the statement up in Dallas, I don't know whether it came up here or not.
Representative Ford. Who prompted this conversation that you have been describing?
Mr. Brian. In our office that day?
Representative Ford. Yes.
Mr. Brian. I am trying to think what brought it on. Somebody, there was a statement in the paper or something that said that—anyway, somewhere down the line it came out, it said it wasn't right what Lieutenant Revill had said.
And I said, "I know it is right, I was standing there," and that was about the extent of that.
And then he said, "Well, I will need"—he talked to Chief Curry, I guess, and they decided they needed a report from me on it, and then I finally wrote the report and he brought it up here. I guess it was just in the course of a conversation more than anything. I don't think anybody prompted it, really.