Mr. Wade. Yes, sir; and in the building, I am not sure who they were, they had two court reporters there taking statements.
Mr. Rankin. Did they tell you anything about a suspect at that point?
Mr. Wade. The Sheriff told me, he said, "Don't say nothing about it, but they have got a good suspect," talking about the Dallas Police.
He didn't have him there. John Connally, you know, was shot also—and he was, he used to be a roommate of mine in the Navy and we were good friends, and are now—and the first thing I did then was went out to the hospital to see how he was getting along.
I must have stayed out there until about 5 o'clock, and in case you all don't know or understand one thing, it has never been my policy to make any investigations out of my office of murders or anything else for that matter. We leave that entirely to the police agency.
Mr. Rankin. Do you have a reason for that?
Mr. Wade. That is the way it is set up down there. We have more than we can do actually in trying the cases. The only time we investigate them is after they are filed on, indicted, and then we have investigators who get them ready for trial and then lawyers.
Mr. Dulles. Have you any personnel for that?
Mr. Wade. No, sir; I have in my office 11 investigators but that is just 1 for each court, and they primarily, or at least about all they do is line up the witnesses for trial and help with jury picking and things of that kind.
Mr. Rankin. At this point that you are describing, had you learned of any arrest?