Mr. Wade. No, sir; Mr. Decker says they have a good suspect. He said that sometime around 3 o'clock. You see, I didn't have the benefit of all that was on the air. I didn't even know Oswald had been arrested at this time. As a matter of fact, I didn't know it at 5 o'clock when I left the hospital.
When I left the hospital, I went home, watched television a while, had dinner, and a couple, some friends of ours came over there. They were going to Austin with us on the bus, and we had dinner and started out somewhere but I said we had better go by the police station.
At that time they kept announcing they had Oswald or I believe they named a name.
Mr. Rankin. Had you learned about the Tippit murder yet?
Mr. Wade. Yes, sir; of course, it had been on the air that Tippit had been killed.
I went by the Dallas police, just to let us see what was kind of going on.
Mr. Rankin. Was that unusual for you to do that?
Mr. Wade. It was unusual because I hadn't been in the Dallas Police Department, I won't be there on the average of once a year actually, I mean on anything. I went by there and I went to Chief Curry's office.
Mr. Rankin. How did you happen to do that this time?
Mr. Wade. Of course, this is not really, this was not an ordinary case, this was a little bit different, and I mostly wanted to know how he was coming along on the investigation is the main reason I went by.