Does that answer some of the questions?
(At this point, Senator Cooper returned to the hearing room.)
Mr. Rankin. Which route did you follow in regard to the Oswald case?
Mr. Wade. The same route. I accepted the complaint on him in the homicide department, and gave it to David Johnston, the justice of the peace who was there incidentally, or there in the homicide department.
But I didn't actually type it up. I don't know who actually typed it up, somebody typed it up, but we file about a 100 a year, murders "did with malice aforethought."
It was a straight murder indictment, murder with malice charge, and that was the procedure we followed in the Oswald case.
Mr. Rankin. Why did you not include in that complaint a charge of an international conspiracy?
Mr. Wade. Well, it is just like I said, it is surplusage to begin with. You don't need it. If you allege it you have to prove it. The U.S. attorney and the attorney general had called me and said that if it wasn't absolutely necessary they thought it shouldn't be done, and—
Mr. Rankin. By the "attorney general" who do you mean?
Mr. Wade. Mr. Carr. And actually it is never done. I mean, you see that got clear, apparently you had the press writing that up, radio or whoever was saying that was—had no idea about what murder was.