Mr. Wade. But you had lots of things of that kind. And I thought you needed some type of, somebody—and your whole thing was wrong with this whole deal, you had no one in charge of the thing. You had the police, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Department of Justice, my Department, Waggoner Carr's department, but no one had any say to offer the rest of them.
Mr. Rankin. Tell us how that affected it. You had the jurisdiction of the crime itself.
Mr. Wade. Of the trial of the case.
Mr. Rankin. And the police department, what jurisdiction did they have?
Mr. Wade. They had the jurisdiction, the primary responsibility for the investigation of the assassination, and—they had the primary job of finding out who did it and getting the evidence. They were assisted, the Secret Service, of course, had the job of protecting the President. The FBI, they have criminal, pretty general, investigation, I am not sure, but they were in on it, they were all there, and assisting. It was a deal where nobody had any actual control over another person.
Mr. Rankin. Had the State authorities any jurisdiction or effect on the operation?
Mr. Wade. You mean the State?
Mr. Rankin. Of Texas.
Mr. Wade. They actually had none. They had no authority. The Governor has no authority in a situation like this nor the attorney general other than in a vague sort of way, as the police, I guess they had the police powers to some extent of maintaining order but you didn't need the National Guard or anything. I mean this was more dealing with a situation of information. I think this situation is true in many States, in practically all of them.
Mr. Rankin. Was that confusing, did that make it harder to try to solve the crime and handle the problems?