Mr. Rankin. Did you give any information to the press about what you had in regard to that prosecution, and the nature of the evidence?
Mr. Wade. No; not that I know of. Of course, they all saw it on television, you know. We have got in—to bring you through the whole story, I said practically nothing about this thing for about 3 weeks or a month, but we had a lawyer on the other side who came into town and every time he was met at the airport he would make statements.
Mr. Rankin. Who was that?
Mr. Wade. Mr. Melvin Belli, and he had his psychiatrist on the television, all his witnesses, said what he was going to prove and it got to a situation where I had to do a little talking in self-defense, and so we did later on have some statements more or less in answer to his. It was entirely too much trying of that in the newspapers but a situation where we couldn't let his psychiatrist go on there and prove he had been insane on the jury without at least our saying we had some evidence that he was sane.
Mr. Rankin. Did you have anything to do with the preparation of the case for trial?
Mr. Wade. Yes, to some extent. You see I had four assistants to assist me in the trial.
Mr. Rankin. Who were they?
Mr. Wade. Jim Bowie, Frank Watt, and Bill Alexander. I read most of the reports on it. I mean I had most of what I did was read things on it because my main job in the trial as we started out was for me to pick the jury, which I did, I think I have some ability along that line, and do a great deal of the cross examination and the final argument. That is what I do in the cases I participate in usually.
Mr. Rankin. Yes.
Mr. Wade. Alexander spent the 2 weeks we were picking a jury in viewing the witnesses. I never talked to any of the witnesses. After the first half a day of testimony I was very disappointed in the way the witnesses were being put on the stand; if this is of interest to you.