The next morning I got a call and said it would be announced at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Well, immediately after that I called Chief Curry and he met me at the hospital with some of his key men, and the arrangements were set up in a matter of minutes, you might say, arrangements for the street to be blocked by the hospital, for sufficient detectives and men to be around the area, in various places in the hospital, and arrangements were made to have the police cars to accompany us from the airport down there.
I consider that our relationship with the local enforcement agencies, not only in the Dallas area, but throughout Texas, is as good as it can be any place in the country.
Mr. Stern. On the occasion of President Kennedy's visit, they supplied all the manpower you felt was necessary?
Mr. Sorrels. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stern. Were all the police that had various functions along the motorcade route full-time policemen, Mr. Sorrels?
Mr. Sorrels. There may have been, and probably was, some auxiliary police which may have been along the route that the parade traveled on. I am not sure about that.
They do have reserves that they call in. But those reserves, they are not armed—they are in uniform, but they are not armed.
And my records do not show that there were auxiliary police there. But I do know that they use them on occasion.
Mr. Stern. Mr. Smith, if you have any questions on this aspect of our interview, please feel free to ask them, because I am going to turn now to the actual events of the day. I believe that the other advance preparations are covered adequately for our purposes in Mr. Sorrel's memorandum, which I am about to introduce.