Mr. Hubert. Did you hear of any plans made as to the actual route that would be followed in transporting Oswald?
Mr. Sorrels. Not before Oswald was shot.
Mr. Hubert. Do you know why, from anything you knew then, or have learned since, the cameramen and so forth were all congregated in the basement area?
Mr. Sorrels. Would you read that question again?
Mr. Hubert. What I am trying to get at is this: You testified a moment ago that when you came in you saw all the press people with their cameras and so forth in the basement area.
Mr. Sorrels. Not all of them. I said I saw some down there.
Mr. Hubert. Which would indicate that they either had guessed or had somehow become aware that—that would indicate that they either had guessed or had somehow become aware that that would be a point on the route to be taken at which they could get pictures. And I was wondering if you had heard anything prior to that time about the route, or had you heard that these people had been informed of the route?
Mr. Sorrels. No; nothing about the route. The basement is used by the police generally. They have a passageway which comes from Main Street down into the basement, and then the exit continues on out to Commerce Street, and the police cars that bring prisoners in use the basement. In other words, they drive the car right down to the basement, and the actual receiving office, the receiving office for the jail is on the basement floor.
Mr. Hubert. Do you recall ever having spoken to either Curry or some other member of the police department about the possibility of moving Oswald in a way other than that which was planned?
Mr. Sorrels. When I heard that they were supposed to take him out at 10 o’clock—that was the announcement and so forth on the radio and in the papers—I remarked to Captain Fritz that if I were he, I would not remove Oswald from the city hall or city jail to the county jail at an announced time; that I would take him out at 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning when there was no one around.