Chief Curry. That’s right. We felt that if an attempt was made on him, that it would be made by a group of people. Some of the threats that had been made during the night was, “this is a group of one hundred and we will take the prisoner before you get him to the county jail,” so we really expected trouble, if we had trouble, from a group of people and not an individual.
Mr. Hubert. Is it fair to state then that there was not any consideration given to the probability of a one-man action?
Chief Curry. It was not discussed at all, that I know of, in our discussions of security. It was based on the fact that we thought a group of people might try to take action.
Mr. Hubert. What I wanted to get at is this. Actually, a single-man action would, or rather protection or security against a single-man action would be virtually impossible with a mass of people around even if they were news media?
Chief Curry. That’s right.
Mr. Hubert. Is it then that there was simply no consideration of single-man action, or that it was a calculated risk?
Chief Curry. Well, it would have been a calculated risk, because actually we discussed the possibility of even some detective or some police officer that might be so emotionally aroused that he might try to take some action against the man, and we tried to be sure that the men we put there were emotionally stable men.
Mr. Hubert. Who did you discuss that with?
Chief Curry. I think it was with Chief Batchelor, and Chief Stevenson perhaps. I don’t recall exactly who I discussed all of these things with.
Mr. Hubert. Were there any pressures imposed upon you by anyone to allow the press covering of the matter that did in fact occur?